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The Financial Times points out that, on the campaign trail last year, Donald Trump vowed to “immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One”. Yet, since his return to the White House in January, inflation has remain…
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Active ETFs are giving advisors more choices than ever, and more homework to go with them. Issuers launched 953 active strategies in 2025, accounting for 84% of all new ETFs that year, and the momentum has carried into …
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WASHINGTON/DUBAI, July 27 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States was having "good talks" with Iran and there was a chance of a deal over their conflict, but warned that U.S. strikes would re…
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It’s becoming increasingly clear that tariff tensions between the United States and the rest of the world won’t be going away any time soon. Last Friday, the U.S. imposed a series of tariffs on 60 different trading part…
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Last time, we discussed how legacy bond benchmarks still carry the fingerprints of a market that no longer exists. This week, we turn to one of the most consequential artifacts still embedded in traditional bond benchma…
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Single-stock derivative strategies, crypto miners, and energy commodities led in performance across non-leveraged ETFs last week. Broad market momentum shifted toward high-beta tech exposure and commodity inflation hedg…
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Small-caps have produced modest but healthy gains this year. After a slow start, the notable small-caps index Russell 2000 has returned 17.3% YTD. That has helped that same index return 30.7% over the last 12 months. Sm…
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Shares of semiconductor giant Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) have more than doubled this year. The stock, one of the bellwethers in the artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor space, traded higher last week following t…
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Germany’s IFO Business Climate Index rose to 86.6 in July 2024, surpassing analyst expectations of 85.8 and marking a modest improvement in business sentiment across Europe’s largest economy.
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WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) – U.S. inflation increased further in May, breaking above 4.0% for the first time in three years as the Middle East conflict boosted energy prices, and keeping an interest rate increase fro…
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Amentum (AMTM) announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) selected them to negotiate a phased lease at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The proposed publ…
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The rapid expansion of the collateralized loan obligations (CLO) has introduced ETF options for investors, namely funds that are passive or actively managed. While passive indexes offer easy access to CLO exposure, the …
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Thornburg Investment Management’s newest income ETF, THOR, was built around a pattern that has quietly powered much of the market’s gains. That pattern is rising valuations, not stronger earnings.
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The active ETF landscape has evolved dramatically over the last six years. Few asset managers illustrate this shift better than T. Rowe Price. The firm’s active ETF lineup recently crossed the $30 billion asset mark. Ad…
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At the turn of the year 2025-26, economic growth surprised on the upside while financial market sentiment remained strong despite high uncertainty. The war in the Middle East is now putting this resilience to the test. …
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TCL Electronics is marking a strategic shift by negotiating the sale of a 51% majority stake in its sole open-cell display manufacturing plant in Tirupati, India. The deal is reportedly valued between $600 million and $…
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Clearly, there must be a typo in that headline. I’m the one who is always preaching about getting the yield you deserve. So, why would I even consider buying a company that can’t keep its payouts reliable?
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Silvana Marques was one of thousands of Brazilians who flocked to São Paulo’s most famous art museum one afternoon last week. But the 51-year-old teacher wasn’t there to marvel over fog-filled London landscapes at Masp’…
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On the domestic front, arguably one of the more notable events in 2026 has been the change in Federal Reserve leadership, ushering in a new era for how the U.S. central bank conducts monetary policy and how its actions …
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The US political climate makes it very hard for the US government to raise taxes, so the tariff revenue is just too useful (Daniel Torok/Official White House Photo)
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Since the end of World War II, the United Nations has served as the world’s leading international body dedicated to promoting peace, security, and cooperation. From conflict resolution to climate action, it has played a…
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BRASILIA, July 24 (Reuters) – The Brazilian government on Friday reduced by 5.7 billion reais ($1.12 billion) a spending curb needed to comply with its fiscal framework due to lower than expected mandatory expenditures…
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The ETF market saw a push in capital away from the concentrated U.S. tech sector to defensive broad market exposure, short duration bonds, and commodities. The shift in flows is amplified by the semiconductor market pul…
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The S&P 500 ended its choppy week in the red, ultimately finishing with a loss of 0.6%. This marks the second straight weekly decline, the longest streak since late March.