You can find original article here WealthManagement. Subscribe to our free daily WealthManagement newsletters. (Bloomberg) -- Morgan Stanley chopped pricing in half for clients trading private companies’ shares on its newly acquired EquityZen platform, undercutting competitors as it looks to expand in a growing market.  The bank lowered fees for both buyers and sellers to 2.5% from 5% for most transactions, according to a statement Thursday. That may just be the start. Jed Finn, Morgan Stanley’s h ...

Walmart (NASDAQ:WMT), a global retail and e-commerce operator, closed Thursday at $124.87, down 1.38%. The stock moved as investors weighed a solid fiscal Q4 earnings beat and robust e-commerce growth against Walmart’s cautious profit outlook and commentary on a “somewhat unstable” consumer backdrop. Investors are also balancing how guidance shapes expectations for fiscal 2026.Trading volume reached 42.1 million shares, about 34% above its three-month average of 31.4 million shares. Walmart IPO'd in 1972 an ...

What happened According to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing dated January 27, 2026, Cushing Asset Management sold 960,000 shares of Hess Midstream in the fourth quarter of 2025. The estimated transaction value was $32.28 million, based on the average unadjusted closing price during the quarter. The quarter-end value of the position decreased by $33.24 million, capturing both trading and stock price moves. What else to know The fund executed a sell, reducing its stake in Hess Midstream t ...

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It isn't easy to find bargains on the stock market these days. According to a recent analysis by FactSet, the average forward price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) for the S&P 500 index currently stands at 21.5, which is notably above the 17.6 ratio it stood at 10 years ago. So it's gotten a bit tougher to find good choices in the big haystack of equities out there, but there are still some needles in this haystack worth considering. Even better, a few of them pay generous dividends. Where to invest $1,000 right ...

Last week, the Trump administration delivered “one of the single largest deregulatory actions in U.S. history” when it ended the 2009 “endangerment finding,” which definitively and legally classified carbon dioxide as a threat to public health. This legislation fundamentally underpinned any legal authority at the federal level to restrict greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. As such, this action rescinds all emissions standards for cars and trucks effective immediately, with enormous implications ...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) surprised investors when it shared its artificial intelligence (AI) spending plans for 2026. The tech giant is budgeting $200 billion for capital expenditures this year, nearly a $70 billion increase from 2025. A large portion of Amazon's new data center capacity coming online over the next couple of years will include Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) GPUs. But a growing portion of Amazon's spending appears to be going toward another group of chipmakers, including one that investors can buy righ ...

When artificial intelligence (AI) chip maker NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) heads for the exit, investors instinctively glance at the door. In its latest 13F filing, the chip giant disclosed that it had completely exited its position in the AI-driven drug developer Recursion Pharmaceuticals (RXRX). At the end of Q3 2025, Nvidia held 7.71 million shares. The stake represented a modest slice of its expansive, meticulously managed AI portfolio. Still, the headline carried weight. Traders pushed the stock down as ...

Etsy (ETSY) stock closed nearly 10% higher on Feb. 19, after the e-commerce firm divested Depop, its fashion resale platform, to eBay (EBAY) for $1.2 billion in cash. On Thursday, Etsy reported better-than-expected per-share earnings for its fiscal Q4 as well, which helped its stock price push briefly above its 20-day moving average (MA). While this technical setup often precedes a relief rally, neither fourth-quarter release nor Depop sale warrant buying ETSY stock at current levels. More News from Bar ...

Cantor Fitzgerald significantly expanded its stake in Bitcoin (BTC) mining and AI cloud firm IREN Ltd (Nasdaq: IREN). In a Feb. 17 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the financial services firm reported purchasing 3,333,423 additional shares of IREN worth nearly $171.96 million based on average quarterly prices. The move increased the firm’s quarter-end IREN holding by roughly $124.65 million, underscoring Wall Street’s growing interest in AI cloud and virtual asset plays. Fo ...