U.S. companies are executing stock buybacks at a record pace in 2025. Nearly $1 trillion in buyback announcements have been made so far this year, putting 2025 on track to surpass...

Just days after the U.S. central bank cut interest rates by 25 basis points for the first time in almost a year, gold continues to shine. On Monday, it reached a new high of...

Analyst Weekly, September 22, 2025 After nearly 15 years in the shadows, small caps might finally be ready for their close-up. Once the darlings of Wall Street, they’ve...

Analyst Weekly September 15, 2025 From EM tech strength to record US buybacks, market drivers are stacking up ahead of the Fed’s first rate cut of 2025. With US growth still...

Analyst Weekly, September 8. 2025 Markets are juggling mixed signals. Payrolls disappointed, pushing the Fed closer to cuts. China’s recovery is narrow, with e-commerce and...

Analyst Weekly, September 1, 2025 Tariffs in Limbo The US Court of Appeals just clipped US’s tariff wings. On Friday, the Federal Circuit ruled that the president can’t use...

Every era of investing has its “new, new thing”: railroads in the 1800s, the Nifty Fifty in the 1970s, dot-coms in the 1990s. Today, it is artificial intelligence. Like its...

On Wednesday, we await the quarterly report from a company many consider the most important in the world. Investor expectations for Nvidia are already sky-high, but with the...

Analyst Weekly, August 25, 2025 Rate Cut Now in Play Fed Chair Jerome Powell used his Jackson Hole speech to signal a shift: a rate cut is back on the table, possibly as soon as...

The S&P 500 index has long been considered the gold standard of passive investing. It offers average returns at average risk, which might seem like a reasonable choice for...