A host of star stock pickers shared their best ideas at the prestigous 2025 Sohn Investment Conference in New York on Wednesday. The annual conference aims to raise funds for the Sohn Conference Foundation to contribute to medical research and is one of the most high-profile gatherings on Wall Street. …
Sometimes you have to play defense. The stock market has been rocked with uncertainty in 2025, with many of the perennial megacap winners falling out of favor and defensive names stepping up. For months, Wall Street has ruminated on whether President Donald Trump ‘s tariffs will cause a recession and …
Something unusual is happening in a market long dominated by index funds. Active management is staging a comeback. Take the action in equity exchange-traded funds two weeks ago. Amid more whipsaw action in stocks that has typified 2025 trading, there was a net outflow from equity ETFs. But in a …
The welcome sign at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 2, 2025. David A. Grogen | CNBC OMAHA, Nebraska — Berkshire Hathaway shareholders are getting more bang for their buck at this year’s meeting with the annual shopping event more interactive than ever. The conglomerate’s …
For many investors, it’s always a good time for dividend stocks, with the income component coming to shareholders from the cash flow of corporations providing peace of mind regardless of short-term ups and downs in stock prices. But now, as the stock and bond markets both see sharp spikes in …
Homemade barbecue pork chops. Katy Perry performs onstage during the Katy Perry The Lifetimes Tour 2025. A woman checks her receipt while exiting a store. iStock| Theo Wargo | Hispanolistic | Getty Images A few weeks ago, as Kiki Rough felt increasingly concerned about the state of the economy, she …
More than three weeks after the calamitous April 2 “reciprocal tariffs” announcement threw the stock market into chaos, investors are trying to make sense of a world in which higher tariffs are likely here to stay — and one in which the U.S. may have lost its edge. Stocks have …
Smart robotic arms work on the production line at the production workshop of Changqing Auto Parts Co., LTD., located in Anqing Economic Development Zone, Anhui Province, China, on March 13, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — China missed several key targets …
It wasn’t long ago that an investor needed to do no more than bet it all on a tech-heavy S&P 500 Index and sit back and watch their portfolio grow, with names from Apple to Nvidia and Tesla on the march up and to the right. Those days are gone, …
Machinery and vehicles ready for shipment at the dock of the Oriental Port Branch of Lianyungang Port in China, on Sept. 27, 2024. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — U.S. has raised tariffs on Chinese imports to triple digits. For China’s exporters, it means raising prices for Americans …