Over the last several weeks, nearly every bank and researcher on Wall Street has published their outlook for how the Federal Reserve will adjust interest rates in 2025. Every firm operates with the same data,

Another engine of value creation for Wall Street that has been slow in recent years is the IPO market — which is also set to pick up.

The charges even have an added advantage of driving a wedge between Trump’s new SEC chair, Paul ­Atkins, and his enforcement staff that investigated the matter if ­Atkins raises these issues and looks to dismiss or impose a slap-on-the-wrist penalty.

What Hartford Funds and Ned Davis Research found was that income stocks more than doubled the average annual return of non-payers -- 9.17% versus 4.27% -- and did so while being less volatile than the benchmark S&P 500. However, high-quality dividend stocks don't grow on trees and require some effort by investors to uncover.

Inflation worries remain despite strong earnings as JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon and David Solomon of Goldman Sachs weigh risks.

In the euphoric markets of 2024, the biggest sin was skepticism. A white-hot runup in risky assets made life miserable for anyone buying into the frenzy of fresh products that Wall Street was hawking to hedge and diversify.

Goldman estimates that companies could spend some $1.07 trillion on buying back their own stock this year. On the other side of the equation, global investors have poured about $143 billion into money market funds in the week ending Jan 10, the largest since March 25, 2020, Goldman said.

Emboldened by a friendlier incoming Trump administration and their success last year in weakening draft capital hikes, big U.S. banks plan to push to overhaul other U.S. capital rules, according to industry executives.

The Wall Street Pepe presale crossed the $50 million mark on Friday, and now there are only 30 days left to grab a piece of the next Pepe.

Shareholders of Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) just had a fantastic year. In fact, only six stocks in the S&P 500 have a higher percentage of sell ratings than Palantir, and the median price target of $39 per share implies a 45% downside from its current price of $71.

U.S. stock indexes closed their best week in two months with a flourish on Friday. The S&P 500 climbed 1% to clinch its first winning week in the last three. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 334 points,