Banks are contemplating a role for themselves in stablecoins if pending US legislation helps take cryptocurrencies and their gateway products mainstream.
There’s a lot to like about the travel industry right now from an investment standpoint. You just have to know where to look.
Keep your market perspective in check, avoid anchoring, and focus on your investment goals rather than market volatility.
Private credit firms are seeing an opportunity to finance everything from public transit systems to local utilities as the federal government and banks pull back on funding.
Over the past four months, the price of gold in yuan terms has climbed by 24 percent, the strongest January to April performance on record. The Shanghai Benchmark Gold Price rose 6.9 percent in April alone. It was the fifth consecutive monthly gain.
From an energy perspective, while the trade dispute with China initially impacted oil prices and raised concerns about oil demand (mirrored across tariff discussions), the direct effect on midstream has been limited.
In 2025, AI crossed a subtle but monumental threshold: it stopped just answering questions and started executing goals.
Markets rallied after a surprise tariff rollback, but with valuations stretched and policy signals still mixed, investors appear to be leaning toward flexibility, fundamentals, and selective exposure.
Given the headwinds Target has faced this year, many advisors were not expecting to hear good news at the retailer’s latest earnings call.
Though silver has been quiet lately, it’s important to be aware of the many bullish factors that are setting the stage for a strong move higher.
The Endowment Tax was introduced during the first Trump administration as part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA).
For many of us, ETFs have been synonymous with passive management.
Long-term interest rates have become much less predictable, and that means volatile prices for long bonds.
You wouldn’t exactly call it understated. In a video, Sam Altman, co-founder and chief executive officer of OpenAI, jostles through a busy San Francisco sidewalk.
Investors have breathed multiple sighs of relief in recent weeks as the Trump administration has dialed back its extreme tariff rates on China and other countries. In addition, first-quarter earnings were better, overall, than many expected given the quarter’s uncertainty.
Having raised $445 million from investors including Microsoft Corp. and SoftBank Group Corp., the British firm entered insolvency proceedings this week after a major creditor seized $37 million from its accounts, leaving $5 million in the company’s coffers.
Even though Bitcoin has retreated from record territory, options show that traders remain extremely bullish with open interest reaching an all-time high.
On the latest episode of ETF 360, VettaFi’s Kirsten Chang interviewed Innovator’s Director of Product Management Joe Becker to discuss one of their newest product launches, the Innovator Equity Premium Income – Daily PutWrite ETF (SPUT). This new product uses the put instead of the covered call.
House Republicans narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s economic package after a series of all-night negotiations and 11th-hour compromises.
Someday, the dollar will cease to be the world’s reserve currency. But don’t hold your breath waiting; there is nothing even close to being able to take its role.
Investors should always be attuned to inflation risk, but it seems pronounced in this moment. How should your clients adjust behavior and investments?
As AI capabilities continue to advance, we can expect even more sophisticated financial planning tools to become accessible to the average person, potentially improving retirement outcomes for many.
OpenAI will acquire the AI device startup co-founded by Apple Inc. veteran Jony Ive in a nearly $6.5 billion all-stock deal, joining forces with the legendary designer to make a push into hardware.
Direct indexing has been in the news a lot more in recent years. Larger industry players have strategically acquired a number of providers—including Parametric. And many new entrants have entered the space, looking to build on its success.
Investors active today can be forgiven if the events of the past few months have been a bewildering experience.
The market narrative appears to change on a dime these days. Stocks may have staged a comeback to recoup almost all their post-“Liberation Day” losses. But the bottom line on the fixed income market hasn’t changed all that much.
Cathie Wood’s funds made their biggest purchase of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. shares in nearly a year, underscoring a change in stance from being mostly sellers of the chipmaker since the third quarter of last year.
Trade pacts with America will not mean a return to the old normal.
One of the biggest stories in the ETF market in 2025 has been the nonstop impressive asset-gathering pace of the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO).
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The world’s largest asset manager is adding to bets on the artificial intelligence within its US model portfolios while trimming its overall equity risk because of tariff uncertainty.
Investors dumped US stocks Wednesday afternoon following a disappointing Treasury auction that sent bond yields surging past levels seen during April’s market rout.
Tariffs, inflation, geopolitical tensions, and other factors continue to feed into market uncertainty for even safe haven assets like Treasuries. As such, investors could be giving riskier emerging market (EM) bonds a second look.
529 plans offer tax-free savings for a variety of education expenses, including K-12 tuition, vocational training and apprenticeships. Our Bill Cass discusses the trends in 529 savings plans.
In a year dominated by multimodal marvels and reasoning breakthroughs, perhaps the most economically significant shift in AI went largely underplayed: cost collapse.
The April Consumer Price Index (‘CPI’) report was released last Wednesday and gave the Federal Reserve another positive data point in its inflation fight, as did Thursday’s negative Producer Price Index (‘PPI’).
This year’s turbulent market environment underscores the value proposition of actively managed strategies. Active ETFs may offer diversification benefits, a responsiveness to changing market environments, and a depth of fundamental research above and beyond that of their passive peers.
The shifting change in market leadership to international outperformance may call for a portfolio review to assess overexposure risks.
Innovative ETFs are making waves as investors look for fresh ways to navigate a market marked by rapid growth and ongoing volatility.
With the latest Target earnings report coming in weaker than expected, advisors might want to reassess how they gain exposure to the company.
Bitcoin options traders are setting their sights on much higher prices while the largest cryptocurrency flirts with its fairly recent all-time high.
Nvidia Corp. chief Jensen Huang blasted the “failure” of US restrictions intended to help contain China’s technological ascent, calling on the White House to lower barriers to AI chip sales before American firms cede that market to up-and-coming rivals such as Huawei Technologies Co.
When CFRA’s Paige Meyer slapped a “sell” rating on UnitedHealth Group Inc. in February, she was the lone analyst out of 30 tracked by Bloomberg with a negative view of the company.
US equities are likely to drive the global rally in the coming months on an improving corporate earnings outlook and a weaker dollar, according to cross-asset strategists at Morgan Stanley.
This isn’t about selling — at all. It’s about problem-solving and helping — it’s about offering an opportunity to change someone’s life. Remember, they can always say “no.”
With mainstream investment products increasingly finding a second home on the blockchain, it’s a good time to ask what role central banks would play if everything they have learned while policing double-entry bookkeeping over the last 350 years becomes irrelevant.
Most investors would jump at the chance to add more money to their portfolio, but they often fail to consider the hidden costs associated with it.
As investors, we need to step back and examine the history of previous debt downgrades and their outcomes for the stock and bond markets. Let’s start with what Moody’s rating agency stated about its rating change.
Moody’s Ratings has followed S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings in stripping the US of its top-notch credit score, lowering it one level to Aa1.
In an investment landscape dominated by market-cap-weighted benchmarks, the Barron’s 400 ETF (BFOR) offers a different path through GARP.
