A sailor observes the oil tanker HELGA, which is moored at one of Iraq’s southern offshore oil terminals near Basra, as it prepares to load crude oil, becoming the second vessel to arrive since the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, April 24, 2026. Mohammed Aty | Reuters The past week’s earnings from the energy…
Bond market investors may want to shift their focus toward the front of the yield curve, according to Allspring Global Investments’ Noah Wise. The bottom line: Focus exposure on short-term Treasurys over long duration. Wise, the firm’s head of global macro strategy and a senior portfolio manager, sees the strategy as part of a diversified…
As the AI infrastructure buildout and global geopolitical developments spur massive spending, an old-guard sector of the economy is getting a level of attention from investors that rivals the action in tech. The industrials sector of the S&P 500 is trading at a price-to-earnings ratio above 30, a level investors more often associate with high fliers,…
A man looks over the plunging stock market indices at the Nasdaq MarketSite, December 20, 2000, in New York City’s Times Square. Chris Hondros | Hulton Archive | Getty Images While baby boomers hog most of the attention in conversations about retirement, Gen Xers are marching toward the same destination, and in many cases, without…
Wall Street is banking heavily on exchange-traded funds that give investors artificial intelligence exposure, according to J.P. Morgan Asset Management. The firm’s “Guide to ETFs,” which came out this month, finds it’s a top five theme by assets under management — even as volatility hit the group in the second quarter. “Many [themes] are morphing…
CHICAGO – MARCH 28: Traders in the Ten-Year Treasury Note options pit at the Chicago Board of Trade signal offers in a flurry of activity following the announcement by the Federal Open Market Committee that it was raising short term interest rates another .25 percent March 28, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty…
A Korea Exchange (KRX) employee monitors stock market data on computer screens in the Yeouido financial district of Seoul, South Korea, on May 11, 2026. Chris Jung | Nurphoto | Getty Images South Korean retail investors who piled into leveraged bets on the country’s AI champions are nursing steep losses after a sharp reversal, exposing…
Overlooked market areas may have a banner second half of the year. ETF Action co-founder Mike Akins is encouraging investors to boost exposure to groups that underperformed compared with major artificial intelligence stocks. He told “ETF Edge” this week that his list includes software and cloud computing names. Many have fallen from “nosebleed valuations” and…
Next week, several exchange-traded fund companies plan to hit the market with the latest ETFs, offering a way to add leverage to bets on single stocks, in this case, on the South Korean chip giant SK Hynix, which began trading in the U.S. on Friday. The development should come as no surprise: similar SK Hynix…
Buying dips and selling rips has been the name of the game in the S&P 500 all summer. Options action suggests that it can continue, with VIX at recent lows and a slowdown in the wild speculative call-buying in tech that was pulling the market quickly in both directions. To an extent, that’s just the…
