Wall Street Placing Bets on House Flipping
Wall Street firms like KKR and Goldman Sachs are raising up their bet on high-interest, short-term home loans. Wall Street Journal reporter Ryan Dezember explains the risk and rewards, as well as lessons learned from 2007's housing crash.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8m May 15, 2018
8m
'Avengers' Scores, But Flops Hurt Movie Studios
For every movie blockbuster like 'Avengers: Infinity War', there are other big-budget movies that flop with audiences. Heard on the Street columnist Justin Lahart explains why movies that do not make the box-office grade are particularly painful to movie studios.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
10m May 14, 2018
10m
Gaming Companies Seek Subscribers to Boost Revenues
Videogame makers are planning to launch subscription services to bring gamers back to play repeatedly and launch games against other players. Heard on the Street columnist reporter Dan Gallagher explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
7m May 11, 2018
7m
The Wall Street Journal's Annual CEO Pay Report
Median pay for the biggest U.S. companies reached $12.1 million last year, a post-recession high. Wall Street Journal reporter Theo Francis reviews the numbers.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8m May 10, 2018
8m
Wall Street's Bulls Love Energy Again
After ranking among the worst performing groups in the stock market, shares of energy companies have become a favorite of investors recently, especially as oil prices have zoomed higher, hovering around $70 a barrel. Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Wursthorn explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9m May 09, 2018
9m
Sanctions on Russian Aluminum Spook Market
U.S. sanctions on a large Russian aluminum producer have send shockwaves through the commodities market and are creating headwinds on earnings at companies like Boeing and Ford. Wall Street Journal reporter Amrith Ramkumar explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8m May 08, 2018
8m
Investment Fees Deduction Is Gone. Now What?
Wall Street Journal tax reporter Laura Saunders explains options available to investors who relied on the investment fee tax deduction, recently eliminated under the new tax law.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
6m May 07, 2018
6m
Corporate Profits Pop on Lower Tax Bills
U.S. corporations are registering the best earnings season since 2011, thanks to the unusual combination of larger pretax profits and smaller tax bills. Wall Street Journal reporter Theo Francis explains that success has yet to benefit the broader economy.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
6m May 04, 2018
6m
Apple's iPhone Is Still a Cash Machine
Apple's iPhone sales rose just 3% in the last quarter, but Wall Street Journal Heard on the Street columnist Dan Gallagher explains why Wall Street is still upbeat about the tech giant.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
7m May 03, 2018
7m
Regulators Weighing New Push on Cybercurrencies
Federal regulators are determining whether widely traded cybercurrencies other than bitcoin should be considered securities and face scrutiny. Wall Street Journal reporter Dave Michaels explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9m May 02, 2018
9m
Earnings Are Up. Why Aren't Stocks?
More than half of companies in the S&P 500 have reported results and about 80% of those have exceeded Wall Street profit expectations. Heard on the Street coulmnist Charley Grant explains why stocks aren't following in an upward track.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
6m May 01, 2018
6m
Weak Dollar Pumps Corporate Results, For Now
The weaker U.S. Dollar against several foreign currencies has boosted corporate earnings but Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Eisen explains why that may not last very long.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
6m Apr 30, 2018
6m
The 'Amazon Effect' Ensnares Diapers, Detergent
Consumer-staple companies face hesitation by investors as a result of holding prices in check as a result of Amazon's pricing power, known as 'the Amazon Effect.' Wall Street Journal reporter Akane Otani explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9m Apr 27, 2018
9m
NFL Draft and Personal Finance: Managing Millions
What are the biggest personal finance mistakes athletes make when suddenly awash in millions of dollars, like some joining the National Football League? HighTower's Sports and Entertainment Managing Partner Jordan Waxman explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12m Apr 26, 2018
12m
Retirees Less Confident Amid Booming Economy
Despite a strong economy and overall stock market strength, confidence among retirees that they'll have enough money to live on is falling. Wall Street Journal reporter Anne Tergesen explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8m Apr 25, 2018
8m
Financial Markets Hamstrung By Low Liquidity
The Wall Street Journal's Gunjan Banerji says it's harder for investors to trade in a number of financial markets because liquidity has gotten worse. Liquidity is the ability for investors to buy or sell when they want.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8m Apr 24, 2018
8m
Tracking Where Millennials Settle
Tracking where millennials move to around the country could mean a lucrative investing opportunity. J.R. Whalen discusses this with Melissa Reagen of Nuveen Investments' TH Real Estate.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8m Apr 23, 2018
8m
Bitcoin Backers to SEC: Exempt Us from Oversight
The Wall Street Journal's Gabriel T. Rubin says cryptocurrency firms and their backers want a broad exemption from federal oversight. The digital coin industry has lobbied the Securities and Exchange Commission, saying oversight would hurt the growth of their business.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9m Apr 20, 2018
9m
Is Apple Music a Money-Maker for the Tech Giant?
