News and Analysis

What you invest in these days may not just depend on your opinion of the economy, the Fed, or the debt ceiling. Instead, it may be all about your timeframe. Often, when I...

The debt ceiling drama is heating up.  We’re now weeks away from the US potentially defaulting on its debt — an unprecedented event that could cause mass unemployment and...

The Consumer Price Index is the most-watched economic report on US inflation. We get updates on it around the middle of every month. On Wednesday, we’ll get April’s report of...

There seems to be one common thread weaving through all the issues the markets care about: debt. The Fed is trying to control the economy with it, politicians are arguing over...

Another bank just bit the dust. First Republic was closed by the FDIC and bought by JPMorgan, marking the second-biggest US bank failure on record. Now, three out of the four...

For a while, it was awfully quiet out there. Too quiet. The S&P 500 just went a whole month without a 1% drop for the first time since the bear market began. And the VIX...

Housing was one of the first sectors to fall victim to rising interest rates after a decade-long boom. And today, housing demand seems to be coming alive again, defying the...

eToro platform data shows 60% growth in over-55s investing in popular AI stocks vs 41% growth for 18-34-year-olds C3.ai, Intel and NVIDIA see biggest QoQ jumps in opened...

New survey from eToro finds Americans are eager to start financial education at an earlier age, even as they express discomfort discussing financial matters with friends and...

The world has been holding its breath for about a year now, waiting for a recession that still hasn’t come. It’s taught us that while it’s easy to call for a recession — and...