Trillions Of Dollars In Index Funds Are Distorting The S&P 500
Investors who poured trillions of dollars into index funds on the conviction that no one can beat the market may actually be making it easier to do just that.
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Here’s Another Sign That Markets Have Gone Nuts And Everyone Is Chasing Everything
Critical information for the U.S. trading day.
Bulls Gather Around Asia Stocks for 2021
After narrowly beating their US peers for the first time in three years in 2020, Asian stocks could see another strong year, analysts say.
US Gas Storage Stocks Set for Higher-Than-Average Draw in Final Full Week of 2020
Denver — US natural gas in storage likely fell by a margin much higher than the five-year average once again last week despite the Christmas holiday, which typically douses demand.
Markets Split as S&P 500 Falls From Record High Amid Rising COVID-19 Cases
Weekly U.S. jobless claims came in lower than expected.
Rear Vision Mirror No Longer Reasonable Guide For Investors
A couple of decades ago, a balance sheet might have provided useful insight into a company’s value. Today the listed value of most companies far exceeds of the value of…
Important Factors Driving Bitcoin’s Drastic Growth in 2020
At the time of this writing, the cryptocurrency known as Bitcoin has seen its value skyrocket to around $18,000 (11/19/2020 12 AM EST) after dropping down to around just $4,840…
U.S. Futures Slide After Spat Over Fed Stimulus: Markets Wrap
U.S. futures retreated Friday after a dispute between Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and the Federal Reserve over its emergency lending facilities. European futures and Asian stocks were little changed.
Here’s How Bad Commercial Real-Estate Pain Could Get For Banks, Other Lenders
Low rates and rosy assumptions about how much rent properties might collect helped fuel the record $5 trillion debt boom in U.S. commercial real estate over the past decade.
Online Shopping Could Be Up 35% This Holiday Season, and Two More Numbers to Know
Wall Street’s consensus estimate for S&P 500 earnings per share is $33.11 in the third quarter. It would be a more than 21% drop from a year earlier.