Investors will have to wait until at least July for those widely expected interest-rate cuts, according to one Federal Reserve president’s outlook. Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic said rate cuts probably wouldn’t be suitable until the third quarter given the current strength of the economy. That’s a quarter earlier than he originally predicted, Bostic said,
Last Updated: Feb. 14, 2024 at 6:24 a.m. ET First Published: Feb. 14, 2024 at 4:29 a.m. ET One of the big concerns for investors in Coinbase Global is that the launch of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds would hurt its main crypto brokerage. At one competitor, that’s not been the case. Robinhood Markets HOOD CFO
Indonesia will go the polls on Wednesday to elect a new president to replace Joko Widodo. The vote’s importance should not be underestimated. Covering 17,000 islands across South East Asia and Oceania — including Java and Sumatra — the republic has important geopolitical and global economic clout. With about 280 million inhabitants, encompassing an estimated
Published: Feb. 12, 2024 at 2:19 a.m. ET By Joe Hoppe Tritax Big Box said it has reached an agreement to take over UK Commercial Property REIT in an all-share offer, valuing the company at around 924 million pounds ($1.17 billion). The commercial-property investor said UK Commercial Property investors will receive 0.444 new ordinary Tritax
The Federal Reserve’s pushback on expectations for interest-rate cuts over the past two weeks has investors closing watching inflation data and piling more cash into money-market funds. Investors stashed a record $6.48 trillion away in U.S. money-market funds through the end of January, with the balance growing as euphoria in December over a Fed policy
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
Passive investing has become more popular than active investing in the U.S., but the trend may be changing soon, according to Jill Carey Hall, U.S. equity strategist at BofA Global Research. The amount of assets managed by passive funds have overtaken those overseen by active funds, according to data from BofA Global Research. Only 47%
Published: Feb. 8, 2024 at 6:41 a.m. ET By Christian Moess Laursen One of the largest pension funds in the Netherlands, PFZW, has sold all of its stakes in Shell, BP and TotalEnergies, saying they aren’t investing fast enough in the switch from fossil to low-carbon fuel. PFZW–which managed around $256 billion at 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
The truth about investing: ‘Common sense’ can be the worst advice
In a recent article I offered the opinion that “common sense” is a dangerous trap that’s easy for investors to fall into. Some readers didn’t agree. So let’s explore this idea a bit, then you can make up your own mind. Common sense is a popular topic for authors. I have often recommended ”The Little Book of Common