With bonds offering their juiciest yields in years, we queried some wealth management pros on where they see the best fixed-income opportunities now: David Rossmiller, Bessemer Trust: We like longer b...
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Retailers Are Cutting Jobs Instead of Hiring Help Ahead of the Holidays
The holiday season is usually a reason for stores to staff up to handle the surge of shoppers. But Friday’s jobs report showed a concerning trend: Retailers are shedding workers. According to the Bure...
Stocks Rise on Cooling Inflation and Fed Moderation. That Doesn’t Mean the Bear Market Is Over.
Christmas came early this year for the stock market. Is there a Grinch waiting to ruin it? It was a week of surprises both good—Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell essentially confirming a smaller ...
Slowing Inflation Isn’t Good for All Stocks. The Challenge That Tesla and Others Could Be Facing.
Inflation may have peaked, which could be bad news for stocks that have benefited from higher prices. It has taken time, but the market has finally coalesced around the idea that inflation won’t get h...
Is the Housing Market Headed for a Big Crash? What’s Ahead for Real Estate.
Todd Clark and his wife, Jocelynn Wilde-Clark, have lived through the ups and downs of the housing market in the time of pandemic. In the summer of 2021, as Covid produced frenzied home buying, the co...
Powell Will Offer a New Mantra: Slow and Steady
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will have an opportunity on Wednesday to lay the groundwork for where the central bank is headed when policy makers meet next month—and he’ll likely use it to ma...
Black Friday Has Lost Its Punch for Retailers and the Economy
This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. Black Friday Said What? Talking Points BMO Capital MarketsNo...
Stock Market Looks Poised to Rally as Bond Yield Falls
Text size Michael Nagle/Bloomberg The worst may be over for the stock market. Key equity indexes continued their autumn rally, and there could be more gains before the end of the year, helped by conti...
New-Home Sales Surge. It’s Still a Mixed Picture for Housing.
Text size Sales of new homes rose in October. Here: completed and under construction new homes in Trappe, Maryland. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Sales of new homes unexpectedly rose in October, pai...
The Fed Minutes Are Today. Here’s What to Watch.
Federal Reserve officials have been laying the groundwork in recent weeks for the possibility that the central bank will ease off its aggressive monetary-policy tightening path and raise interest rate...
It’s Time for the Stock Market to Worry About Recession
The stock market is so over the Federal Reserve—but that doesn’t mean it’s out of the woods just yet. Attention is now turning to the U.S. economy—and whether it sinks into recession will determine if...
FTX Sends Crypto Reeling. The Whales Move in to Profit.
Cryptocurrency markets have been slammed by the sudden bankruptcy of FTX. But amid the carnage, some big traders—whales—were buying. Bitcoin the largest crypto, was plumbing two-year lows at $16,600 o...
Fed Tightening Is Having More Impact Than You Might Think
We’ve learned a lot about the transmission of disease in the past few years. Ideas, good and bad, are spread similarly. Robert Shiller, the Yale University Nobel laureate, wrote in Irrational Exuberan...
Week’s Best: What the Elections Mean for Investors
So, who won? With most of the election drama now resolved, what will the divided legislature mean for tax policy, the health of the markets, and other financial issues? We put those questions to a han...
13 Ways to Invest in India, the World’s Fastest-Growing Major Economy
India, home to more than 1.4 billion people, has long been a country with great promise and owner-led businesses accustomed to generating large amounts of cash. But India’s rise has been fitful, and o...
Schwab’s Liz Ann Sonders Sees Trouble Still Ahead. Where to Invest Now.
Though the U.S. stock market looks healthier than it did during its rough patch over the summer, Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders sees potential trouble still ahead, especial...
The Stock Market Is on a Tear. It’s Almost Time to Sell the Rally.
The stock market has seen a major rally recently. Another move lower looks likely. The S&P 500 closed Tuesday about 12% above its lowest close of the year, 3577, hit in early October. The main dr...
Ray Dalio, Founder of Hedge Fund Giant Bridgewater, Sees More Pain Ahead
Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates in his Manhattan apartment in 1975 and grew it into a hedge fund colossus—with about $150 billion in assets—through astute analysis of macroeconomic trends. Al...
A Berkshire Hathaway Bright Spot: Energy. Here Are the Numbers.
Warren Buffett likes energy. Berkshire Hathaway now owns some $58 billion of Chevron and Occidental Petroleum securities. It isn’t Berkshire’s largest holding; that would be insurance, led by auto ins...
What the Stock Market and the Midterm Elections Have Common.
Investing and politics go together about as well as mango chutney and burned hair, and we prefer to focus on the stocks and leave the pontificating about the state of the nation to the Beltway pundits...
Ray Dalio Sees More Pain Ahead in This Debt Cycle
Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates in his Manhattan apartment in 1975 and grew it into a hedge fund colossus—with about $150 billion in assets—through astute analysis of macroeconomic trends. Al...
What’s Stopping Companies from Pulling Supply Chains Out of China
Text size Despite the trade war and Covid-19 lockdowns, China accounts for 35% of total U.S. containerized imports. Mario Tama/Getty Images About the authors: Christopher S. Tang is a University Disti...