With overall valuations historically "rich," small changes in two "conventional wisdoms" can have out-sized influences on daily market action. Are you surprised by choppy stock trading, ...

To ensure future success, businesses need to start planning and preparing to adapt during the next 18 months. In a virtual meeting hosted by ActionIQ, executives from tech businesses discussed the new ...

Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, risk management, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) ...

Increasing income inequality may partly explain volatility in the American political climate, according to pollster Molly Murphy. Despite continued economic growth since the end of the Great Recession ...

Atai Capital, an investment management firm, recently released its third-quarter 2023 investor letter. A copy of the same can be downloaded here. The fund declined by 5.8% in the third quarter which ...

With investments, volatility refers to changes in an asset's or market's price — especially as measured against its usual behavior or a benchmark. Volatility is often expressed as a percentage: If a ...

Investors who are exhausted by Wall Street’s recent volatility might find comfort in the old adage that you should “sell in May and go away.” As the name suggests, it essentially recommends unloading ...

Why are the prices of stocks and other assets so volatile? Efficient capital markets theory implies that stock prices should be much less volatile than actually observed, reflecting an unrealistic ...

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IN DECEMBER 2004 Microsoft paid a massive $33 billion dividend to its shareholders. The largest payment of its kind, it made up 6% of the increase in Americans’ personal income that year. Examples of ...