The US economy keeps surprising the doomsayers, and Tuesday’s data is just latest the example.
Longtime Japan watchers could be forgiven for getting a bad feeling upon learning that a government-backed fund is shelling out $6 billion to take control of a domestic technology company.
The Bank of England surprised financial markets last week by raising its policy rate by half a percentage point instead of the expected quarter. The bigger surprise was that so many investors and analysts were surprised.
While I was watching Apple’s presentation, Meta’s Quest Pro (which I own for research purposes) suddenly started to remind me of Microsoft PCs – made by engineers for engineers, where the Vision Pro is created by humans for humans.
During the postwar Bretton Woods years, the price of gold was pegged at $35 an ounce, but after Richard Nixon severed the dollar’s final link to gold in 1971, prices soared to more than $800 an ounce by 1980.
We need help in collaboration and being honest with one another.
What are the five non-financial areas advisors can help clients focus on to de-risk their business and better secure funding from lenders?
Is there an evidence-based way to coach clients that is likely to help their proclivity to act emotionally?
Will this yield curve inversion lead to continued economic growth and avoid a recession?
How many multibillion-dollar settlements does 3M Co. need before it can move on from its myriad legal woes? Definitely more than one, and therein lies the problem with owning shares of the maker of Post-it notes, automotive adhesives, and N95 masks.
An activist shareholder’s campaign to sack the external manager at a small Singapore real-estate investment trust has shone the spotlight on the industry’s East versus West split, with important consequences for future returns.
Oil prices were, understandably, unmoved. In terms of barrels flowing and who runs Russia, nothing had changed. And the oil market is used to drama, even drama of what might be called Wagnerian proportions.
The acquisition is the seventh made by Big Blue this year, part of Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna’s continued effort to pivot the 112-year-old company away from its legacy business of IT infrastructure.
Exchange-traded funds designed to protect against inflation are staring down a record exodus after faltering in the face of still-sticky price pressure.
Digital-asset investment products added $199 million last week, the biggest weekly inflows in nearly a year, as a flurry of applications for spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds in the US sparks renewed interest in the space.
Online reviews will become the cornerstone of how prospective clients find, vet and select a financial advisor.
Evidence on actual spending behavior suggests that real spending falls with age. If that’s true, people need to save less for retirement than we think.
Proper archiving of social media data is crucial to meet compliance requirements and reduce these risks, ensuring your firm has a backup of content in case of complaints.
Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management says it’s first in line to get potential approval for a spot-Bitcoin ETF, despite industry reasoning positing that BlackRock Inc. might be ahead in the race should any product receive regulatory assent.
For people looking on anxiously as stock wealth converges in an oligarchy of high-tech juggernauts, some perspective: It’s nothing new.
Why is the US housing market not crashing? Interest rates are up, which means more expensive mortgages, which should push down demand. House prices are already falling in other countries, by nearly 9% in Canada and 16% in New Zealand.
Normally, a consensus between Democrats and Republicans in Washington is a heartening sign. Not so when it comes to populist interventions in the banking system.
There are more ER visits in the summer than in any other season.
The mutiny by caterer Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenary army ended on Saturday before it really began.
When Saudi Arabia needs to quickly convince the oil market that supply is tightening, putting upward pressure on prices, nothing beats reducing its crude exports into the US.
When you travel abroad, get travel insurance. I needed to use mine on three international trips this year.
Tech stocks are not in a bubble for two reasons. Not all stock price booms result in busts, and fundamentals and valuations do not suggest a tech bust is imminent.
To help advisors and investors get started, below are some key questions and answers about carbon pricing that might help the broader investment community learn more about carbon pricing and its potential impact on portfolios as the world aims to create a greener and more sustainable future.
Few financial topics grab more media attention than money managers who make gobs of money while everyone else suffers. Scott Patterson’s The Chaos Kings centers on two colorful participants who regularly do just that, Nassim Taleb and Mark Spitznagel.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is damaged goods. He may have survived this weekend’s mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group of mercenaries. In reacting as he did, though, Putin not only made himself even weaker but planted the idea of his impotence in the minds of Russians and the world.
Many economists have been forecasting a recession for 2023 due to tightening monetary policy. But that recession has not arrived yet.
As a dizzying first half for US stocks draws to a close, the Nasdaq 100 Index is poised for its best opening six months to a year ever, and Wall Street is growing concerned that the Federal Reserve will derail the rally.
Few stocks have better embodied Wall Street’s frenzy around artificial intelligence lately than Palantir Technologies Inc.
The barrage of fresh Treasury bills poised to hit the market over the next few months is merely a prelude to what’s yet to come: a wave of longer-term debt sales that are seen driving bond yields even higher.
Investment-banking deals have a reputation as bloody affairs of rainmakers and traders fighting it out in a kind of full-contact version of musical chairs.
In life as in markets, there will always be macro folks and micro folks, each tending to believe that their approach is better than the other.
The notion that central banks should set an inflation target higher than 2% has longstanding support among many economists, including former chief IMF economist Olivier Blanchard, and has remained persistent even amid efforts to bring inflation down.
Providing value pre-sale (free information about solutions and how you provide them) continues to increase the level of indecisiveness on the part of your prospect.
Politicians of both parties should welcome this trend and build on it — not least, by shifting resources from traditional college pathways and toward work-based alternatives that provide students with real-world skills.
There are early signs of investors fleeing from tech stocks after a 1999-like rally formed a “baby bubble,” according to Bank of America Corp.’s Michael Hartnett.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sees diminishing risk for the US to fall into recession and suggested that a slowdown in consumer spending may be the price to pay for finishing the campaign to contain inflation.
Today, a similar phenomenon goes on behind the scenes in developing artificial intelligence: Humans label much of the data used to train AI models and they often babysit those models in the wild too, meaning our modern-day machinery isn’t as fully automated as we think.
Surging interest rates have made the coupons look meager, the Federal Reserve is shrinking its exposure, and the regional banking crisis left the regulator with about $100 billion of the bonds to sell.
Bitcoin is heading for one of its strongest weeks of the year, buoyed by speculation that proposed exchange-traded funds potentially herald new sources of demand for the largest digital asset.
The balance of power in the jobs market is slowly tilting back toward employers as companies become choosier with their hires and workers turn more cautious about quitting.
This week I saw something I haven’t in a while: a brochure from Strutt & Parker advertising a price reduction on a rather charming Notting Hill house. It is now a mere £4,750,000 ($6 million) — down around 6% from its original listing price.
At some point, the world might have too many planes again. But it’s a little early to worry about that too much.
Bond investors’ concern over a potential US recession deepened after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled policymakers may keep pushing interest rates higher.
Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit is building a program to help customers develop and deploy new kinds of artificial intelligence products as the biggest seller of cloud services tries to match Microsoft and Google in the market for so-called generative AI.
Central banks have ramped up their hawkish rhetoric this month but for bond bulls, that’s a good thing.
