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In 2023, seven tech stocks dominated the Nasdaq 100. Analysts expect 2024 to be different.

The stock market's largest companies have the best chance of weathering the Fed's rate hikes, BlackRock's strategists believe.

The exchange will direct its listed companies to pursue board diversity, including at least one member who is female and at least one who is an underrepresented minority or LGBTQ.

The exchange operator’s planned regulations are currently too narrow and should be amended, two groups wrote in comment letters to the SEC.

It won’t just change the composition of corporate board rooms. It may change conversations with clients too.

Efforts to diversify boardrooms have taken on new urgency this year as racial unrest called attention to income inequality and pressure mounted on banks and other publicly traded companies to do something about it.

Despite its risks, the fund has become popular with day traders, who pushed its volume to new highs this month, according to a report.

“Everyone is looking ahead to the elections and what tax policy could look like in various administrations," says Ben Huneke, head of investment solutions in the firm's wealth management division.

Investors are placing their bets on value funds after the category posted its worst quarter this century in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Economic damage wrought by the coronavirus has not stopped investors from piling into the companies able to churn out profits in the stay-at-home world.

“Americans need to know they have access to their money," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.

More bad news about the impact of the coronavirus further sapped investor spirits.

Following two recent mega-mergers in the bullion space, the fight to secure dominance is intensifying.

One theory for underperformance has been the long steady gains in markets since the financial crisis.

A member-owned market is the wrong response to rising fees.

By sending orders to an exchange they own, banks and brokers presumably can save money on trading costs.

“There’s just right now a heightened sensitivity to what can go wrong,” one strategist says.

It’s the latest sign the SEC is taking seriously complaints that fees for market data are too high.

Rising interest rates and trade war threats are promulgating the rout in equities.

Caution is key across global markets as investors try to gauge whether the selloff is a harbinger or a blip.