Stock investors have gotten off to a wobbly start to the new year, hobbled by shifting expectations on the timing and extent of Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts in 2024. All three major U.S. stock indexes snapped a nine-week winning streak on Friday, after unexpectedly strong December job gains prompted traders to briefly pull back on
Diversifying one’s investment portfolio is a key strategy to manage risk and optimise returns. While one can think that the universe of investable asset classes available today is vast and offers a variety of options to investors, in essence, there are only two things on any diligent investor’s mind while evaluating a potential investment opportunity:
Published: Jan. 5, 2024 at 4:06 p.m. ET The stock market has stumbled into the new year, but a closely watched measure of expected volatility remains subdued — cheering up investors looking for renewed equity gains but worrying those who fear market participants are complacent. The Cboe Volatility Index VIX, widely known by its ticker
The number of shorted shares has grown 23% since the end of 2020, but that doesn’t mean traders are getting more bearish about the market. Thanks to an array of initial public offerings and stock splits, the total number of stock shares has ballooned since the end of 2020—which means the relative short interest has
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
Published: Dec. 27, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. ET By Adriano Marchese Stocks in Toronto were solidly higher in the first trading day in the shortened week following Christmas Day and Boxing Day in Canada. Nearly all sectors were driving the increase in the session, led primarily by health tech, process industries and materials. Consumer durables
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Published: Dec. 21, 2023 at 5:23 p.m. ET Shares of Federal Realty Investment Trust FRT rallied 1.17% to $104.45 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX rising 1.03% to 4,746.75 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 0.87% to 37,404.35.
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