Right now, you don’t want to burn any bridges anywhere, as you don’t know how things will unfold. Be professional and be kind. But you also have every right to set boundaries and to protect yourself!
When Meta Platforms Inc. reports earnings on Wednesday afternoon, the social media giant will face a high hurdle to satisfy anxious investors.
One of the best-known market trends, the “sell in May” effect is backed by decades of historical performance: Investing in a fund that debuted in 1993 and tracks the S&P 500 during the May-October period yielded a cumulative return of 171%, compared to a 731% gain for November-April, an analysis from Bespoke Investment Group found.
The Treasury Department said it’s now looking at “enhancements” to its buybacks of older US government debt securities, just weeks after Scott Bessent hinted at the potential to beef up the program in the event of any major market turmoil.
Morgan Stanley is launching a private equity fund for its widest audience yet — investors wielding a few million dollars — as asset managers help broader masses into the once-exclusive realm.
The real estate industry is at the forefront of a lobbying blitz to sway Congress to preserve the carried interest tax break that President Donald Trump wants to abolish in a giant tax bill pending in Congress.
Citadel Securities is urging the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new leadership to examine a list of what it argues are emerging and mounting risks, including opaque trading in so-called private rooms and the push by US stock markets to operate around the clock.
The fintech revolution has opened doors to optimizing home office operations, but the question remains: How can wealth managers effectively harness their tech stack to reduce fragmentation and simplify processes related to vendor workflow management?
Sharp losses in investment grade (IG) corporate bonds this month have reminded us of the potential advantages of rules-based fixed income ladders.
Recession risk remains elevated, likely only receding with a fuller "pivot" in tariff-related uncertainty. While every recession is unique, history can provide a guide.
Think of the drafting process like investing—scouts meticulously rank players based on their strength, speed, flexibility, and mental acuity, much like we analyze the economy and financial markets to shape our outlook. The true value of these players might take years to unfold...
The markets rebounded strongly last week, holding ground despite the lingering cloud of uncertainty surrounding tariffs and trade negotiations. Importantly, while tariffs and dollar weakness are stirring short-term concerns, long-term inflation expectations remain firmly anchored, setting a strong case for the Federal Reserve to begin cutting rates.
As we have written…The Era of Easy Everything is ending. Part of this involves bringing inflation back to the Federal Reserve’s target of 2.0%. We could debate that number, but the Fed is getting closer.
While most market watchers have focused on the wildly yo-yoing stock market over the last few weeks, the Treasury bond market has been flashing warnings.
Small-caps have suffered in early 2025, but increased market breadth could support a recovery.
Register now and join AllianceBernstein’s fixed-income experts as they discuss how to navigate the current economic landscape characterized by these issues.
Barry Ritholtz, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, breaks down the current market environment and discusses key ideas from his latest book, How Not to Invest. VettaFi’s Todd Rosenbluth offers highlights from the 2025 etf.com Awards.
Perhaps it’s time to improve upon indexing? Join the experts at Fidelity to learn more.
Ultimately, advisors should choose a rebalancing strategy that best serves their client’s needs without putting undue strain on their own operations.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer David Solomon said he believed that activity in mergers and public listings will find a comfortable level despite uncertainty that’s led to a slowdown across investment banks.
US stocks traded steady on Tuesday as traders digested a slew of corporate earnings results and parsed comments from the White House about trade negotiations.
Cryptocurrency investors waded back into the market last week, riding a surge in Bitcoin.
There are plenty of frustrated silver bugs. Gold is outperforming once again, and they wonder when silver will finally catch up.
In this video, Chuck Carnevale, co-founder of FAST Graphs, aka Mr. Valuation, evaluates three major defense companies—General Dynamics (GD), Lockheed Martin (LMT), and RTX (formerly Raytheon/United Technologies)—through the lens of FAST Graphs, a fundamentals-based research tool. He emphasizes that this analysis should be just the beginning of deeper due diligence.
