Equity market

After two to three years into recovery from the region’s 2015-2016 downturn, one manager says there’s a rising chance of a shortened economic cycle.

When the financial clouds are gathering, your clients have preparations to make. Top of the list: reduce risk.

Some funds that were in the black still turned in a poor performance — it’s all relative.

Rising stock markets have encouraged individual investors to add to their holdings.

The firm’s equity-trading business head Ted Pick, promoted to lead its division of investment bankers and traders, is one possible successor.

Single-day drops are 20% bigger on average than gains, the widest gap in seven decades.

The bank has deviated from its guiding philosophy after making tactical sales of stocks perceived as being on the front lines of the tariff bombast.

Investors yanked $7.7 billion from emerging-market equity and investment-grade credit funds due to trade tensions and tightening monetary policies.

The funds have the potential to distort stock prices and to inspire a large-scale market sell-off.

The once-hot investing strategy seems to have cooled off. Advisor Allan Roth hasn't lost all hope, however.

The $55 billion of new cash last week from global investors was the most since 2013.

The asset manager is expected to make the payout after it finalizes the sale of its insurance unit to Phoenix Group.

It’s largely hedge funds that have been bailing out while equity and bond fund managers have remained on the sidelines.

“It’s bad when this happens on a Friday, because then people get freaked out over the weekend.”

Booms and busts both have the potential to create unrealistic outlooks on both ends of the performance spectrum.

While the S&P 500 has risen or fallen by more than 2% six times this year, it swung by twice that amount nine times in October 2008.

S&P 500 enjoys its biggest one-day jump since August 2015.

The latest influx, which closed late last year, brought in $75 million.

Some investors are demanding action on gun manufacturer and retailer stocks. Can financial advisors deliver?

It’s been a miserable week for higher-risk markets, as a trade war edged closer and the tech sector was roiled by Facebook’s scandal.