May 3, 2024
Investment

Federal Realty Investment Trust stock outperforms competitors on strong trading day

Published: Feb. 29, 2024 at 5:23 p.m. ET Shares of Federal Realty Investment Trust FRT rose 2.21% to $100.85 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX rising 0.52% to 5,096.27 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 0.12% to 38,996.39.

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Investment

These mutual-fund and ETF investing tips can give your portfolio new momentum

Published: Feb. 29, 2024 at 3:14 p.m. ET Don’t miss these top money and investing features: INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS 10 stocks you can bet on being inflation-proof High-quality stocks can do well when prices are rising or falling. Here’s why. Read More Nvidia, AI-fueled tech stocks are heading for a ‘magnificent exuberance’ bubble The…

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Investors

Bitcoin rallies to highest level since November 2021 as investors eye record high

Published: Feb. 26, 2024 at 10:28 p.m. ET Bitcoin on Monday rallied to its highest level since November 2021, as exchange-traded funds investing directly in the cryptocurrency attract more capital into the space, while investors await the upcoming “halving” event, which has historically been bullish for bitcoin prices.  Bitcoin BTCUSD rose 9.5% over the past

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Investors

Should stock-market investors stop worrying about the Fed and just keep loving AI?

It might seem at times that investors care more about Jensen Huang than Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Huang is the longtime CEO of chip maker Nvidia Corp. NVDA , which stole the show last week by blowing away already lofty earnings expectations and leading stocks to new rounds of all-time highs, even as nagging

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Investment

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

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Crypto

Bitcoin ETF activity has been ‘additive’ to crypto demand, says Robinhood CFO

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

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Investors

What investors with $6.5 trln in cash should do while waiting for Fed rate cuts

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

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Investment

These mutual-fund and ETF investing tips keep your portfolio in the game

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

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Investors

Stock-market investors fear a megacap meltdown. Here’s what history says.

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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Investors

Stock investors fear ‘no-landing’ economy could spell trouble. What’s next?.

While the U.S. stock market has been pricing in a “soft-landing” scenario for the economy, a blowout January jobs report, relatively strong corporate earnings, and Federal Reserve Jerome Powell’s comments during the past week could point to the possibility of “no landing,” where the economy is resilient while inflation stays target.   Such a scenario

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