Several analysts on Wall Street see a clear winner emerging from President Donald Trump ‘s new auto tariff policy: Tesla . Trump announced on Wednesday that all cars not made in the U.S. would be slapped with a 25% tariff beginning next week. The news sent shares of major American …
About 2,000 asset managers and investment advisors are here at the Exchange ETF conference in Las Vegas. A small ETF crowd arrived Saturday night to see Dead & Co. at the Sphere, who put on an amazing light show on top of an amazing music show. (What did you expect …
It felt better, but did it mean anything? Friday’s zippy 2.1% bounce in the S & P 500 , at minimum, interrupted one of the more relentless retrenchments from a record high Wall Street had seen. The index took a mere three weeks and a day to fall just over …
The market’s message and intentions are always worth debating — especially so during an intense pullback, with cacophonous policy headlines and piqued investor emotions animating the action day to day. Here’s an assessment of the weight of the evidence, after another rough week — but one that ended in a …
s Goldman Sachs Asset Management has thrown its hat into the ring of increasingly popular buffer exchange-traded funds, just as the stock market is showing some signs of fragility. On Tuesday, the firm announced the launch of the Goldman Sachs U.S. Large Cap Buffer 3 ETF (GBXC). That follows two …
A new movie due out next month called “Novocaine” is about a guy unable to feel pain. This is a kind of superpower, right up to the point where it becomes a keen danger, leaving him insensitive to damaging injury. The stock market, similarly, was for weeks calm and unflinching …
Is it possible to be too merry and bright heading into the holiday season? The question is timely, given the unmistakable upwelling of investor enthusiasm toward equities in recent weeks and a reignited impulse by traders to grab for the raciest assets. The trick, though, comes in trying to distinguish …
The grandaddy of gold ETFs turns 20. On November 18, 2004, I appeared on the New York Stock Exchange floor and instead of giving my usual report on stock movers, I was surrounded by two large guards protecting something very valuable: gold bullion bars, nearly $600,000 worth at the time. I was …
First the reflex, then the rethink. The fast-twitch rush for risk that jolted markets following the decisive election result and excitement over potential growth-stoking policies gave way last week to a modest retrenchment and reassessment as some tradeoffs and unknowns encroach. The list of assets that went vertical on a …
There’s still two months to go in the year, and this is already one of the strangest markets we have seen in a long time. In years when there are presidential elections, and particularly close elections, the market is usually more volatile earlier in the year, and returns are typically …