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.