A standoff between homebuyers and sellers played out in much of the country over the past two years, and particularly in internal migration destinations such as Florida and Texas. The number of homes on the market rose as poor affordability constrained would-be buyers, but sellers rejected offers significantly below the 2022 peaks.
Primark — the fast-growing “cheap chic” clothing brand owned Associated British Foods Plc. — faces a muscular Chinese rival in the form of Shein. The last thing it needs is turmoil in its top ranks.
One reason Apple Inc.’s brand is so valuable is that for decades, it had a reputation for only making promises it could keep.
Britain’s property-transaction tax, known as stamp duty, is set to rise sharply. Currently, first-time buyers pay no tax on properties worth up to £425,000 ($550,000). Starting next month, that threshold drops to £300,000, which will result in a charge of £6,250 on a £425,000 purchase.
It’s not just America and Europe that fear the competitive threat from Chinese clean technology. China itself is scared.
As shares of Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. rally on Thursday, the jump in the size of the company dwarfed the decline in the value of its US rivals as the stocks responded to President Donald Trump’s latest tariff announcements.
Czech chemicals company Draslovka AS is expanding into the growing US battery industry to mitigate risks from trade tensions and volatile prices for energy and materials.
EQT AB has raised €21.5 billion ($23.2 billion) for its latest infrastructure fund — a sum a top executive for the Swedish investment firm says underscores how the energy sector’s funding needs trump an uncertain market for deals.
The world’s largest asset manager is betting big on a growing breed of derivatives-powered ETFs that’s shaking up the art of active portfolio management.
With the pause button pressed on this year’s huge AI rally in Chinese tech stocks, clarity on global economic policies and concrete signs of core business improvement may be required to get things rolling again.
From New York to London and Hong Kong, investors are cutting back risk ahead of next week’s tariff announcements, while keeping cash ready to pounce the moment opportunities arise.
Long-maturity Treasury yields reached the highest levels in a month Thursday as investors demand compensation for the risk that tariffs will spur US inflation.
One is known as the Oracle of Omaha, the other as Superman. Warren Buffett and Li Ka-shing are the two most revered investors in the West and East.
If you log onto Chinese social media these days, you may encounter many young people expressing the “involution” or neijuan mentality. It’s become a buzzword for a generation of college students and recent graduates beaten down by society’s relentless competition, and roughly translates to rolling inwards.
A Columbia University student recently shone a light on a disturbing corner of today’s job market. Roy Lee, 21, was fed up with the antiquated way that large tech firms were testing job candidates with computer coding riddles you had to memorize, so he created a tool that his peers could use to beat the system.
When UBS Group AG acquired Credit Suisse in March 2023, its board of directors thought they were doing their duty.
Total assets held by actively run ETFs in the US have hit the $1 trillion milestone, as investors sink cash into a new generation of strategies — shaking up the passive reputation of this booming corner of money management.
Junk bonds don’t seem quite so junky anymore. US investors are piling into an asset class that has grown a little safer in recent years, and in recent weeks has drawn investors seeking a safe harbor from market turbulence.
Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is joining Pacific Investment Management Co.’s global advisory board, along with former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India Raghuram Rajan.
OpenAI expects to more than triple its revenue this year to $12.7 billion, fueled by the strength of its paid artificial intelligence software, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Discord Inc., a social communications platform popular with video-game players and programmers, is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. on an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter.
BlackRock Inc., fresh off a $28 billion deal spree to transform into a major player in alternative assets, is integrating complex private investments into its ready-made portfolios for individuals.
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The Federal Reserve has raised some questions with its recent decision to slow the pace at which it’s shrinking its more-than-$4-trillion pile of Treasury securities.
Fort Knox, home to much of the nation’s gold reserves, doesn’t get many visitors. That may soon change: President Donald Trump and his sidekick, Elon Musk, claim there’s a chance someone has stolen the shiny stuff. They want to visit and see it with their own eyes.
Amazon.com Inc. shares are starting to look like a bargain, a word that has rarely been used to describe the stock.
