That hope is under threat, as the Federal Reserve proceeds with a plan to increase borrowing costs by quickly raising interest rates to rein in some lending, consumer spending, business […]
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Back to news home4 Ways to Fortify Your Retirement Against Market Volatility
“It is important to not confuse risk with volatility, because volatility is something we have to live with,” Ms. Benz said. “Checking your liquid and near-liquid reserves, that’s a way […]
Why Midterm Election Years Are Tough for the Stock Market
These efforts often contribute to strong stock market returns leading up to presidential elections, when it is in presidents’ greatest interest to stimulate the economy.In the first half of a […]
Elon Musk, After Toying With Twitter, Now Wants It All
Should Twitter put such a measure in place, Mr. Musk could take his bid directly to shareholders with a so-called tender offer. If they like Mr. Musk’s offer, they could […]
Twitter Grapples With an Elon Musk Problem
SAN FRANCISCO — Bright and early on Monday, Elon Musk sent the government a surprising new document.In it, the world’s wealthiest man laid out his possible intentions toward Twitter, in […]
Staying the Course May Be the Key to Wartime Investing
Entire sectors of the global economy are in turmoil after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, leaving investors worried about how they should react. Should they buy energy stocks? Shares of defense […]
How Investors Can Cope With Bond Market Declines
Look at it this way. The Fed has already told us it expects that within the next year or two, the fed funds rate will exceed 2.25 percent. So the […]
Bond Market Unsettled by Inflation Worries
From a longer vantage, the August 2020 trough may just possibly have marked the end of a 40-year bull market in bonds. The rock-bottom 10-year yield that summer was the […]
Russian Invasion of Ukraine Needn’t Change Stock and Bond Investing
Professor Thaler, who was an author of the book “Nudge” and appeared as himself in the movie “The Big Short,” is one of the world’s great authorities on how humans […]
War in Ukraine Has Investors Thinking About a Second Cold War
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, investors have enjoyed decades of global economic stability in which military conflicts and foreign diplomacy played a diminished role in the movements of […]