Just three years after launching its first ETFs, AllianceBernstein (AB) recently reached $10 billion in assets. While index-based ETFs from iShares, Vanguard and State Street Investment Management continue to dominate the industry, there has been room for newer entrants to also succeed. “Over...
Artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and machine learning are just a few of the obvious tech innovations dominating the majority of investor attention spans these days. Along with the companies focused on these technologies, attention also diverts to those integral to meeting hardware...
Our global markets watchlist tracks nine prominent indexes from economies around the world. The list includes the S&P 500 from the United States, TSX from Canada, the FTSE 100 from England, the DAXK from Germany, the CAC 40 from France, the Nikkei 225...
Fixed income investors know that bond prices and yields move inverse of one another. That means when yields decline, prices rise. And that’s perhaps the biggest reason the Fed moves are so widely monitored.
The price/yield scenario holds true across the bond universe. That...
While energy policy in the US tends to be polarizing, nuclear energy enjoys broad support from both sides of the aisle. Republicans are drawn to nuclear’s energy security and reliability. Democrats see the appeal in its zero-emission power generation, which is critical for...
With some help from the Federal Reserve’s September rate cut, small-cap stocks appear to be finding a groove. Finally. For the 90 days ending October 9, the widely followed Russell 2000 Index returned more than 10%.
That’s a solid starting point for a corner...