Now is the perfect time to check your positioning ahead of the new economic environment. Along with a 50 basis point interest rate hike, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced earlier this week that policymakers will look for “substantially more evidence to have...
Amid rising interest rates and a drastic rotation out of technology, fintech stocks have taken a beating this year, vastly underperforming the overall market. Global X FinTech ETF (FINX), which tracks an index of up to 100 fintech stocks, has plunged over 50% this year versus...
A mid-week rally lifted stocks last week, but by Friday, the market had given back much of the gains. The moves higher were driven by comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaling smaller interest rate hikes could start as early as the December 13 - 14 FOMC...
Investing in precious metals often seems to be reduced to two options. You can either buy physical gold/silver - the more straightforward, less risky option but often with the lowest returns, or invest in specific mining companies - which requires significant research and generally carries more...
The major indices inched higher for the holiday-shortened week as FOMC meeting minutes fueled optimism that the Fed may soon begin to ramp down from the historically significant 0.75% rate hikes it has implemented in the past four consecutive meetings. A “substantial majority of participants” thought that...