It’s safe to say that 2025 has given us plenty of jump scares, but so far, markets have done fairly well overall. Since bottoming out in April, the stock market has enjoyed an enduring rebound and ...

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Market strategists warn that the tech concentration risk in the S&P 500 should remain central to investor positioning of market portfolios as the Fed gets set for a rate policy shift and the overall ...

As 2025 comes to an end, the economy seems stable, the S&P 500 is up more than 15% so far this year, and inflation is relatively tame. Yet Americans have the kind of gloomy views about inflation, ...

Current equity allocations above 50% signal U.S. stock markets, as measured by the S&P 500, may be near a cyclical top. A model linking aggregate equity allocation to future 10-year returns predicts a ...

Learn about market failure in economics, where supply and demand imbalances lead to inefficient distribution, its types, and causes.

The U.S. stock market scaled new heights in 2025, as investors largely tuned out concerns about the Trump administration's sharply higher tariffs and shrugged off fears of a financial market bubble ...

The crypto market has been struggling since the flash crash in October. But performance from earlier in the year hasn't consistently been much better. Whatever comes next will go a lot better if you ...

Tech stocks have been volatile in recent trading as fears about 'Mag 7' concentration in the S&P 500 and AI valuations have pressured trading. But stocks still remain near all-time highs, and Warren ...

Money market funds are a key tool for conservative investors and short-term cash management—here’s how they work and when ...