More than one-third of Americans do not own stocks, and a new BlackRock survey reveals that the holdouts cite a lot of reasons for not being in the market. In its People & Money report published on Thursday, BlackRock listed some of the reasons people who don’t invest say they stay on the sidelines. Among…
Goldman Sachs’s top executive is feeling good about markets, with some important caveats. David Solomon, the bank’s CEO, struck an upbeat tone when speaking about stocks and the US economy at Italian Tech Week on Friday. Despite some risks on his radar, the CEO of the investment bank said he was generally unbothered about the…
The stock market has been on a months-long rally but the road ahead isn’t necessarily clear. On Monday, researchers at HSBC’s global investment team said they identified a handful of downside risks that could potentially “derail” the rally in stocks since President Donald Trump’s tariffs first rocked financial markets in early April. The bank said…
The moment investors have been waiting for all year is probably at hand. Markets have been clamoring for the Federal Reserve to resume its rate-cutting cycle, and the central bank finally looks poised to trim its target rate at this week’s policy meeting. The odds for a cut have risen steadily in the last few…
If you’ve been building up a big cash reserve over the last few years, you’re not alone. You’re also probably not alone in wishing you’d had the money in stocks. Cash has generated meaningful yields since 2022 after the Federal Reserve went on a rate-hike spree, drawing record amounts into money market funds. The total…
The stock market’s hot streak might soon come to an abrupt end, Goldman Sachs said. In a note to clients, the bank said that its equity asymmetry framework — one of its gauges that assesses stocks based on the market environment and the latest economic data — was sending a signal that the risk for…
The market sees about an 85% chance that the Federal Reserve delivers a rate cut in September — but doing so could put the stock market on track to enter bubble territory in the coming months. That’s according to strategists at Société Générale, who said they saw the possibility that the S&P 500 becomes overheated…