Bond investors are heading into Friday’s much-anticipated Jerome Powell speech largely expecting the Federal Reserve chair will indicate policymakers will start cutting interest rates next month.

Bitcoin, once the unruly child of finance, is showing signs of maturity as its wild swings fade, forcing speculative traders to hunt for a new playground.

A paper from researchers at hedge fund AQR Capital Management and Yale University addresses one of the most important questions in finance: Will artificial intelligence and machine learning replace human researchers and traders?

Nvidia Corp. has instructed component suppliers including Samsung Electronics Co. and Amkor Technology Inc. to stop production related to the H20 AI chip, the Information reported, citing unidentified sources.

Sharp losses in high-flying momentum stocks may present a dip-buying opportunity if history is any guide, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s trading desk.

Mutual funds are bleeding assets anew, just as their ETF cousins break fresh records.

If you’re a tech company not called Apple Inc., getting regular people to pay attention to your smartphone launch is a challenge. Your executives, who simply must be involved, are stuffy, wooden and, more often than not, white and old. Even worse, they’re not famous.

The US and European Union took the next steps to formalize their trade pact, detailing plans that could reduce tariffs on European automobiles within weeks while opening the door to new potential discounts for steel and aluminum.

Fresh from a bruising tussle with the White House over tariffs, Vietnam is confronting a different but no less delicate challenge.

In a profession that once relied on handwritten notes and leather-bound appointment books, financial advisors now stand at the cusp of a seismic shift. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a buzzword floating around fintech conferences.

This week’s column will explore the impact on team members and how to navigate a successful transition when your team has become like family and they care deeply about keeping the status quo in place.

In this article, we’ll unpack some of the most common misconceptions we see and help you reframe how you think about marketing. Because once you understand what truly works, you’ll be in a much stronger position to grow your firm with clarity and confidence.

If ever there were conditions that cried out for stimulus, China appears to have met them. Recent gauges of growth and inflation were more than just disappointing.

Despite Tuesday’s wobble, the narrative that has been fueling the sharp recovery in US equities since April remains supportive as the drivers of the rally are still intact.

There’s a new fox sniffing around the private credit henhouse. Last year, Apollo Global Management Inc. engineered an innovative trade for its insurance arm Athene Holding Ltd., with the help of an obscure Luxembourg-based firm. It’s fascinating and troubling in equal measure.

Companies touting their artificial intelligence and crypto-sector ties are speeding up their IPO timelines, after triple-digit first-day pops became a regular feature in this summer’s sizzling US market for new issues.

Traders are piling into one specific options wager that relies on a dovish Federal Reserve slashing interest rates by over a quarter-point next month.

What is one of your “hard truths” about money? An assumption like “money is power” that you have never questioned? “Truths” like these are financial beliefs, or money scripts, that often sound completely reasonable on the surface. But in my work as a financial therapist, I’ve learned that these money scripts aren’t facts.

A high-yield municipal-bond fund run by Capital Group saw the biggest inflow of any US-based exchange-traded fund on Friday, with an infusion of $1.54 billion.

In this article, I will discuss the automatic Social Security bridge strategy built into the AFP models and look at several hypothetical client situations to quantify how much a Social Security bridge strategy (SSBS) may actually enhance your retired client’s retirement security.

Imagine having the ability to withdraw funds during retirement without worrying about the tax bill that typically accompanies your withdrawals. With in-plan Roth conversions, you gain this advantage and enjoy the satisfaction of knowing your investment will grow tax-free.

A portfolio of longish-term bonds held to a shortish-term horizon did appear to benefit from a drop and suffer harm from a jump in interest rates. This article’s purpose is to sharpen that observation and remove the ambiguity.

Morgan Stanley had an unusual message when it approached four of the world’s biggest asset managers in July: they had progressed to the final round of one of the most sought-after private credit deals to date. But if they wanted to get to the finish line, they would need to pair up.

In the grand banking hall of Cipriani 42nd Street in Manhattan last week, crypto advocates gathered beneath marble columns and chandeliers to declare the arrival of a new financial era — one that goes way beyond Bitcoin.

