Published: Feb. 8, 2024 at 6:05 p.m. ET Don’t miss these top money and investing features: . INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS This fund manager stopped worrying about economics. Now he is outperforming the stock market. A change in strategy has helped transform the GoodHaven Fund from a long-term underperformer into an outperformer since the end
Investors spent 2023 fretting about the sustainability of a stock-market rally largely driven by a handful of megacap tech stocks. Those worries remain in place as the S&P 500 has returned to record territory in the new year. “With the usual set of select megacap stocks pacing early 2024 performance, concentration-risk worries have been getting
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Apple Inc. has long been the most valuable U.S. company, but Microsoft Corp. seems poised to overtake it. A look back at the companies’ financial performance and a look ahead at expected revenue and profits make the case that Apple is no longer a growth stock and that Microsoft is the better long-term investment. Late
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The stock market, as measured by the S&P 500 Index SPX, has continued to move higher over the past week — ignoring the one big down day (70 points) and putting that in the rearview mirror. SPX has made new 2023 highs, and the all-time highs just above 4800 are within shouting distance. It seems
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