A screen shows trading indexes at the New York Stock Exchange on April 3, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters While Wall Street spent the past week sweating over whether President Donald Trump’s now-altered tariff plan would push the economy into a recession or ignite a bear market, Rachel Hazit knew exactly what to do. The…
Both retail and professional investors have become more bullish in recent weeks. Allocations to stocks are rising; allocations to bonds are declining. You can’t blame them for getting excited. There’s good reason for exuberance: The soft landing remains the dominant investing paradigm; The Fed is cutting rates going into a soft landing (very unusual); Corporate America has…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock exchange during morning trading on May 17, 2024. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Stock futures slid early Wednesday following a sour start to October and the final quarter of 2024. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 158 points, while S&P 500…