A group of investors led by the owner of several boutique New York hotels agreed to take Soho House & Co. private in a $2.7 billion deal for the members’ club operator that’s struggled since its initial public offering.

Almost 15 years ago, I had a finance job in Austin which I did from my apartment in Manhattan. Although I was under constant pressure to move to Texas, I argued that because I worked in finance and media, leaving New York would hurt my career, and I’d have to be compensated for that loss.

Foreign investors are flooding into South Africa’s government bond market to take advantage of one of the best emerging-market trades of recent years.

While stock indexes generally give a broad idea of what is happening, they can greatly overlook the performance of many individual stocks.

There is a seasonality in asset class investment performance that is revealed in the history of calendar month returns. Based on history, investors should be “all in” U.S. stocks this August but “mostly out” in September.

While the US has indeed enjoyed a tremendously exceptional economic environment over the past 125 years, this has not translated into earnings growth that US companies could freely tap into.

My takeaway from the GPT-5 launch has been that while AI companies can tout overall performance on various benchmarks, these are becoming increasingly less relevant.

Vanguard Group has filed plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its priciest exchange-traded funds yet as the asset management giant seeks to beef up its actively managed lineup.

Emerging-market funds are pivoting to capture the artificial intelligence craze, with some investors predicting that booming technology spending will drive returns for years to come.

At the heart of why consumers in China save so much and spend so little, and why Xi Jinping and Donald Trump will struggle to change that behavior even if they want to, lies the country’s stock market.

Advanced Credit Solutions is a tiny finance firm based in Luxembourg that was founded by a Belgian and works with insurers. Despite its outwardly bland appearance, the business it does is anything but.

Advent is working on an offer to acquire U-blox Holding AG in a deal that could value the Swiss maker of positioning chips at more than 1 billion Swiss francs ($1.2 billion), according to people familiar with the matter.

Traders are snapping up risky assets of all stripes in the hope that falling US interest rates will add rocket fuel to an economy that’s so far been able to withstand the effects of Donald Trump’s trade war.

Apollo Global Management Inc. is aiming to invest in artificial intelligence, defense and infrastructure in Europe, where trillions in spending is needed, its co-head of European credit Tristram Leach said in a Bloomberg TV interview.

Main Capital, a Dutch buyout firm focused on software deals, is pushing to more than double its assets under management to €15 billion ($17.5 billion) in the next three years, betting on rising demand from US investors for European assets.

Bullish shares jumped 84% from the IPO price after the digital-asset exchange operator and owner of media outlet CoinDesk raised $1.1 billion in an initial public offering.

China’s economy slowed across the board in July with factory activity, investment and retail sales disappointing, suggesting Beijing’s crackdown on destructive price wars and spillovers from Donald Trump’s tariffs are casting a pall over the world’s No. 2 economy.

Hedge funds added exposure to technology giants including Microsoft Corp. and Netflix Inc. in the second quarter, a stretch that saw an initial surge in volatility due to President Donald Trump’s trade policies but ultimately ended with major benchmarks posting significant gains.

A pair of new bond exchange-traded funds is making it easier than ever for investors to avoid taxes on coupon payments.

UnitedHealth Group Inc. shares jumped after funds piled into the company, which has been hampered by a federal probe into its business practices and weakening results.

Wall Street banks are starting to cover firms that are not publicly traded. JPMorgan Chase & Co. kicked off the trend with a report on OpenAI Inc. Citigroup Inc. followed suit a week later with a list of roughly 100 large private companies it will focus on, predominantly in the tech sector.

President Donald Trump’s chaotic tariff policies have upended global trade and led to questions about whether the days of US exceptionalism and leadership that attracted capital from around the world are over.

America is a free country. People are allowed to take all sorts of ill-considered risks.

President Donald Trump’s move to extract a 15% sales tax from Nvidia Corp. on certain semiconductors sold in China did nothing to damp investor enthusiasm for the world’s most valuable company.

Apple Inc. is plotting its artificial intelligence comeback with an ambitious slate of new devices, including robots, a lifelike version of Siri, a smart speaker with a display and home-security cameras.

US short-dated bonds yields fell to their lowest levels in more than three months, reflecting conviction among traders that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in September.