OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell shares in the company at a $500 billion valuation, propelling the ChatGPT owner past Elon Musk’s SpaceX to become the world’s largest startup.

Signs of caution are emerging around high-flying tech shares. But that’s just making it cheaper to use options to bet on further gains in the stocks, Bank of America’s derivatives strategists say.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. reached a deal to buy Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s petrochemical business for about $9.7 billion in cash.

Earlier this year, GMO’s Asset Allocation Team invested a sizeable 13% of its flagship unconstrained Benchmark-Free Allocation Strategy into the GMO Alternative Allocation Strategy (ALTA). ALTA provides daily liquidity and seeks to deliver equity-like returns with sensible and competitive fees, allowing for realistic return forecasts and prudent risk management.

AI technology has the potential to profoundly improve industries and markets, but not without some risks—like valuation and profitability—that investors should be aware of.

Last week, my colleague wrote about Anchoring Bias, a psychological phenomenon that attaches a particular price or specific yield level to a bond.

LPL Research analyzes recent market performance as Fed expectations, strong economic data, government shutdown concerns and more continue to have an impact.

Market sentiment has come a long way since the Tariff Tantrum. Earlier this year, the VIX volatility index shot up into the 60s, a fear level previously seen in such episodes as the October 1987 crash and during 2008’s rolling bank insolvencies.

Nomi Prins brings rare credibility to these conversations. She holds a PhD in international strategic studies with a specialization in political economy, and her career spans some of the most powerful financial institutions in the world.

In this video, Chuck Carnevale, co-founder of FAST Graphs, dives deep into Comcast (CMCSA) to evaluate whether today’s low stock price represents risk or opportunity.

Oil prices are notoriously difficult to forecast. Production can be volatile, and the global oil supply chain is complex.

A report that Boeing Co. is planning to build a clean-sheet design single-aisle aircraft to replace the 737, an aircraft platform first created in the 1960s, isn’t a surprise, but it does mark a milestone for the company’s recovery.

Advisors who want to grow a family office business need to make sure they have the expertise and resources to service the far-ranging needs of wealthy families. Some wealthy families are looking for a “one-stop solution.

The key is to stop trying to be everywhere and start showing up where your ideal clients already are.

Venture Global (VG), which went public earlier this year, is a rapidly expanding, low-cost producer of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG). Its business centers around liquefaction, which is the process of cooling natural gas into LNG, making it possible to ship overseas.

Tesla Inc. shares climbed 33% in September as investors rallied around Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk’s renewed focus on the company. That’s drawing attention to whether the key third-quarter sales figures coming later this week will be strong enough to sustain the momentum.

Partnering with a CDFA can be a practical way to strengthen financial outcomes for clients and reduce the risk of costly oversights to both you and your client.

When Amazon.com Inc. recruited longtime Microsoft Corp. product chief Panos Panay in 2023 to run its devices division, his new colleagues thought the e-commerce giant was preparing to take its consumer gadget line upscale.

Here are some key areas of focus as you think about solidifying your current team or preparing to transition and join a new team.

Inflation gave markets exactly what they wanted last week—no surprises.

When it comes to managing risk, OCIO providers can’t afford to overlook history.

Consumption spending surprised to the upside once again in August, something we had already seen from last week’s release of retail and food services sales during the same month.

In what represents a positive trend for investors engaged with ETFs such as the Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) and the Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQQM), the AI adoption conversation continues gaining importance and momentum.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s $20 billion debt commitment for the record-breaking buyout of Electronic Arts Inc. is classic leveraged financing, which might seem surprising in a world overrun with private credit.

Changing CEOs won’t change the fact that the decision to pursue a merger lies with BNSF and Berkshire. Buffett and his management team are unlikely to be impressed by threats of proxy fights nor shareholder-activist bullies.

For elite receivers, it’s not just about making the catch, it’s about what they do next. The same is true for financial advisors who switch broker-dealers. If you are considering a move, ask yourself: Am I just trying to make the catch? Or am I ready to take off down the field?

