Bond yields were down a touch on Monday, after a week in which short-term yields moved higher, while longer-term securities took a breather. What’s happening The yield on the 2-year Treasury BX:TMUBMUSD02Y was 5.07%, down 1.3 basis points. Yields move in the opposite direction to prices. The yield on the 10-year Treasury BX:TMUBMUSD10Y was 4.22%,
Month: August 2023
When working with a financial adviser, your best defense is a good offense. Before you even hire someone to advise you, you should protect yourself by doing some basic research, said Jason Steeno, president of CoreCap Investments and CoreCap Advisors. “Do your homework upfront. Vet an adviser before you hire them,” he said. “Talk to
Don’t be surprised if bonds far outpace stocks over the next several years. That’s because the period since March 2020 has experienced just the opposite, and history teaches us that the equity premium (the amount by which stocks beat bonds) regularly swings from one extreme to the other. And over the 41 months since March
Another day, another item of investing advice lands in my inbox claiming that we American investors shouldn’t waste one nickel of our IRAs and 401(Ks) on those inferior foreign (yuck!) stocks. Stock markets in places like Western Europe, Japan and Australasia will get you all the risks of Wall Street with less of the upside,
An eventful week that included Nvidia earnings and Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole address ended with a solid if not spectacular 0.8% gain for the S&P 500 SPX, which at least brought a streak of three successive weekly declines to an end. It’s worth revisiting Nvidia NVDA. According to FactSet, Nvidia’s earnings beat Wall Street estimates
The U.S. stock market snapped a streak of three straight weekly losses in a volatile week that featured Nvidia earnings and an eagerly awaited speech by Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell at the annual Jackson Hole symposium in Wyoming. But the week ahead offers another trial for investors as they await the Fed’s preferred measure
Oil futures were trading near unchanged early Monday as investors assessed China’s latest efforts to bolster its lagging economy, while also monitoring the potential threat posed by Tropical Storm Idalia to Gulf Coast crude and gas output. Price action West Texas Intermediate crude for October delivery CL00, +0.03% CL.1, +0.03% CLV23, +0.03% was off 2
Gold prices traded higher on Monday after the most-active contract booked its first weekly advance in four weeks through Friday. The U.S. dollar and Treasury yields were little-changed, easing some of the pressure that has recently faced the yellow metal. Price action Gold futures for December delivery GC00, +0.11% GCZ23, +0.11% gained $2.40, or 0.1%,
U.S. stock futures edged higher on Monday, as investors looked ahead to a week that will deliver important inflation and employment data, following a cautious view from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell last week. What’s happening Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00 rose 102 points, or 0.3%, to 34,479. S&P 500 futures ES00, +0.29% were
On today’s show, Stig and Preston talk with investment experts Bill Nygren and Mike Nicolas from Oakmark Funds. The topic is determining the intrinsic value of a company and the company being assessed is Bank of America. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: – How to estimate the intrinsic value of Bank of America – How
In this article TGT GEHC MRCY A HRB TJX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Plastic bags hang on a self checkout kiosk at a Target Corp. store in Chicago, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Target – Target shares added 4% even after
Artificial intelligence is here to stay, and as FOMO sets in, investors are flocking to little-known AI stocks. However, that doesn’t mean investors aren’t becoming weary and even skeptical about the way different companies are touting their use of AI. For example, since Palantir (NYSE:PLTR) reported earnings in early August, the stock is down
If you are a public equities investor betting on the digital economy, semiconductor stocks would have to be in your portfolio. Semiconductors are tiny electronic devices powering everything from our smartphones and personal computers to cars and commercial airplanes. If you take any run-of-the-mill semiconductor exchange-traded fund (ETF), say, the iShares Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SOXX), many
The narrative around the strength of the consumer economy is, simply put, nonsense. The reality painted by retail stocks, particularly the SPDR S&P Retail ETF (NYSEARCA:XRT), is quite different. Does this look like a chart that is in a “new bull market?” Man – that new bull market in retailers is really something. $XRT pic.twitter.com/c9baCY2Prc
For the real-estate sector, 2023 is turning out to be the summer when it all came to a halt. Mortgage rates have stayed around the 7% range over the last few days, making it more expensive to buy a home for many aspiring homeowners. Even if buyers come to terms with high rates, home listings
The New York Stock Exchange welcomes executives and guests of Cava in celebration of its initial public offering, June 15, 2023. NYSE Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading. H&R Block — The tax preparer rose nearly 5.9% after posting quarterly earnings per share of $2.05 that beat Wall Street’s expectations of $1.88,
While technology firms have been flying on the promise of artificial intelligence, investors may want to consider “analog” AI stocks; that is, the best stocks to buy that don’t natively align with a core tech product or service. Of course, this concept begs the question, why the heck would you want to do something like
It has been a rough past couple of years for Tilray Brands (NASDAQ:TLRY), but more recently, things have started to look up for TLRY stock. Last month, shares in the Canada-based cannabis company began to rally again, on the heels of a well-received quarterly earnings release. Last week, shares spiked in price yet again, except
Li Auto (NASDAQ:LI) stock saw profit taking after reporting record earnings for the June quarter. Li earned $300 million, 30 cents per ADR share fully diluted, on revenue of $3.95 billion during the quarter. Deliveries more than tripled from a year ago, to 86,533 vehicles. Despite this, shares hit an air pocket, falling from $46.63
U.S. stock futures rose Wednesday as bond yields fell and traders eyed publication later in the day of the Federal Reserve’s minutes from its July rate-setting meeting. How are stock-index futures trading S&P 500 futures ES00, +0.19% rose 11 points, or 0.3%, to 4465 Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, +0.19% gained 81 points, or
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