Electronic market makers like Citadel Securities LLC and Jane Street Group have been gobbling up market share from investment bank rivals, but to really get ahead they’ll need a helping hand. They might be about to get it from a surprising source: Some of those same banks.
The truth is, if you’re having to follow up with your prospect, you’ve already lost them. The sale was over at “hello.”
Life’s challenges often force us to become more present, to experience each moment fully. In doing so, I discovered the importance of celebrating small victories – not just the major milestones, but the everyday wins that mark progress.
I suspect many people yawned when the popular online brokerage Robinhood Markets Inc. announced it will offer sports and other prediction market derivatives, starting with betting on the NCAA March Madness basketball games.
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are expecting new leadership put in place by the Trump administration to usher in different enforcement priorities and a shift in how firms and individuals pay fines.
The $5 trillion industry is embarking on a campaign to change the way taxes for indebted businesses are tallied. Leading lobbyists want to tack two letters — DA — back to an earnings formula used to help calculate tax deductions, a change potentially worth billions.
The US economy looks set to disappoint this quarter. A number of economists have lowered their forecast for growth in real gross domestic product due to a widening trade deficit and sluggish consumer spending. An uncertain trade war and tepid labor demand have also clouded the outlook for the rest of 2025. Conflating the two would be a mistake, though.
Recently I have realized that cryptocurrency might be something even bigger and stranger than currency. It is not just digital money; it’s a bet on the huge global demand for financial autonomy.
Investors under 40 have little interest in reaching out to humans for financial advice. Rather than collaborating directly with a professional, many investors under 40 prefer a do it yourself (DIY) method that enables them to find stock market information online.
In today’s hyper-competitive environment, delivering an institutional-caliber portfolio isn’t just table stakes – it’s a fiduciary mandate that exceeds the scope of an individual advisor. Here is a checklist to help advisors evaluate whether their current approaches align with institutional best practices.
Though you may not agree with my view on all seven of these terms, it may be beneficial for you and your clients to at least consider them.
The world is a risky place, and high-yield debt spreads to safe US Treasury securities are close to historic levels of stinginess, signaling complacency in markets — at least on the surface. But legendary investor Howard Marks says that’s the wrong way to look at it and long-term investors should consider allocations to credit.
This article highlights several SimpleVisor tools we use to track sector and factor rotations. These models help us better forecast tomorrow’s possible rotations and try to stay a step ahead of the market.
Recently, downside-protected ETFs have garnered a lot of investor attention. These products are long the stock market – via different indexes – and use options to create downside-protected payoffs.
Quantitative easing has created serious inflation threats. The only way out is to increase tax receipts and reduce government spending, neither of which is in the Fed’s purview. Otherwise, serious inflation lies ahead, regardless of Fed actions.
For years now, way before artificial intelligence became the hot new thing on Wall Street, Daniel Mahr has been making money on stocks, courtesy of his machine-learning model.
The sense of gloom on Wall Street is putting pressure on some of the most committed backers of American exceptionalism: South Korea’s risk-seeking retail investors.
US economic data are diverging wildly, fueling a debate over whether rising anxiety from President Donald Trump’s trade policies will push a moderating economy into a serious downturn.
Banks’ businesses don’t change radically year to year so nor should their capital requirements.
Removing the carbon dioxide we’ve put into the atmosphere and storing it back on Earth might sound like a fantasy, but the sprouts of an entire industry aiming to do just that are emerging.
US Treasuries consolidated gains in a choppy trading session with markets remaining confident that policymakers at the Federal Reserve are still on a path toward lower interest rates.
Despite the talk of austerity — and amid the possibility of a global trade war, the reality of a stock-market correction and fears of a US recession — there is still a chance that President Donald Trump’s agenda could increase economic growth. As usual, it will depend on the execution.
The Federal Reserve’s decision to leave interest rates unchanged was right — but easy to misinterpret.
The US stock market is on edge. The S&P 500’s recent 10% correction has investors worried, though a highly uncertain policy environment and an unusually top-heavy market obscure just what is spooking stocks.
