Barron's Cover

Dyan Machan

In his six years as head of brokerage Charles Schwab, Bettinger has doubled client assets to $2.4 trillion. He’s only getting started.

Up & Down Wall St.

Randall W. Forsyth

Stocks have best week in nearly two years, despite backdrop of trouble throughout the world.

Streetwise

Ben Levisohn

The market typically grows agitated before the midterm elections but rallies smartly for months thereafter. This time, trouble abroad could limit gains at home.

Feature

Andrew Bary

Weak prices for oil and natural gas have bashed energy stocks so much that some look cheap.

Feature

Jack Hough

Investors are losing patience with Amazon.com’s losses. Nor does it help that revenue growth is slowing.

Profile

Michael Shari

Snapping Up Oil Stocks

Strongly performing hedge fund FrontFour Capital used the recent selloff in energy stocks to buy some more. Here are some of its picks.

Interview

Reshma Kapadia

The CEO of Marketfield Asset Management, is upbeat on the U.S. economy and on industrial stocks.

Feature

Alexander Eule

Apple Pay Takes On Hackers, Cash

Apple Pay further locks in the position of Visa and MasterCard, the world’s top payment networks.

Barron's Penta

Robert Milburn

Private bankers at Abbot Downing compile clients’ family histories. The results are illuminating, as the Zaslows of ATD-American found out.

The Best Advice

Steve Garmhausen

Merrill Lynch advisors Kristina Van Liew and Linda Stephans help investors leave a mark on society.

Editorial Commentary

Thomas G. Donlan

There’s big money at stake in political speech, and in silencing it.

The Trader

Vito J. Racanelli

Improving economic sentiment and solid U.S. earnings reports helped to erase the previous week’s losses and lift markets around the world.

International Trader - Europe

Lawrence C. Strauss

More risk, less diversification can spell trouble for individual investors.

International Trader - Asia

Shuli Ren

Why Baidu’s Headed Up and Rival Qihoo Down

China’s largest search engine operator has adapted to smartphones while its competitor hasn’t.

The Striking Price

Steven M. Sears

A “risk-reversal” strategy can pay off when volatility rules.

Current Yield

Michael Aneiro

Market timing is particularly perilous as good investment opportunities are particularly fleeting with the end of quantitative easing.

Emerging Markets

Dimitra DeFotis

Some sophisticated hedge funds see an opportunity as the political leadership changes in 2015. It’s much too early for most investors.

Commodities Corner

Alexandra Wexler

China’s decision to slash imports will worsen the biggest glut of the fiber in history. U.S. farmers can only delay selling so long.

D.C. Current

Jim McTague

The Money Bags in Congress

Many congressional portfolios look like they could use extreme makeovers.

Economic Beat

Gene Epstein

Applied Global Macro Research’s Carsten Valgreen, who tracks the market with data that track the broad economy, sees stocks rising 5% to 8% annually over next three years.

Technology Trader

Tiernan Ray

Good earnings news from Seagate and KLA. Pandora, not so much.

Electronic Investor

Mike Hogan

Sometimes the best opportunities are right in front of investors’ eyes–like earlier-than-usual earnings calls and corporate spinoffs.

Fund of Information

Lawrence C. Strauss

One hope for the industry: mutual funds that invest in hedge funds.

ETF Focus

Lewis Braham

By weighting its bets on factors other than just size, Sprott Gold Miners improves chances for gains.

Speaking of Dividends

Shirley A. Lazo

Dividends and buybacks sweetened yields for holders of AbbVie, PulteGroup, Parker Hannifin and Hubbell.

Gadget of the Week

Alexander Eule

The iPhone 6 has a new app designed to foil hackers bent on stealing your credit-card data.

Review

Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal

Experts weigh in on what investors should expect from Facebook’s earnings report.

Preview

Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal

A recent study of academics’ theories of how to beat the market shows that most are about as accurate as a Ouija board.

Follow Up

Convergent Wealth Advisors’ David Zier found dead after apparent irregularities are discovered in a fund he ran outside the firm.