With the iPhone in a maturing market, Apple is looking to its services business for growth. Its Apple Music streaming service has seen big growth in subscribers, but the Wall Street Journal's Dan Gallagher says that doesn't translate into big profits.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9m Apr 19, 2018
9m
Companies are Sitting on More than $2 Trillion in Cash
U.S. corporations had around 2.4 trillion dollars in cash and investments last year. The Wall Street Journal's Ben Eisen explains why that's good news for shareholders and stock market investors.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
7m Apr 18, 2018
7m
Are Stock Pickers Sour on Facebook?
Facebook was once among Wall Street's most reliable bets, along with Amazon, Netflix and Google. Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Wursthorn explains why that is changing.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
10m Apr 17, 2018
10m
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle: Be Aware of IRS Rules
Wall Street Journal tax reporter Laura Saunders offers some important tax advice to Meghan Markle, a U.S. citizen, in advance of her marriage to Prince Harry in May. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
7m Apr 16, 2018
7m
What Are the Best Travel Credit Card Perks?
As competition heats up among credit card companies, consumers seeking out travel perks and rewards have a lot of benefits to choose from. Wall Street Journal 'Middle Seat' columnist Scott McCartney calls out the most attractive rewards.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
10m Apr 13, 2018
10m
Fidelity Revamping Financial Advice Fees
Fidelity Investments is changing its fee structure for affluent clients for financial advice. Wall Street Journal reporter Sarah Krouse explains how it is one of the biggest-ever pricing shake-ups for a firm that oversees hundreds of billions in wealth held by American investors.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
6m Apr 12, 2018
6m
Lenders Relaxing Credit Rules as Home Prices Rise
As more consumers are priced out of the housing market in the face of rising price s and mortgage rates, Wall Street Journal reporter Laura Kusisto explains how lenders are adjusting credit standards.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8m Apr 11, 2018
8m
Why Investors Aren't Losing Sleep Over Market Drops
While some investors have pulled money out of the market amid the latest stretch of volatility, many others are staying on for the long haul. Wall Street Journal markets reporter Akane Otani explains the train of thought.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9m Apr 10, 2018
9m
Tax Plan: Top 20% Will Pay 87% of All Income Tax
Wall Street Journal tax reporter Laura Saunders explains how top earners in the U.S. wind up paying the lion's share of income tax this year, even though that group was among the beneficiaries of the new tax plan.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
6m Apr 09, 2018
6m
Why the Market Drop Has Yet to Improve Valuations
Heard on the Street columnist Spencer Jakab explains why recent market swings and declines have not significantly improved valuations for investors.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
7m Apr 06, 2018
7m
Midday Brief for Thursday, April 5th
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square fund facing investor redemptions. BlackRock stripping some gun-selling retailers from some planned socially conscious ETFs. Big food companies pour on the sugar to reverse cereal sales declines. J.R. Whalen reports.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1m Apr 05, 2018
1m
A Stock-Pickers Comeback? Not So Fast!
The recent success enjoyed by active mutual fund managers on Wall Street has hit a wall in the form of wild gyrations and market volatility. Wall Street Journal markets reporter Chelsey Dulaney explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
6m Apr 05, 2018
6m
Tax Plan: Can You Deduct Prepaid Property Taxes?
The debate is still raging over where taxpayers can deduct 2018 property taxes on this year's returns that they rushed to pay at the end of 2017. Wall Street Journal tax reporter Laura Saunders has answers.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
6m Apr 04, 2018
6m
How to Find Out if You're Underpaid at Work
A new Wall Street Journal interactive graphic allows you to compare salaries across hundreds of U.S. companies and view some surprising differences at companies within the same industry. Reporter Theo Francis explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9m Apr 03, 2018
9m
Market Volatility's Effect on Retirement Planning
Wells Fargo's Joe Ready discusses the outlook of investors planning for retirement in the face of the current wild swings on Wall Street.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
7m Apr 02, 2018
7m
Bullish Day Traders Roiled By Tech Selloff
Day Traders, a usually bullish set of investors willing to ride the market through dramatic moves, are growing nervous over the current volatility on Wall Street, and specifically the tech selloff. Wall Street Journal markets reporter Ben Eisen explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9m Mar 30, 2018
9m
Does Market Volatility Mean a Bear Market Lurks?
