From a revenue perspective, we were also encouraged by sales coming in +2.1% higher than analysts expected, with all 11 sectors showing positive revenue surprises. This also allays our fears that tariff impact might be worse than the analyst community feared.
Alphabet Inc. shares are suddenly unshackled after a long-awaited antitrust ruling removed a key risk that’s weighed on the stock for months.
Cantor Fitzgerald LP is planning to hire dozens of bankers in the Middle East in the coming years after the Wall Street firm appointed a veteran EFG Hermes rainmaker to lead its business in the region.
In this video, Chuck Carnevale, co-founder of FAST Graphs (“Mr. Valuation”), examines five managed healthcare stocks (companies) to assess whether they have recovered from recent industry challenges or remain “sick.” The companies analyzed are UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Elevance Health (ELV), Humana (HUM), Centene (CNC), and Molina Healthcare (MOH).
Apple Inc. is planning to launch its own artificial intelligence-powered web search tool next year, stepping up competition with OpenAI and Perplexity AI Inc.
As emerging markets navigate deglobalization, tariffs and regional conflicts, they are pivoting toward domestic drivers of growth and intra-regional trade
Whether you’re building your portfolio, trying to diversify or considering new investments, understanding the difference between active and passive funds is extremely helpful. Both mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can be either active or passive.
When equity markets rise to record highs, it’s natural for investors to feel a twinge of anxiety about putting more money into stocks. The fear of an impending correction often looms large.
The house of pain continues with small caps, at least on a relative basis. Year-to-date, the S&P 600 index has posted a 3.0% gain, so it's not like money is being burned. But still, even the Bloomberg Aggregate Bond index is up 4.9% YTD and the S&P 500 is up 10.9%.
Late last Friday, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) largely affirmed the Court of International Trade’s (CIT) May ruling blocking President Trump’s tariffs imposed under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA).
This past week, we saw a sweeping change in U.S. trade policy come into effect with the termination of the long-standing “de minimis” exemption on small, imported parcels.
Something close to the best-case scenario emerged for Google on Tuesday when a federal judge outlined its punishments for running an illegal search monopoly. The company will not be forced to sell its Chrome browser or Android operating system.
The U.S. stock market continues to trade near all-time highs, with performance again concentrated in a handful of the largest, predominantly tech-oriented companies in the S&P 500 Index. Meanwhile, active managers are continuing to underperform.
If Modi now wants to reach out a hand to the leaders of Eurasia, one might assume it is entirely because India has been insulted and rejected by the US — laden with higher tariffs than almost all its peers, and continually needled by President Donald Trump’s advisers and officials.
Bank of America Corp. will offer investments in private equity funds to its ultra-wealthy clients, a move that comes as more financial firms give access in alternative assets to a broader swath of millionaires.
Blackstone Inc. and State Street Investment Management are joining forces to launch an exchange-traded fund tracking European collateralized loan obligations, a move that comes as private markets seek to widen their investor base.
For decades, betting that long-term bond rates would rise was known as the widow-maker trade: It was simultaneously the most sensible and the most consistently money-losing wager an investor could make.
401(k) Day, celebrated annually on the Friday after Labor Day, is more than just a reminder to check your retirement account.
After a volatile first four months of 2025, it was a good summer for investors to go on vacation, as markets, for the most part, went up weekly.
In this article, Russ Koesterich discusses the merits of increasing one’s allocation to gold ahead of the potential for some seasonal volatility in the fall.
As demand for personalized investing strategies has increased, direct indexing has become one of the fastest-growing types of separately managed accounts (SMAs).
Doug Drabik discusses fixed income market conditions and offers insight for bond investors.
Markets rallied in August as hopes for a September Fed rate cut boosted equities, small caps, and income-oriented fixed income sectors, though risks of inflation and valuation excess remain.
In the post-pandemic era, one of the ABCs of investing has been “anywhere but China.”
Relations across the English Channel have stabilized.
