Joy Wiltermuth

Bonds should do well in the years ahead, as age demographics are set to play in their favor.

Wednesday's inflation reading, while ticking up to a 2.6% yearly rate as expected, continu

Inflation took center stage during the 2024 presidential election. It isn’t going away, yet.

Investors should get comfortable with the idea of a Federal Reserve policy rate of about 4%, according to Barclays Research. "We are taking Trump seriously, but not literally," a Barclays product-management team led by Ben McLannahan wrote in a Monday client note, adding that they expect half the t

Wall Street is getting anxious about the plumbing in the financial markets as the Fed’s balance sheet shrinks.

After a dismal few years, bonds used to finance U.S. commercial real estate were on pace for their best yearly performance in a decade, according to Deutsche Bank. Excess returns for commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) were pegged at 3.4% in 2024, versus 1.8% for investment-grade corporate

The Russell 2000 index jumped 5.5% on Wednesday after former President Donald Trump’s electoral win.

U.S. stocks closed lower on Thursday, with the Dow and S&P 500 cementing their first monthly loss since April as tech stocks sold off sharply and bond yields remained elevated. The Nasdaq slid 2.8% on Thursday, leading the other two major indexes lower. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 378.

What didn't work Thursday has been working Friday. Tech and heathcare stocks were providing a boost to the stock market on Friday, a day after a drop in shares of several megcap tech giants pulled equities lower. The S&P 500's information-technology sector was up 0.9%, at last check, while the hea

The market backdrop to this presidential election isn’t remotely like 2016, says Jamie Patton, co-head of global rates at TCW

Major U.S. companies will need to refinance some $250 billion in low-coupon bonds issued in 2020.

Options that expire soon after the Nov. 5 point to election jitters roiling bonds

Options that expire soon after the Nov. 5 point to election jitters roiling bonds

Election anxiety, rates jitters, Big Tech earnings and more on deck in the week ahead

U.S. stocks closed mixed on Thursday, with the blue-chip Dow extending its losing streak to a fourth straight session and the S&P 500 edging higher as Tesla shares surged. Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 140.59 points, or 0.3%, ending at 42,374.36, booking its largest 4-session slide since Sept

Prices for U.S. commercial real estate fell another 0.3% in September, logging a third straight monthly decline, after a brief stabilization around midyear, according to a closely watched index. Furthermore, prices in September fell 1.9% on a yearly basis, according to MSCI's RCA CPPI national inde

Investors in U.S. stocks were benefitting from another extraordinary year of gains — just not as good as gold. U.S. growth stocks were up 24.5% on the year through September, outperforming the broader 21.2% U.S. equity return, but still lagging gold's 27.2% surge to [fresh record highs](https://www

Tesla Inc.'s eye-popping rally on Thursday after "a solid beat on the bottom and a minor miss on the top" for the third quarter has been the "silver bullet" helping provide a lift to the stock market, said Louis Navellier, founder of Navellier & Associates. "This has single-handedly taken the Magni

Stocks were mixed on Thursday afternoon, while the three major U.S. equity indexes were all on pace for weekly losses. A surge in Tesla Inc.'s stock Thursday was a big factor keeping the S&P 500 aloft in afternoon trade. But next week's earnings from tech giants Alphabet Inc., Apple Inc., Amazon.c

This week's dip in stocks, a mixed-bag of third-quarter earnings reports and uncertainty in markets has Eric Beiley, executive managing director for wealth management at Steward Partners, getting ready for a potentially larger equities pullback. While the overall trend looks positive, especially si