Social Security does face challenges. The trust fund reserves, built up during years when payroll taxes exceeded payouts, are projected to run dry around 2033. If Congress does nothing, benefits will need to be cut by about 20%. That’s serious, but it’s a solvency issue, not a scam.
If you want to be a superstar producer, who operates as a category-of-one business, then you must never accept the industry “norms” that are really barriers holding you back from achieving your full potential.
The sole pursuit of shareholder value — i.e. of maximizing stock price — leads not to a focus on creating the greatest possible value for the firm’s customers, but to a focus on financial metrics and financial engineering.
Europe’s automakers were huge beneficiaries of globalization, but now the hangover has arrived — and Porsche AG and Volvo Car AB look particularly sickly.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has a plan to prop up a government-bond market destabilized by Washington’s chaotic economic policies: Let banks load up on federal debt.
The panic over the years has inevitably influenced policy even if heeding cooler heads would offer reassurance. Which brings us to the current US administration.
American leaders are now engaged in an effort to reverse the loss of manufacturing. The hope is to restore a path to prosperity for struggling regions and their residents. Tariffs are being employed liberally as a means to this end.
Peak earnings season kicks off this week, with 7,600 companies, or 70% of our equity universe expected to report over the next three weeks.
Although President Trump has said he has no intention of firing Fed Chair Powell, the Trump administration may be testing the laws underpinning Fed independence.
The Fed’s in a bind. Policy uncertainty is high. And tariffs are likely to hit the U.S. economy with a “stagflation-lite” impulse in coming quarters—weaker growth and higher prices.
Local currency rates and FX screen very attractive, while hard currency credit is neutral+.
With uncertainty rising and credit markets flashing early warning signs, RBA explains why now might be the time to sidestep risk—and where investors can still find attractive, high-quality returns in fixed income.
President Donald Trump’s recent executive order revives many of the SDI’s ambitions, albeit with a modern twist. His January 27 directive launched what he first called an “Iron Dome for America,” later rebranded as the “Golden Dome.”
High-yield bonds may be an attractive choice for investors looking to rebalance portfolios.
Unexpected wider and larger-scope tariff announcements have sent tremors through bond and equity markets, resulting in a brisk sell-off that signals investors’ caution.
Join the experts at Allspring Global Investments for a robust Q&A covering equities, concentration, and diversification.
We have good and bad news for investors who want to know whether the stock market will soar, stall, or plummet. First, the good news. This article presents a market path for what lies ahead. Unfortunately, the “right” path lies among three likely scenarios.
Gold has been a high-performing investment over the prior year. It has rallied on the back of falling short-term interest rates and recently increased uncertainty about global trade and economic growth.
On this episode of the “ETF of the Week” podcast, VettaFi’s Head of Research Todd Rosenbluth talked about the the WisdomTree Floating Rate Treasury Fund (USFR) with Money Life host Chuck Jaffe. The pair covered a range of topics related to the fund, providing investors with a deeper understanding of the ETF.
In this article, I will discuss another advantage of using the actuarial approach for retirement planning — helping your clients determine when they can afford to make big-ticket item purchases.
Emerging-market stocks rose for a second day, with the benchmark gauge heading for a three-week high amid optimism over corporate earnings.
Private equity firms are scouring for investment opportunities in European defense, chasing the once shunned sector in an effort to benefit from a historic switch to military expansion in the region.
The “Sell America” trade that gripped markets this month has left a potentially lasting dent in investors’ willingness to hold the US government’s longest-maturity debt, a mainstay of its deficit-financing toolkit.
The last time Big Tech delivered earnings, Donald Trump had just started his second term, stocks were soaring on expectations of a pro-growth agenda and investors’ main worry was how long it would take companies to convert their artificial intelligence spending into profits.
It’s harder to make it as a professional stock picker than it used to be, which is saying a lot because it was never easy.
US economic policy is still, let’s say, lacking in strategic clarity. It continues to oscillate; where it will end up is hard to say. But events have yielded some new information: President Donald Trump is alert to “yippy” financial markets.
