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Text size Japan has had to intervene to support the sliding yen for the first time since 1998, even as it tries to keep its interest rates low. Akio Kon/Bloomberg The world has been hooked on cheap money for years. Now we’re witnessing what withdrawal looks like. Lifting interest rates …

Illustration by Elias Stein Text size The case for active management—stock picking—holds that funds should outperform indexes when markets crumble. Alas, that hasn’t occurred this time. Morningstar research found that only 40% of nearly 3,000 active funds outperformed their average passive peer over the 12 months through June. That rate …

shapecharge / iStock.com As you age, it’s generally a good idea to start slowly reducing the risk in your portfolio. When you are young, not only do you have a rising income stream coming from your job, you have plenty of time to recover from any bear markets. But, if …

This table of high PEG and P/E growth stocks can give you a quick rundown of some potentially overvalued companies using these ratios. It’s possible to filter your selection using the dropdown menus for the country, sector, and market cap so you can more granular comparisons. For example, if you’d …

Global government-bond markets are stuck in what BofA Securities strategists are calling one of their greatest bear markets ever — which, in turn, is threatening the ease with which investors will be able to exit from the world’s most-crowded trades, if needed. Those trades include long positions in the dollar, …

Text size The Bitcoin 2022 Conference in Miami. Marco Bello/Getty Images If “Waiting for Godot” were set in the crypto-verse, its titular character would be an institutional investor. Crypto enthusiasts expect banks, pension funds, and other money managers to put massive amounts of money into crypto tokens and industries, but …

A 23-year-old self-described “Crypto King” from Whitby, Ontario, a town east of Toronto, allegedly owes at least $35 million to investors in what is shaping up to be a cryptocurrency scam. More than 150 investors who handed over a collective $20 million to Aiden Pleterski and his company, AP Private …

Stocks fell sharply after the Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it was raising its benchmark rate by three-quarters of a percentage point as it battles inflation, with the S&P 500 continuing a slide described by Bespoke Investment Group as its third leg down.   “Where this bear market ultimately bottoms is …

Text size Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Under Gary Gensler’s leadership, the Securities and Exchange Commission is looking at a sweeping range of reforms. Wednesday morning, the SEC chair welcomed a panel of investment experts to discuss: agency proposals on activist investors’ disclosures; swap position …

Text size In a rough market, almost all stock funds stand to fall. Dreamstime Proponents of active management say that funds that don’t just track an index should outperform when markets start to fall. That hasn’t been the case. Research by Morningstar found that about 40% of nearly 3,000 active funds …