Investors crushed the stocks of consumer discretionary companies on Thursday in response to President Donald Trump’s tariff announcement, making little distinction between home goods companies such as Williams-Sonoma Inc., apparel names including Nike Inc. or restaurants such as Cheesecake Factory Inc.
Ideally, nobody would have to worry about the burgeoning and multifaceted realm of nonbank finance: Let hedge funds, securities dealers and the like take whatever risks they want, as long as they bear the full consequences.
U.S. ETFs saw record first quarter flows this year, bringing in $296 billion during the first three months of 2025.
Bond traders ramped up bets on interest-rate cuts from the Federal Reserve amid concern that Donald Trump’s trade war will backfire on the US economy, sending the yield on benchmark Treasuries toward the closely-watched 4% level.
Runway AI Inc. has raised $308 million in a new round of funding that more than doubles the company’s valuation — a sign of investor enthusiasm for startups building artificial intelligence software that can generate videos.
Meta Platforms Inc.’s head of artificial intelligence research plans to leave the company, creating a high-level vacancy just as Meta seeks to invest and compete aggressively in AI.
President Donald Trump imposed the steepest American tariffs in a century as he steps up his campaign to reshape the global economy, sparking threats of retaliation and a selloff in markets around the world.
The tiny German village of Rehden, halfway between Hamburg and Frankfurt, is the unlikely ground zero for the next phase of the European energy crisis.
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This year’s whiplash headlines and thrashing in equity markets have done little to slow down the ETF industry.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is expanding its private equity offering to wealthy individuals across Wall Street and beyond, in the latest sign of investment firms gradually broadening access to the much sought-after private markets.
Hiring at US companies accelerated last month, rebounding from a weak February marked by severe weather in some regions of the country.
There’s a lot of uncertainty over whether President Donald Trump will actually go through with all his planned tariffs, whether the economy will stall or go into reverse as a result, and whether Congress will eventually decide that it has had enough of ceding its tariff authority to the president.
On Monday, OpenAI announced $40 billion in new financing, the largest funding round in history, and one that nearly doubled the artificial intelligence company’s valuation to $300 billion.
They took the concept of a mutual fund, rewrapped it in a low-cost, easily traded package, and offered it to investors on a silver platter. Today, ETFs account for $15 trillion AUM globally, making them one of the most dominant forces in modern markets. And behind the scenes, they’re working even harder than you think.
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US stocks flipped between small gains and losses following the opening bell on Tuesday after closing out their worst quarter in nearly three years, as traders await President Donald Trump’s next tariff deadline on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump has pledged to hit countries on Wednesday with “reciprocal tariffs,” whatever that means. In the president’s characterization, the US will raise tariffs to a level that’s suitably high to match the tariff and non-tariff barriers that our exporters face in international markets.
India’s exporters are bracing for President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Some are confident that whatever is announced on Wednesday will not hurt them; others are genuinely uncertain how to manage if they can’t export to the US.
A duo of emerging-market bond veterans at Jeffrey Gundlach’s DoubleLine Capital is taking no chances as Donald Trump rolls out his trade agenda.
Investors are fretting that a year-long rally in global credit is papering over the risk that US policy uncertainty tips the world’s largest economy into a recession.
In a recent piece, I analyzed the construction of downside-protected strategies. Here, I propose a measure of the relative attractiveness of these strategies over time and examine their historical performance.
The energy sector has pulled off a rare feat: It’s the only industry group in the S&P 500 Index to rise in the month of March.
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This article explores the GDPNow and Nowcast models to understand the recent forecast divergences. A better understanding of the two models helps us appreciate the current state of the economy and, therefore, better estimate the first quarter GDP.
The US stock market is about to conclude its worst quarter compared to the rest of the world since the 1980s.
BlackRock Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink pledged to open up private markets to millions of everyday investors, not just the wealthy few, contending individuals should share more of the gains from economic growth.
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.
