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JMP Expects a ‘Value-Creating Year’ for These 2 High-Yield Dividend Stocks
  • January 10, 2025

JMP Expects a ‘Value-Creating Year’ for These 2 High-Yield Dividend Stocks

Every investor is in the markets to find a return, and there are as many investing strategies as there are investors. Some prefer to play defense, looking for stocks that will offer slow and steady returns no matter what happens, while others prefer a more aggressive stance, finding higher-risk stocks that generate larger returns in the short run. And some investors prefer a balanced strategy, combining both low- and high-risk shares. Dividend stocks form a key part of any stock strategy, as eit

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Wall Street Warns Stocks Need ‘Goldilocks’ US Payrolls Report
  • January 10, 2025

Wall Street Warns Stocks Need ‘Goldilocks’ US Payrolls Report

(Bloomberg) -- Too many jobs? Stocks fall. Too few jobs? Stocks still fall.Most Read from BloombergWhat Robotaxis Brought San FranciscoNYC Condo Owners May Bear Costs of Landmark Green Building LawAmbitious High-Speed Rail Plans Advance in the Baltic RegionNYC’s Subway Violence Deters Drive to Bring Workers Back to OfficeDutch Central Bank Restores Amsterdam’s ‘Ugliest Building’That’s the message from Wall Street as fresh uncertainty about the rates path and the economy is creating a double tail

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The UK’s Horrible Start to the Year in Six Charts on Markets
  • January 10, 2025

The UK’s Horrible Start to the Year in Six Charts on Markets

(Bloomberg) -- UK assets have suffered a horrendous start to the new year as investors fret about the country’s finances, reigniting memories of a market crisis in 2022 that brought down former Prime Minister Liz Truss.Most Read from BloombergWhat Robotaxis Brought San FranciscoNYC Condo Owners May Bear Costs of Landmark Green Building LawAmbitious High-Speed Rail Plans Advance in the Baltic RegionNYC’s Subway Violence Deters Drive to Bring Workers Back to OfficeDutch Central Bank Restores Amste

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China’s Market Support Falls Short as Economic Gloom Deepens
  • January 9, 2025

China’s Market Support Falls Short as Economic Gloom Deepens

(Bloomberg) -- An escalation of China’s fight against bearish traders has failed to allay fears that the world’s second-largest economy is headed for a deflationary spiral. Most Read from BloombergWhat Robotaxis Brought San FranciscoNYC Condo Owners May Bear Costs of Landmark Green Building LawAmbitious High-Speed Rail Plans Advance in the Baltic RegionNYC’s Subway Violence Deters Drive to Bring Workers Back to OfficeDutch Central Bank Restores Amsterdam’s ‘Ugliest Building’The renewed effort by

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Global money market funds draw huge inflows on caution over potential tariffs
  • January 9, 2025

Global money market funds draw huge inflows on caution over potential tariffs

Investors piled into global money market funds in the week through Jan. 8, spurred by concerns over potential tariff increases with the upcoming change in the U.S. administration and caution ahead of a critical jobs report that could reshape expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts. According to LSEG Lipper data, investors channelled $158.73 billion into global money market funds, their second largest weekly net purchase since April 2020. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, set to take office on January 20, has pledged to impose a 10% tariff on all global imports to the U.S. Additionally, he has threatened to implement a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico on his first day in office.

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