Stocks and Bonds Are Sending Different Messages. One of Them Is Wrong.

Stocks have embraced the concept of a soft landing so far in 2023. Bonds are trading like a recession is nigh. Only one can be right. What soft landing, we can hear you say? The Dow Jones Industrial A...

The 12 Best Income Investments for 2023, According to Barron’s

While it might not be a feast now for income-oriented investors, it’s a lot better than the famine that prevailed for much of the past decade. Yields on a range of bond and bond-related investments ro...

The Best Income Investing Ideas for 2023

While it might not be a feast now for income-oriented investors, it’s a lot better than the famine that prevailed for much of the past decade. Yields on a range of bond and bond-related investments ro...

Many investors are betting on an inflation peak. Here’s why a former hedge-fund manager says they’re wrong.

Investors are waking up to big trouble in big China. Stock futures and oil prices are falling after angry anti-COVID zero protests swept the country. “This is a sudden powerful new distraction for mar...

Stocks Are Sinking and Rates Are Rising. It’s Painful, But We’re Heading for Normal.

Stocks and bonds are tumbling. Housing has weakened. And I haven’t heard a word about nonfungible cartoon monkey tokens in maybe three months. Strategists are now turning to truly bizarre assets—two I...

Investors Betting On Persistent Inflation Can Cash In Using This Trade on TLT Stock

Inflation has continued to remain well above Federal Reserve and analyst expectations. This has driven expectations for further interest-rate hikes. X While Treasury yields have surged — with the 20-y...

Bonds Are in a Bear Market. How to Play What Happens Next.

Text size A shift in Federal Reserve monetary policy has helped ratchet up bond yields, hitting prices. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Red-hot inflation and rising interest rates have hammered the globa...

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 Best Income Investments Now

Income-oriented investors, it’s time to celebrate. There are suddenly many more opportunities—in areas ranging from junk bonds to real estate investment trusts—after the bear markets in stocks and bon...

A rough 4 months for stocks: S&P 500 books the worst start to a year since 1939. Here’s what pros say you should do now.

To say that it has been a perilous stretch for bullish stock investors on Wall Street lately is a bit of an understatement. Marked by stomach-churning volatility and bruising losses in once-popular te...

Why Was the Stock Market Down Today? A Fed Official’s Speech Tanked the Market.

Text size Federal Reserve Gov. Lael Brainard said she expects policy to return “to a more neutral position later this year.” Drew Angerer/Getty Images Tech stocks and bond markets both sold off on Tue...

Treasuries Are Selling Off. Blame Powell’s Comments on Half-Point Rate Hikes.

Fed chief Jerome Powell, shown Monday at a conference in Washington, D.C., said ‘nothing’ would prevent the central bank from raising rates by a half-point at a coming meeting if needed. S...

Why Almost Every Bond Fund Is Down This Year

The Index of Bonds on The Screen. getty If you own a bond fund, it’s probably down in recent months. Let’s talk about why and walk through three popular fixed-income ideas from worst to first. We’ll s...

What ETFs are retail investors loading up amid stock market volatility? Here’s what some are doing (and aren’t).

Hello there! Got volatility? We bet you do as the Federal Reserve signaled on Wednesday that interest rate increases in 2022 are its main priority. There is nothing new there, as investors had expecte...

This Popular Bond Fund Is A Retirement Disaster

Retirement disaster getty “Daddy. Can you come play with me in the playroom?” my four-year-old asked. “Sure. I’ll be right in,” I said. “Once I get done unloading the dishwasher. Would you like to hel...