Nvidia made a splash last week, or maybe an anti-splash, when it reported earnings and stated an intention to buy back $60 billion in stock.
The lifespan of Tesla Inc.’s “master plans,” strategic missives from Chief Executive Elon Musk, has declined dramatically. The first held for a decade. The third, just superseded by Master Plan Part IV, didn’t even make its third birthday.
Equities thrive when discount rates are low. Cheap capital inflates the present value of future cash flows, giving companies more leeway to finance growth and investors more willingness to pay higher multiples.
With an eye on mitigating rate risk, short-term bond funds have been the apple of fixed income investors’ eyes the past few years.
Emerging market investing has long been dominated by China’s outsized role. The country once accounted for roughly 30%-40% of many EM indexes.
Here is the hard truth you must learn. Your real edge comes from limiting damage when you’re wrong and maximizing gains when you’re right, which is the very foundation of any risk plan. You will lose. You must build your system around that fact.
Join the experts at SS&C ALPS Advisors and VettaFi for an educational webcast as they discuss the fundamentals for MLPs/midstream and outlook into 2026.
Investing in cryptocurrencies began as a grassroots movement of investors who believed in the importance of decentralization.
The Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) is higher by 87.4% for the three years ending August 28. And the Magnificent Seven stocks are taking on larger percentages of other widely observed benchmarks.
Municipal bond exchange-traded funds drew more than double the amount of cash this year compared to traditional mutual funds focused on the asset class, highlighting the growing popularity of ETFs as an investment vehicle in the space.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is looking to capitalize on helping private equity clients saddled with bets they can’t exit.
Google avoided a breakup after a US judge ruled against the government’s most onerous proposals, including a forced sale of its Chrome browser, another court victory for Big Tech in the biggest antitrust case in three decades. The shares jumped.
With Labor Day and the last weekend of summer behind us and September just getting started, this transition article will focus on how to wrap up your year-end to position your team or firm for transition in 2026.
I encourage you not just to make your prospects feel understood, but to lean into what makes you unique. Ultimately, this blended approach will attract the clients who are right for you.
Kraft Heinz Co. said Tuesday it plans to split into two separate companies, undoing a mega-deal ushered in a decade ago that turned the maker of Kraft Mac & Cheese into one of the largest packaged food sellers in the world.
A truly AI-native management platform isn’t a tool with a few generative features layered on. It’s a system designed to use AI for its core functionality, decision making, and user support. That means machine learning isn’t a sideshow.
It’s a deeply ingrained investing maxim that risk and return go hand in hand: to get more return, you must accept more risk.
The housing market remains out of sync with the broader economy as affordability is depressed, but an improvement in supply and demand dynamics might be on the horizon.
Earnings results surpassed expectations for the third consecutive quarter, which drove the market's strong August performance.
Powell’s speech seemed to give an all-clear signal for a cut in September. The speech started with a focus on the softening labor market, concluding it is in a “curious kind of balance” with rising risks of layoffs.
Here’s how I see it going into a critical data week: the inflation gauges landed precisely on expectations while an ugly July trade gap shaves some growth from Q3, and that combination keeps the Fed on a path to cut 25 basis points at the next meeting.
Markets surged late last week after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell suggested at Jackson Hole that the U.S. central bank may be ready to cut interest rates in September. Traders took it as a green light, while Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Barclays and others quickly pivoted their forecasts. The CME FedWatch tool now puts the odds of a September cut at nearly 90%.
In our opinion, all of these legitimate concerns are, to various degrees, already priced into financial markets. The impact of these on the ongoing stock market rally will depend on their trajectory relative to investor expectations.
Credit cards versus stablecoins is one of the less-discussed competitive battles ahead, but it’s one where traditional finance faces the most coherent threat.
If there’s one thing the European Union’s leaders agree on, it’s that the bloc needs to regain competitiveness — a key prerequisite for meeting urgent challenges such as rebuilding defenses, combatting climate change and reviving economic growth.
