Over the last several weeks, nearly every bank and researcher on Wall Street has published their outlook for how the Federal Reserve will adjust interest rates in 2025. Every firm operates with the same data,

What Hartford Funds and Ned Davis Research found was that income stocks more than doubled the average annual return of non-payers -- 9.17% versus 4.27% -- and did so while being less volatile than the benchmark S&P 500. However, high-quality dividend stocks don't grow on trees and require some effort by investors to uncover.

The charges even have an added advantage of driving a wedge between Trump’s new SEC chair, Paul ­Atkins, and his enforcement staff that investigated the matter if ­Atkins raises these issues and looks to dismiss or impose a slap-on-the-wrist penalty.

Goldman estimates that companies could spend some $1.07 trillion on buying back their own stock this year. On the other side of the equation, global investors have poured about $143 billion into money market funds in the week ending Jan 10, the largest since March 25, 2020, Goldman said.

In the euphoric markets of 2024, the biggest sin was skepticism. A white-hot runup in risky assets made life miserable for anyone buying into the frenzy of fresh products that Wall Street was hawking to hedge and diversify.

Emboldened by a friendlier incoming Trump administration and their success last year in weakening draft capital hikes, big U.S. banks plan to push to overhaul other U.S. capital rules, according to industry executives.

Housing could be overvalued by anywhere from 10% to 25% based on how investors are acting.

The Wall Street Pepe presale crossed the $50 million mark on Friday, and now there are only 30 days left to grab a piece of the next Pepe.

Here's what you need to know about whether U.S. stock markets will be open on Martin Luther King Jr., Day this year.

Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) is a strong investment with robust financial health and growth potential in the semiconductor market. Read more here.

Buffett -- as well as his late great partner Charlie Munger -- would recommend avoiding leverage at all costs in your portfolio. Why? Because when the market turns (which it will inevitably do at times), the downside can wipe you out. The levered Nasdaq ETF went into a massive drawdown in 2022, and that was just one year of bad returns.