Finance

Personal Finance

Running the Numbers: Will 60/40 Split of Stocks, Bonds Still Yield Retirement Security?

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Is Wall Street’s golden ratio, the 60/40 division of portfolios between stocks and bonds, losing its luster?

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Markets

Wall Street Braces for Government Shutdown Chaos

Fitting for 2025, a government shutdown is all but guaranteed to deliver even more uncertainty into the macroeconomic mix.

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Markets

Relaxed Rules Poised to Expand Day Trading for Retail Investors

A US regulator last week cleared the path for more retail investors to participate in day trading by dropping barriers put up in 2001.

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Economics

Is Powell Snubbing Interest in 2nd Fed Rate Cut?

In a speech in Rhode Island, Jerome Powell reminded Wall Street and the world that The Fed remains in a “challenging situation.”

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Finance

Investors Have a Question About SEC’s Policy Shift on Arbitration: Cui Bono?

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Class-action securities settlements in 88 cases totaled about $3.7 billion in 2024, according to data collected by Cornerstone Research.

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Industrials

Caught Between Painful Present and Optimistic Outlook: Copper’s Tariff Price Odyssey

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Demand for copper, already one of the most commonly used metals in the world, has surged amid the AI computing boom.

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Private Equity

Carlyle, Goldman Spot Dollar Signs in Private Equity’s Liquidity Logjam

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Last year marked the first time since Bain & Co started tracking data in 2005 that the private equity industry shrunk.

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