Global markets are wobbling, stoking investor worries over portfolio allocation and how to navigate the current climate — sit tight, rotate into defensive stocks, or opt for cash? The turbulence is being driven by a confluence of factors ranging from stretched tech valuations to shifting rate expectations and softening global data. Gold prices have fallen … Read more
The Anthropic website on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Money keeps flowing into artificial intelligence companies but out of AI stocks. In what looks like — once again — a scenario of the left hand scratching the right, Microsoft and Nvidia will be investing a combined $15 billion into … Read more
Gold prices have been smashing new records this year, and a growing cadre of wealthy investors and family offices are no longer content to let their gold bars sit idle in vaults. They are leasing their bullion to refiners, jewelers, and fabricators for interest, defying gold’s reputation as a non-yielding asset. “We’ve got a whole … Read more
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Stock futures are little changed on Monday night after tech losses dragged the broader market lower as investors await Nvidia‘s earnings report and delayed jobs data this week. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 52 points, or 0.1%. S&P futures … Read more
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York on November 14, 2025. Charly Triballeau | Afp | Getty Images Stock futures were mixed on Monday following a choppy week in which valuation fears, a rotation within the market and a recalibration of Federal Reserve rate cut expectations pressured … Read more
BEIJING — Alibaba is helping the Chinese military to target the U.S., according to a White House memo, the Financial Times reported Friday. The memo alleged “Alibaba provides tech support for Chinese military ‘operations’ against targets in the U.S.,” according to the FT. The FT said it could not independently verify the claims, and did … Read more
Visitors in front of the Cinderella Castle at Tokyo Disneyland in Tokyo, Japan on Jan. 17, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japan on Monday said it dispatched a senior foreign ministry official to China to ease rising tensions, public broadcaster NHK reported, as tourism-exposed stocks in Tokyo slumped amid the diplomatic feud. Masaaki … Read more
A street sign is seen near the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, New York, U.S., August 7, 2025. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters New York Federal Reserve President John Williams met with Wall Street’s dealers last week about a key lending facility, the Financial Times reported, citing three individuals familiar with the … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about the U.S. government shutdown, during the swearing-in ceremony for Sergio Gor as U.S. Ambassador to India, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Nov. 10, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump bought at least $82 million in corporate and municipal bonds from late August to … Read more
Whenever the stocks of companies that we think are attractive purely on their underlying business fundamentals start to sell off, we know we want to buy. The question is: When to buy? Valuation is the primary factor to consider. However, in a market sentiment-driven decline like we saw Thursday, valuation isn’t really the focus for … Read more