Stock Market Today: Dow up 200 points as stocks head for weekly gain
Oil futures climbed on Friday, with the U.S. crude benchmark up by more than 5% for the week on ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukraine, but natural-gas prices eased back after a five-session run up.
West Texas Intermediate crude for January delivery rose 38 cents,
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Read More'Employers aren’t responsible for my retirement,' say most (75%) employees
Nearly half of U.S. households (48%) disagree with the statement, “My employer is responsible for providing for my retirement,” about the same as in 2011, according to financial benchmarking firm Hearts & Wallets (H&W) research of nearly 6,000 U.S. households, Attitudes & Sentiment 2024: Goals, Beliefs and Needs in an Era of Rising Financial Confidence.
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Read MoreUS retirement plans: Key changes announced for 2025
Starting 2025, Americans can contribute more to retirement accounts. The Internal Revenue Service detailed the increases in its annual cost-of-living adjustments for pension plans and other retirement accounts. Workers who participate in 403(b) and the federal government’s Thrift Savings Plan will also be able to increase their annual contribution to $23,500 in 2025, up from $23,000 in 2024.
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Read MoreWarren Buffett Claims To Not 'Time The Market,' But His Cash Horde Tells A Different Story
For decades, famed value investor Warren Buffett has insisted that he does not try to “time the market.” But, his recent sales could serve as a warning sign for investors amid a period of protracted valuations.
What Happened: Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc BRK BRK has gradually wound down its largest positions over the last year.
US markets end higher as traders mull Invidia numbers
The major US indexes closed higher after choppy trading on Thursday, with the blue-chip Dow and the S&P 500 hitting one-week high.
Dow Jones Industrial Average gains were aided by cloud company Salesforce’s advances after three brokerages lifted their price targets on the stock.
Shares of Wall Street’s biggest company,
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Read MoreThe Burst
1 Hot Stock Passes Super Stringent Screen
In the research rooms of investment management firms, returns on invested capital are keenly focused on. Buffett often speaks of this metric as a proxy for what return to expect over the long haul.
So, I decided to run a screen to find stocks with ROIC percentages north of 15%. That’s a high hurdle all by itself that most companies will fail to meet.
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Read MoreThe Ivy
Did The Market Already Bottom?
If Goldman Sachs is right, the market moves late last week were sufficient to alleviate selling pressure, at least for now. They identified a key line in the sand around 5250 where selling pressure would sharply drop over the coming week from the sell orders that had been slated.
It’s also been a tailwind to see big institutions,
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Read MoreThe Spotlight
1 Stock That Will Pay You Monthly
When Charlie Munger was a boy, he described an encounter he had with an older man who seemed to work very little but had a lot of money. Curious what the man did he questioned the line of business he was in and discovered to his surprise he “rendered dead horses.” What Charlie learned from the conversation was less about horses and more about how one man got rich because he was the only player in that market.