By some measurements, the current volatility on Wall Street is an indicator that a bear market is closer than we think. But the signs aren't always clear. Wall Street Journal reporter Asjylyn Loder explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8m Mar 29, 2018
8m
What's Changed Since the 2008 Recession?
How has the world changed since the end of the economic downturn in 2008? What's stayed the same? Wall Street Journal reporter Cezary Podkul explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9m Mar 28, 2018
9m
Is the Fed Too Conservative in Growth Forecasts?
Many economists feel the Federal Reserve has been too conservative in its economic growth projections, considering the stimulus about to hit the U.S. economy. Heard on the Street columnist Justin Lahart discusses the Fed's conservative thinking.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9m Mar 27, 2018
9m
Now You Can Try High-Frequency Trading
A crowdsourcing startup gives the public a chance to try their hand at high-frequency trading, a controversial form of ultra-fast trading. Wall Street Journal markets reporter Alexander Osipovich explains the risks.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8m Mar 26, 2018
8m
Missed Tax Payments to Come Off Credit Reports
Millions of Americans will soon see missed tax payments removed from their credit reports, increasing their chances of qualifying for bank loans. Wall Street Journal reporter AnnaMaria Andriotis explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9m Mar 23, 2018
9m
Consumer Borrowing Costs Are Rising. Thanks, Fed!
Interest rates on everything from mortgages to car loans are likely to move higher after the Federal Reserve announced Wednesday it will raise short-term rates by a quarter-percentage point. Wall Street Journal reporter David Harrison explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
6m Mar 22, 2018
6m
Special Fed Coverage: Powell Press Conference
The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday it will increase interest rates to a range of 1.50%-1.75%. Fed Chairman Jay Powell, in his first news conference, addressed topics such the number of interest rate increases expected this year, and whether wages are growing fast enough.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
7m Mar 21, 2018
7m
Facebook Has a Trust Problem Among Its Users
The current scrutiny surrounding Facebook and the unauthorized use of users' data has, in Wall Street Journal Heard om the Street columnist Dan Gallagher's opinion, created a trust issue among the social media company's users and advertisers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9m Mar 21, 2018
9m
Higher Deposit Rates Coming to Bank Accounts?
The likelihood of several interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve means many banks are likely to raise their deposit rates on savings accounts and certificates of deposit. Wall Street Journal reporter Christina Rexrode explains why not all banks are likely to be on board.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
7m Mar 20, 2018
7m
Midday Brief for Monday, March 19th
Trump steps up attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Austin, Texas police investigation a fourth explosion. Congress racing to pass a spending bill before the Saturday deadline. J.R. Whalen reports.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1m Mar 19, 2018
1m
Protecting Your Retirement Savings From Your Kids
Baby Boomers and other older Americans have trillions of dollars in retirement funds saved up, but their own generosity can be responsible for their adult children draining their nest egg. Voya Financial's James Nichols offers advice for protecting your retirement savings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9m Mar 19, 2018
9m
Trading at the NYSE is Sleepy, Until Just Before the Close
The Wall Street Journal's Alexander Osipovich says much of the trading action at the New York Stock Exchange has moved to the final minutes. A big reason is index funds, whose values depend on prices determined at the closing auction.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9m Mar 16, 2018
9m
Google Bans Cryptocurrency Ads
Google, following Facebook's lead, says it will ban all ads for cryptocurrencies and other speculative financial products across its advertising platforms beginning in June. Wall Street Journal tech reporter Douglas MacMillan explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8m Mar 15, 2018
8m
Wall Street: Don't Let Calm Markets Fool You
March's relatively calm market performance on Wall Street as compared to February's periods of volatility could mislead some into thinking calmness is here to stay. Wall Street Journal Heard on the Street deputy editor Spencer Jakab explains.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9m Mar 14, 2018
9m
Market Volatility: Is This the End for Goldilocks?
Investors are assessing their tolerance of risk in the face of increased market volatility, despite a strong February jobs report. Wall Street Journal reporter Riva Gold explains why this could be characterized the end of the 'Goldilocks' market.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8m Mar 13, 2018
8m
U.S. Household at New Records: Not All Good News?
The stock market and property prices helped push U.S. household net worth to values approaching $100 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2017. Wall Street Journal economics reporter Harriet Torry explain why the strong numbers have some people concerned.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
6m Mar 12, 2018
6m