There Are No Good Reasons to Buy Stocks

Everyone agrees: Stocks have had an amazing run. But can it continue? Justin Lahart lays out the case below for a stock market that’s run out of reasons to keep rising. Richard Barley takes on a more bullish case in his column, Actually, Here’s Why Stocks Can Keep Going Up. Why buy stocks? For the past …

These articles, written quarterly, take a look at stocks in these “ultimate stock-pickers” portfolios a few different ways. Sometimes we display the top 10 stocks by conviction; sometimes we home in on the top 10 stock purchases. Sometimes we feature the top 10 stocks that were sold from the portfolios, and …

Canada is emerging as a hub for bitcoin and cryptocurrency stocks amid “a virtuous circle” of expertise and business, backed by a capital markets ecosystem that supports small companies, particularly on the TSX Venture Exchange, Fricker said. While that system has been geared toward miners and oil …

… for suggesting this format.) If you are not familiar with the BaR, you can read a quick overview here. A series of articles I wrote as I developed the BaR can be read here, here (first of three-part series on the road to recession), and here. The data sources I use for the BaR are shown at the end of this article.

An agreement on Brexit divorce terms helped spur gains in global stock markets and U.K. lenders Friday shortly ahead of a key reading on the U.S. labor market. The Stoxx Europe 600 rose 0.8% midday, led by a 2.8% rise in the banking sector, its biggest component. Stocks in Japan and Hong Kong ended …

Everyone agrees: Stocks have had an amazing run. But can it continue? Richard Barley lays out the case below that despite the incredible increase in stock markets, there are huge pockets of value, especially abroad. Justin Lahart makes the bearish case in his column, There Are No Good Reasons to Buy …

The S&P 500 ended a four-day losing streak, with industrial and consumer discretionary shares among the best performers in a modest but broad rally that saw two stocks gain for every one that dropped. Gold fell to a four-month low. The pound jumped on speculation that Ireland and Britain were close to a …

In a listless day of trading for U.S. stocks, the S&P 500 wavered between slight gains and losses before narrowly notching its longest losing streak since March. As the index fell for a fourth straight session, analysts said investors were growing nervous about markets trading near record highs as well as …

U.S. stocks put the brakes on a global equity selloff as technology shares advanced. … have succumbed to a bout of profit taking this week, while U.S. equities struggled to maintain gains, as traders move out of some of 2017’s biggest winners, including technology shares and emerging-market stocks.

Foreign-investor money is pouring into the U.S. stock market at the fastest clip in years, ending a long period of selling and providing a fresh boost to a more than eight-year rally. Overseas buyers have pumped $66.4 billion into U.S. stocks this year through September in their biggest buying spree since …