US household debt has reached a record and more borrowers are struggling to keep up.

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Nothing has been setting the US bond market’s direction this year more than the monthly inflation figures. This week will be no exception.

Wall Street strategists are worried that US stocks are on a trip to nowhere, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go along for the ride.

In the spotlight today are the “Magnificent Seven,” which include Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla. These seven stocks account for over 30% of the S&P 500 by market capitalization.

Capitalism has had an even better run recently, with the globalization of prosperity.

The biggest US tech stocks are not only a bet on innovation but also a possible hedge against inflation, according to some respondents in the latest Bloomberg Markets Live Pulse survey.

Novo Nordisk A/S plans to sell bonds for the first time in more than two years to help finance its large program to expand production of its blockbuster treatments.

Faced with the greatest challenge of the 21st century, America is giving up.

Everyone is worried about the excessively high level of US government debt. Everyone, that is, except America’s creditors.

Here we go again. Brace for the latest dose of critical data on US inflation over the next three days, as the New York Federal Reserve publishes its monthly survey of consumers’ inflation expectations Monday, followed by the Labor Department’s report on producer prices Tuesday and consumer prices Wednesday.

Google DeepMind has released a new version of AlphaFold, a landmark tool for predicting protein structures, that puts the artificial intelligence software on a path to make breakthroughs in biology research and bolster a business that Google’s AI chief says could be worth north of $100 billion.

Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman said she doesn’t expect it will be appropriate for the Fed to cut interest rates in 2024, pointing to persistent inflation in the first several months of the year.

Hedge fund firm Deer Park Road Management Co. is set to pounce on beaten-down prices in the residential mortgage market on expectations that the US Federal Reserve will start lowering rates later this year.

When Microsoft Corp. invested more than $10 billion for a chunk of OpenAI, scientists inside its storied research division were rankled about being shoved aside for a newer player from outside the company.

On the heels of Apple’s latest earnings report, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled “Apple is Buffett’s Best Investment,” which discusses how Apple became an oversized investment of Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway.

Guessing the direction of interest rates is no easier than any other tactical or market timing decision. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note is just under 3.9%. That is about 100 basis points less than it was a few months ago. Fed policy is uncertain, inflation has not been fully controlled, and fiscal deficits loom as a long-term risk for yields to go higher.

In the US stock market, investors have been conditioned to hold onto their winners. The Magnificent Seven were so-named because most of them — both individually and collectively — have delivered consistently extraordinary returns for a decade or so.

There is broad agreement that the US housing market needs more homes . There is also broad agreement that affordability needs to improve. But it doesn't necessarily follow that we should build more affordable homes.

Oil advanced for a third day to trade at a one-week high as US jobs data supported the case for Federal Reserve rate cuts this year, buoying risk assets including crude.

Apple Inc. will deliver some of its upcoming artificial intelligence features this year via data centers equipped with its own in-house processors, part of a sweeping effort to infuse its devices with AI capabilities.

There’s a persistent mystery about Mark Zuckerberg, and it’s not the one about his new chain necklace. The chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc. has spent billions of dollars building powerful artificial intelligence models and is giving that technology away for free.

Anshul Pradhan and Stephen Stanley both saw the current US bond market coming. They just don’t agree on where it’s going.

As the market for initial public offerings bounces back after two lifeless years, investors who’ve been impatiently waiting for their payoff are finally getting some returns.

It probably escaped your attention, but the Internal Revenue Service recently piloted a program to help Americans cope with their notoriously complex tax system.

Insiders at the Magnificent Seven tech companies are following Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg in realizing gains from the stocks that have largely powered the boom in US equity markets.

Points of Return often argues for caution on stocks. It never argues to get out of them altogether. That’s because history demonstrates that over long time spans it’s very dangerous to be out of the market altogether.

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The advisory profession faces a critical juncture. Advisors must adapt to changing client expectations and deliver on the full promise of financial advice or become irrelevant.

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Amazon.com Inc. plans to spend $9 billion expanding its cloud computing infrastructure in Singapore, the latest global tech company to boost investment in Southeast Asia.

The US has revoked licenses allowing Huawei Technologies Co. to buy semiconductors from Qualcomm Inc. and Intel Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, further tightening export restrictions against the Chinese telecom equipment maker.

US chip production is poised to explode in coming years, helping ease a risky dependency on East Asia, according to a projection by the Semiconductor Industry Association.

Investors’ hopes for rate cuts this year have faded. The past quarter’s economic data showed that the inflation battle is not over; whether the Fed eases now depends on the data, a point Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve have repeated ad nauseam.

At last weekend’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. annual meeting, one shareholder asked Warren Buffett how his auto insurer Geico might fare in the event that autonomous-driving technology succeeds in slashing the number of accidents, as Tesla Inc.’s Elon Musk suggested it would on an earnings call last month.

Results from the world’s biggest technology companies have brought mostly good news. There’s just one missing piece: Nvidia Corp.

They subdued stocks, claimed a chunk of foreign exchange and muscled into the commodity market. Now high-tech trading firms like Citadel Securities LLC and Jane Street are pushing deeper than ever into fixed income.

The global bond rally ignited by hopes of lower interest rates in the US will face its first big test on Tuesday, when the Treasury kicks off $125 billion of sales this week.

The housing market is a big worry for Democrats as we move closer to US elections in November. It’s one of the primary reasons measures of consumer confidence remain depressed as a combination of high prices and high mortgage rates keep homes out of reach for many.

The breeze of this earnings season has been near perfect. First-quarter earnings, now published by 80% plus of the S&P 500’s members, put the index’s profits on course for their strongest growth since the second quarter of 2022, when higher inflation and higher rates began to bite.

Outside Business Activities (OBAs) are more than just side hustles for financial advisors – they’re ethical minefields that have drawn increasing scrutiny from regulatory bodies like FINRA. Since intensifying its focus in 2018, FINRA has highlighted the importance of transparency and adherence to compliance in these endeavors in its most recent report.

Even though taste tests had confirmed that participants preferred the taste of New Coke, when presented with the reality of no longer having traditional Coke available anymore, consumers turned away from New Coke in droves.

A few years ago, I was speaking to financial advisors about saving, spending, financial well-being, and life well-being.

When each of my children was born, I had their application for a 529 college fund filled out, mailed, and funded with the first $100 before they were released from the hospital.

The Franklin Templeton Dynamic Municipal Bond ETF (FLMI) represents the best ideas of the issuer's municipal bonds research team.

Two years after Wall Street’s love affair with fast-twitch stock options began, Bloomberg’s latest Markets Live Pulse survey suggests the unprecedented boom still has room to run — even as almost half of respondents fear an eventual blowup.

For the first time in nearly a generation, fixed income is living up to its name.

An April rout in emerging-market bonds and currencies has some former bulls turning negative on the outlook for the asset class.