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The Great Gold Rush of 2016
Over the first half of the year, precious metals such as gold and silver, as well as the shares of companies that dig them out of the earth, were clearly the star performers. At one point, an...
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Educated Financial Consumers Experience Less Late-Life Stress
As most investors learned from the school of hard knocks, financial markets loathe uncertainty. Better to know than to wonder. Of course, markets don’t take a shine to unpleasant reality either, but at...
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Rising Rates Don’t Have to Upend the Bull Market in Stocks
If the 35-year pattern of ever-lower interest rates is over, investors might ask themselves what higher yields could mean for stocks, and which sectors typically lead the equity market as borrowing...
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After Years of Steady Gains, Stocks Expensive but not Bubbly
The recent push by U.S. stocks into record territory reignited concerns that prices have outstripped fundamentals. And by most traditional yardsticks, American equities are expensive. But how much does...
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Understanding a Border Tax
The border adjustment tax under consideration in Washington would have major implications for the U.S. economy and create an unusually wide set of corporate winners and losers. Investors should pay...
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Ignore the October Effect
The days are getting shorter, and for investors, that typically means financial markets are getting jumpier. Historically, that agitation — perhaps linked to the reduced daylight that triggers mood...
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Companies Head Toward Buybacks After Tax Cuts
If you’re both an investor and a wage earner, you might find yourself conflicted about how businesses should use the financial windfall from the recent $1.5 trillion tax cut, most of which will accrue...
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Stocks Remain the Best Hedge Against Inflation
Research shows that people react more to stories than to numbers. But numbers can spin meaningful yarns as well. What follows is a numerical tale that should piqué the interest of investors unsettled...
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Companies Need to Tread Carefully in Social Media
To tweet or not to tweet? For America’s CEOs — and for the shareholders whose financial interests they are paid so handsomely to protect — that is an increasingly relevant question. The propriety of...
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ETFs Offer Potential Opportunities for Stock-Pickers
Are exchange-traded funds the investment tail that wags the market dog? ETFs mostly are passive (unmanaged) products that can be bought and sold in real time like stocks and that track any of the...
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