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Brian Blank is a finance scholar and Fed watcher who researches how companies navigate downturns and make financial decisions, as well as how markets process information. Brandy Hadley is a finance professor who leads a student-managed investment fund and studies corporate decision-making and incentives. Together, they’re also the resident economic…

Back-to-back years of nearly 25% gains for the big-cap S&P 500 raises the bar for stock mutual funds in 2025.

What a wonderful year 2024 has been for investors

Since the Great Recession, the Fed has mandated banks keep capital on hand in case of another crisis

The stress test has helped banks more than double their capital levels over the past decade-plus.

The dollar index (DXY00 ) today is slightly higher by +0.06%, extending Monday's gain of +0.39% and recovering a bit farther after last Friday's -0.73% decline. The dollar is seeing support from improved US interest rate differentials, with the 10-year T-note yield today rising +3 bp and adding to Monday's...

March S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESH25) are up +0.14%, and March Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQH25) are up +0.18% this morning ahead of a holiday-shortened pre-Christmas trading session.

As consumer spending picks up and disposable income rises, the specialty retail sector is set for a significant leap. Hence, investors looking to ride this wave could consider Arko (ARKO), Murphy USA (MUSA), and Sally Beauty (SBH) stocks for solid gains. Read on….

Despite fears they may be jobless soon, today’s job seekers' average reservation wage is $81,147—up by almost $20,000 since March 2020.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Monday rose +0.67%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed up +0.22%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed +0.93%. March E-mini S&P futures (ESH25 ) rose +0.62%, and March E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQH25 )...