China’s export growth slowed more than expected in August and imports stagnated, a sign of a darkening global economic picture and weak domestic growth hit by Covid lockdowns and a property slump.
Prateek Bhardwaj broke out as a social media star on TikTok’s short-video platform, drawing in close to a million followers and a slew of big-brand endorsements. But he’s no longer on the app.
After spending much of 2022 playing defense, professional speculators are reasserting themselves with aggressive equity bets on both the short and long side.
You can’t randomly scroll on Twitter these days without running into predictions of an impending housing collapse.
Gold steadied after a two-day decline as traders eyed the soaring dollar and a surge in Treasury yields amid expectations of further monetary tightening by the Federal Reserve.
A new ESG product that JPMorgan Chase & Co. is about to start offering clients shows how rapidly perceptions are changing about the investment strategy.
Even as flows into environmental, social and governance ETFs are slowing, Emerge is introducing its first set of active sustainable ETFs with a twist -- each fund will be overseen by women.
What can a person do to mitigate the potential of becoming mired in a life-shattering financial crisis?
Why is the first-term governor of Florida the most visible opponent of Wall Street's fastest-growing and best-performing business?
After Labor Day, it's back to the office for Wall Street.
The high-desert mountain pass overlooking alfalfa fields and RV parks doesn’t look like a battleground that will shape the country’s clean energy future.
Former Enron Corp. trader Ulf Ek guided his Northlander Commodity Advisors LLP hedge fund to a 50% return this year, capping a series of gains among commodities-focused investors profiting from unprecedented turmoil in global energy markets.
A shift is underway at the Federal Reserve in how to describe neutral -- the interest-rate level that neither stimulates nor restrains growth -- as it debates how much higher to hike.
The cryptocurrency market appears by some measures to be poised to break out of the narrowest trading range in almost two years.
As US markets were closed to mark the Labor Day holiday, the dollar index surged to a new three-decade high.
First, seniors are clearly struggling from the rapid increase in prices. About half of older Americans said they had to spend emergency savings in the past 12 months...
Here are some ways to differentiate your family offices services.
There are typically two approaches that I take for promoting a podcast on an advisor’s website.
One of the common questions I get is how to convert a friend or acquaintance to a business prospect. Use this five-step process.
Do your clients include a senior retiree with looming debt and considering filing for bankruptcy? Here is a list of 14 financial resources that can help get their finances in order.
Some of the attacks on ESG in 2022 were merited.
Technology has made it possible for us to walk on the moon once again, yet academic research has failed to find a way to identify outperforming mutual funds. But a new study shows that may be possible.
Super-bubbles in the asset markets, the rise of populism, and inequality are among a host of societal problems caused by low interest rates, according to Edward Chancellor. He explains why in his provocative new book, The Price of Time.
Investors who might be looking for the world’s biggest bond market to rally back soon from its worst losses in decades appear doomed to disappointment.
The future of retirement should be individual retirement accounts. We should phase out pensions in public sector jobs and make retirement accounts accessible to more people rather than enlarging Social Security.
Today’s jobs report made clear that despite rising interest rates and incessant recession talk, American businesses are still hiring.
With the US unemployment rate near a five-decade low and job vacancies close to a record high, businesses say they are scrambling to find workers. Many complain that large and growing skills mismatches prevent them from getting the staff they need.
Amazon.com Inc., determined to reduce the size of its sprawling delivery operation amid slowing sales growth, has abandoned dozens of existing and planned facilities around the US, according to a closely watched consulting firm.
US employers added a healthy number of jobs in August and a steady stream of people entering the labor force pushed the unemployment rate higher, consistent with a job market that is coming more into balance and offering mixed implications for the Federal Reserve.
We know that the US economy is currently weak, but the real economy is really weak, and the Federal Reserve’s commitment to precipitate a recession to curb high inflation will make this reality obvious to seemingly oblivious investors.
This means your chances of finding a good candidate are worse than at any time in the last 40 years. If you hire wrong, it will set you back months. You need someone good now.
Popular opinion is that the Fed was way too late in responding to the threat of inflation. But this is a misguided view.
The classical notion of 1940 investment advice has been hijacked and replaced by the SEC with a weak, distant cousin.
Cathie Wood’s fans turned tail last month, pulling out the most money from her flagship fund in nearly a year as it continues to flounder.
The Federal Reserve needs to raise its benchmark rate above 4% by early next year and leave it there for some time to help cool inflation, Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester reiterated on Wednesday, making it clear she doesn’t expect the central bank to cut rates in 2023.
Manufacturers of fighter jets, battleships and missiles are usually one of investors’ best defensive havens when economies get shaky.
The new US climate law plows $27 billion into an Environmental Protection Agency fund for green banks.
Famed investor Jeremy Grantham said the “super bubble” he previously warned about has yet to pop, even after this year’s turbulence in the US stock market.
Copper is one of the essential elements of today’s economy, and tomorrow’s.
The crash in cryptocurrencies was not a unique contributor to investor suicides. It just happened to be the financial crisis de jour.
After a cruel summer, crypto fans might be in for an unforgiving September, too.
US households will install a record amount of solar this year to help slash electricity bills, according to a BloombergNEF analysis.
The Federal Reserve’s quantitative tightening program will ramp up to its full potential in September, increasing from $47.5 billion to $95 billion per month.
Forget about a soft landing. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is now aiming for something much more painful for the economy to put an end to elevated inflation. The trouble is, even that may not be enough.
The second half of August has been bruising for technology stocks, but those hoping for a respite from the declines shouldn’t relax just yet: September is just around the corner.
BMW AG has started producing fuel-cell systems for its hydrogen-powered iX5 sport utility vehicle, moving forward with a climate-friendly alternative fuel that its German rivals don’t expect to be viable in passenger cars.
Let’s carefully examine the menu of potential solutions offered by other countries with higher rates of financial literacy than the U.S.
I will share some ideas for how create a special event to honor a client.
Many advisors don’t see the benefit of integrating their marketing. This failure results in significant lost opportunity, improper focus and a waste of marketing dollars.
This is a brief guide to help clients understand if a trust is required and, if so, which type of a trust is suitable to ensure that their wishes are honored.