Over 60% of small cap investors use passive funds, but we strongly believe this is a missed opportunity, as small caps have consistently been one of the most reliable sources of alpha available in the public markets.

While it may seem that way at extremes, momentum tends to exhaust, and reversals or corrections become more probable. The RSI gives us a real-time gauge of when a trend may be vulnerable to a pullback or turn.

The latest read on the US labor market will be out this Friday, October 3, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases September nonfarm payrolls, unemployment, average hourly earnings and other metrics.

Always intense, the perennial debate over whether equities are too richly valued has become even more fervent of late.

Will Rhind, Founder & CEO of GraniteShares, dives into their YieldBOOST lineup of ETFs and offers perspective on the growing demand for options-based ETF strategies overall. Zeno Mercer, Senior Research Analyst at VettaFi, breaks down one of the hottest segments in the market: artificial intelligence ETFs. He covers fund flows, performance trends, and the key drivers behind investor interest.

Though solar is now a boogeyman in the culture wars, the truth is that it is both among the cheapest forms of energy (even without subsidies) and one of the fastest segments of the energy industry to bring additional capacity onto the grid. We believe solar and wind will continue to be an important component of the American energy supply.

Scripts are a great start but the end goal is to rip them up and own your voice — because that’s the only part of the client experience no firm can dictate, and the only part that truly builds trust.

To see real results, your content must be relevant to the people you want to reach, consistent enough to build familiarity, and valuable enough to earn trust. Done right, it becomes the foundation of your marketing strategy and a long-term driver of growth.

European stocks were set to wrap up September with the best performance since 2019, as optimism around resilient US economic growth and lower interest rates lifted risk appetite.

Sometime in the coming months, the impact of US tariffs will begin to be felt in India — and it will not be pretty.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is the latest issuer attempting to fit private credit assets into a retail-friendly exchange-traded fund vehicle.

The Fed's extraordinary stimulus since the pandemic has fueled one of the broadest waves of speculation in history, from expensive equity valuations, historically tight credit spreads, and the ongoing bubble in cryptocurrencies, all pointing to excess liquidity.

JFLX charges a 45 basis point net fee for its investors. The strategy, per its prospectus, is empowered to invest across the debt spectrum. Its managers can shift its active strategy toward markets or sectors as market conditions change.

Back in the day, the arrival of the postman was a big deal. E-mail and texting existed only in the dreams of technologists, so people communicated with one another by writing letters.

Even as rate cuts occupy center stage in the 24-hour financial news cycle, surprise inflation could strike anytime. In the current macro environment, inflation could stem from the constant wildcard of tariff policy.

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From managing exposure to leveraging growth opportunities—core active portfolio managers can unlock the full potential of emerging markets.

Economic data are all over the place. GDP keeps growing in spite of signs of weakness in the labor market. Tariff policy is volatile, immigration has slowed, monetary policy tightened in 2023-24, with the M2 measure of money declining and “real” short-term interest rates consistently higher than at any time since 2010.

On this week’s edition of Market Week in Review, Senior Investment Strategist and Head of Canadian Strategy, BeiChen Lin, assessed the health of the U.S. economy. He also explained why the Swiss National Bank held the line on monetary policy and discussed the potential market impacts of a U.S. government shutdown.

Goodbye summer, hello fall! As the sun sets on another season, we’re swapping beach days and backyard barbeques for crisp mornings, vibrant foliage, football weekends, and everything pumpkin spice.

As expected, the Federal Reserve cut its policy rate on Sept. 17 by a quarter of a percentage point. Officials had signaled the move in advance and Chair Jerome Powell explained the reasoning well enough.

My reasons are simple. The debt pile is unfathomably massive, and it’s accelerating. Fiscal imbalances are widening, and monetary policy is being constrained. The Fed can’t raise rates aggressively without bankrupting the government, but it also can’t make deep cuts without tanking the dollar.

For an industry that’s only just getting started, there’s a lot of hype around humanoid robots.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his fellow central bankers are stuck between a rock and a hard place – and he knows it.