For many years, dividend stocks were one of the few places where investors could find decent yields in a world of ultralow rates. A 10-year Treasury bond was dealing out an emaciated 1.3% a year ago, ...
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The Stock Market Is in a ‘Super Bubble,’ Renowned Investor Jeremy Grantham Says
Text size Jeremy Grantham, shown in 2010. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Famed investor Jeremy Grantham says the stock market is in the midst of a “super bubble.” That means prices are even more out of whack ...
Bonds enter first bear market in at least 30 years
The bond market has entered its first bear market in more than 30 years — and possibly much longer. The Bloomberg Global Aggregate Total Return Index has now dropped more than 20% below its peak, the ...
Silver is at a 2-year low, but it’s not gold that will determine what happens next, this analyst says
A tie can feel like a loss if you were in line for a victory. Conversely the draw can be celebrated if you were facing defeat. After a number of sessions when early gains evaporated, traders will be r...
Why Renowned Investor Jeremy Grantham Says Stocks Are in a ‘Super Bubble’
Text size Jeremy Grantham, shown in 2010. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Famed investor Jeremy Grantham says the stock market is in the midst of a “super bubble.” That means prices are even more out of whack ...
September Could Be Even Worse for Stocks. How to Survive the Downturn.
Text size Traders are hoping the Friday jobs report will be cooler than expected, which would ease the pressure on the Fed to push rates up so quickly. NYSE The stock market could have a tempestuous S...
Jeremy Grantham warns ‘tragedy’ looms as stock ‘superbubble’ may burst
A “superbubble” appears dangerously near its “final act” after the recent rally in U.S. stocks lured some investors back into the market just ahead of potential “tragedy,” according to Jeremy Grantham...
Stock-market summer rally ran out of steam. What history says about September.
A summer U.S. stock-market rally off lows for the year seen in June shuddered to a halt in August, leaving major indexes with monthly losses as investors braced for the start of a traditionally unplea...
Opinion: Don’t forget that the big money in stocks is usually made during down markets
The VanEck Semiconductors ETF SMH, -0.90% is down 12%. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.29% is down 9%, and the S&P 500 SPX, -0.47%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.58% and the Russel...
Morgan Stanley warns this corner of the credit market could be first to implode as interest rates rise
Now that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has made it abundantly clear that the Fed has no plans to slow the pace of interest-rate hikes, some bond-market experts are warning that the most specu...
The stock market typically bottoms before the end of a Fed rate-hike cycle. Here’s how to make that bet pay off.
A lot of money can be made betting on when the Federal Reserve will “pivot” — that is, take its foot at least partially off the rate-hike gas pedal. Yet a lot of money can also be lost, as we saw on A...
Stock Market Today: Dow Futures Jump as Jackson Hole Selloff Eases
Text size Wall Street saw its worst day in months last Friday. Angels Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Stocks were set to snap a two-day losing streak ignited by hawkish comments from Federal Reserve Chairm...
How much do I need to retire? 11 big retirement questions answered
I spend a significant amount of time reading the viewpoints of people who are planning for retirement or who are already retired. My frequent reaction: What are they thinking? When I review retiremen...
This asset class is poised to rise 38% because markets overestimate risk of global recession, Goldman says
Still reeling from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s higher-for-longer remarks last week, riskier asset like equities look set for another battering, on Monday. “You can’t have the stock market collapse ov...
2-year Treasury yield hits highest level since 2007 as bond selloff continues
Treasury yields continued to climb on Monday, with the 2-year reaching levels not seen since November 2007, as bonds tumbled in the wake of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s hawkish remarks at ...
These money and investing tips can help you roll with the Fed’s inflation-fighting punches
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U.S. Stocks Poised Fall on Monday
Stocks are poised to open lower on Wall Street on Monday. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images Text size U.S. stocks are poised to open lower on Monday as investors look toward Friday’s report on August jobs...
U.S. stock futures sink following Friday’s Wall Street rout
U.S. stock-index futures plunged Sunday, after Wall Street sank Friday following hawkish comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that the fight against stubborn inflation would continue, ...
Bitcoin Has Stumbled. That’s Not a Good Sign for Stocks.
Text size Bitcoin’s drop isn’t much of a surprise. Interest rates have risen in the past few weeks as markets worry that the Federal Reserve would keep lifting rates to combat high inflation. Risk ass...
Opinion: The fundamentals of the stock market have improved markedly, but few investors have noticed
You’ll know that the bear market in stocks is nearing an end when investors remind anyone who’ll listen that equities are fairly or even undervalued. We’re not there yet. When bull market sentiment is...
How retirees can survive a bear market
Wait until the VIX gets a lot lower before putting any sideline cash back to work in the stock market. That’s the implication of a 2019 academic study in the Journal of Financial Economics. Entitled “...
If you need one more reason why stocks will likely lose money in September, here it is.
Finally, investors have a good reason for why the U.S. stock market will suffer above-average volatility and below-average performance this month: It’s the Fed. I say “finally” because market analysts...