Wall Street’s $5.1 Trillion Triple-Witching Is Next Market Test
Just as Wall Street traders come to grips with the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cut, Friday’s US options expiration threatens to whipsaw the market some more.
Just as Wall Street traders come to grips with the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cut, Friday’s US options expiration threatens to whipsaw the market some more.
Asian equities were primed for muted moves following declines on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve’s half-point interest rate cut on Wednesday.
An ETF that just last month was dubbed the most volatile to ever hit Wall Street has already been upstaged, after the debut of a competing product that adds even more leverage.
The price increments at which thousands of stocks and ETFs are quoted look set for an overhaul Wednesday, when the US Securities and Exchange Commission votes on final rules to reduce them to less than 1 cent.
It might just be the most audacious bid on Wall Street to exploit newfangled AI tools to mimic the legends of finance.
Investors are betting on a revival of undervalued stocks once the Federal Reserve starts cutting interest rates.
Confidence among US home builders rose in September for the first time in six months, just before the Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates from the current two-decades high.
Two Saudi Arabian investment firms are set to launch exchange traded funds that will be the country’s first to track Hong Kong shares and are expected to raise close to $1 billion, offering the latest sign of growing ties between the oil rich kingdom and China.
About 40,000 individual investors in Vanguard Group’s index-tracking funds participated in a pilot program that allowed them to make their viewpoints known on important issues facing shareholders.
An ETF issuer, best known for riding thematic trades, is seeking to launch a new diversified investment strategy that channels the playbook of university endowments — including bets on the booming world of private markets.
Gold may face a minor, near-term setback if the Federal Reserve opts for just a 25-basis-point cut this week, but the metal will subsequently rally to a record aided by rising flows into bullion-backed exchange-traded funds, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Investors piled money into exchange-traded funds that buy emerging-market bonds on Friday amid optimism that developing-nation debt will get a boost from a highly anticipated Federal Reserve rate cut this week.
The election, the economy, just how big this week’s US interest rate cut will be — it has all left the market on edge. Savita Subramanian, an equity and quant strategist at Bank of America Corp., wants investors to avoid risks.
Emerging-market local-currency stocks and bonds have become increasingly sensitive to moves in the dollar over the past decade as foreign investors play an ever larger role, according to the Bank for International Settlements.
Investors in the Gulf are about to get their first exchange-traded fund tracking the German market which has been trading near record highs.
A chasm is forming between the haves and have-nots in the rapidly expanding private credit asset class.