Over the last several weeks, nearly every bank and researcher on Wall Street has published their outlook for how the Federal Reserve will adjust interest rates in 2025. Every firm operates with the same data,
What Hartford Funds and Ned Davis Research found was that income stocks more than doubled the average annual return of non-payers -- 9.17% versus 4.27% -- and did so while being less volatile than the benchmark S&P 500. However, high-quality dividend stocks don't grow on trees and require some effort by investors to uncover.
The charges even have an added advantage of driving a wedge between Trump’s new SEC chair, Paul Atkins, and his enforcement staff that investigated the matter if Atkins raises these issues and looks to dismiss or impose a slap-on-the-wrist penalty.
Goldman estimates that companies could spend some $1.07 trillion on buying back their own stock this year. On the other side of the equation, global investors have poured about $143 billion into money market funds in the week ending Jan 10, the largest since March 25, 2020, Goldman said.
In the euphoric markets of 2024, the biggest sin was skepticism. A white-hot runup in risky assets made life miserable for anyone buying into the frenzy of fresh products that Wall Street was hawking to hedge and diversify.
Emboldened by a friendlier incoming Trump administration and their success last year in weakening draft capital hikes, big U.S. banks plan to push to overhaul other U.S. capital rules, according to industry executives.
Housing could be overvalued by anywhere from 10% to 25% based on how investors are acting.
The Wall Street Pepe presale crossed the $50 million mark on Friday, and now there are only 30 days left to grab a piece of the next Pepe.
Wall Street traders know what to expect from Donald Trump’s White House return: policy shifts rolled out in late night social-media posts, threats to trading partners, and plenty of market volatility.
"I am worried that the anti-woke rhetoric will lead us straight back to the macho 'Wolf of Wall Street' era," Stefan Hoops wrote in the post from three days ago, referring to the Hollywood movie based on the memoir of controversial U.S. fund manager and convicted fraudster Jordan Belfort.
Shareholders of Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) just had a fantastic year. In fact, only six stocks in the S&P 500 have a higher percentage of sell ratings than Palantir, and the median price target of $39 per share implies a 45% downside from its current price of $71.