Retired? 2 Stocks You Should Consider Buying

If you’re retired, you’ve likely shifted from building your nest egg to trying to live off of your savings. That means you’ll want to look at stocks that are relatively safe and pay a generous dividend. Investors have punished the stocks of giant U.S. utility Southern Company (NYSE:SO) and packaged-food specialist General Mills (NYSE:GIS) for […]

What the stock market’s most crucial week of the year tells us about the road ahead

Stock-market investors navigated, virtually unscathed, a gauntlet of central-bank gatherings, a historic summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean Kim Jong Un, and flaring trade tensions. The S&P 500 index SPX, -0.10% ended the week essentially flat, managing the narrowest of weekly gains, up 0.02% to 2,779.66, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, […]