Andrew Fox | The Image Bank | Getty Images”Dead” investors often beat the living — at least, when it comes to investment returns.A “dead” investor refers to an inactive trader who adopts a “buy and hold” investment strategy. This often leads to better returns than active trading, which generally incurs higher costs and taxes and stems from impulsive, emotional decision-making, experts said.Doing nothing, it turns out, generally yields better results for the average investor than taking a more active role in one’s portfolio, according to investment experts.The “biggest threat” to investor returns is human behavior, not government policy or company…
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Arseniy45 | Istock | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump may hope his tariffs jump-start a renaissance in manufacturing in the United States, but the reality is not so simple, according to experts.The president announced sweeping tariffs Wednesday, including a baseline 10% levy across the board on all imports. He also targeted specific countries with steep tariffs, such as 34% on China, 20% on the European Union and 46% on Taiwan.Trump said “jobs and factories will come roaring back.””We will supercharge our domestic industrial base, we will pry open foreign markets and break down foreign trade barriers and ultimately more production at…
Negative impacts from President Donald Trump’s intensifying global trade war could include stagflation and an even more drastic drawdown in the stock market, according to Torsten Slok, Apollo Global Management’s chief economist. The widely-followed economist sees a dire situation emerging in the tariff chaos, leading him to conjure up a host of downside risks to the economy and markets. “When we write down a list of bullet points of thinking about what are the upside risks to the economy and what are the downside risks to the economy, the list only consists of downside risks at the moment,” Slok said…
Trump claims China has been “hit much harder” in tariff warU.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 2, 2025.Leah Millis | ReutersPresident Donald Trump on Saturday claimed that China has been “hit much harder than the USA, not even close,” in the escalating trade war.”They, and many other nations, have treated us unsustainably badly,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “We have been the dumb and helpless ‘whipping post,’ but not any longer.”He touted his sweeping new tariffs, saying, “We are bringing back jobs and businesses…
Elon Musk has been promising investors for about a decade that Tesla’s cars are on the verge of turning into robotaxis, capable of driving themselves cross-country, after one big software update.That hasn’t happened yet.What Tesla offers is a sophisticated, but only partially automated, driving system that’s marketed in the U.S. as its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) option, though many Tesla fans refer to it as FSD. In China, Tesla recently changed the system’s name to “intelligent assisted driving.”Full Self-Driving, as it was previously called, relies on cameras and software to enable features like automatic navigation on highways and city streets, or…
“Always I have to be careful for the respect for the players that have played incredible roles, but there’s no doubt he’s one of the greatest for sure,” said Pep Guardiola of Kevin De Bruyne’s impending exit from Manchester City.De Bruyne’s impact at City since joining from Wolfsburg in 2015 has been huge, with the Belgian scoring 106 goals in 413 appearances, contributing to 187 Premier League goals (scoring or assisting), equalling the assist record for a single season and winning 19 trophies.While Guardiola was careful about discussing where he stands in the greatest player debate, the City coach praised…
Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost 2,000 years ago, experts announced this week.The grave was discovered in October by a construction company doing renovations for the field in Vienna’s Simmering district, a team of archaeologists and historians at the Vienna Museum said in announcing its findings. The extraordinary discovery was tied to what they called a “catastrophic” military event, possibly one where Roman troops were badly defeated and fled the site quickly.Radiocarbon dating traced the bones…
Yeti tumblers are displayed at an REI store on May 09, 2024 in Berkeley, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesCompany: Yeti Holdings Inc (YETI)Business: Yeti is a designer, retailer, and distributor of outdoor products. The company’s product portfolio consists of three categories: Coolers & Equipment, Drinkware and Other.Stock Market Value: ~$2.5B ($30.15 per share)Stock Chart IconStock chart iconYeti Holdings in the past 12 monthsActivist: Engaged Capital LLCOwnership: 1.87%Average Cost: n/aActivist Commentary: Engaged Capital was founded by Glenn W. Welling, a former principal and managing director at Relational Investors. Engaged is an experienced and successful small cap investor and makes investments with…
Financial markets that spent two years anticipating a recession that never came took two days to price in surging odds of a recession that might come by invitation. With one of the nastiest two-day selloffs in history following President Donald Trump’s launch of punitive tariffs on most trading partners, the stock market is in one of those precarious spots: Both tightly coiled for a near-term bounce soon, but not quite priced for the full fundamental implications of this policy as now contemplated. Bespoke Investment Group gave voice to this uncomfortable moment, in which markets that are built to produce the…
The Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, June 9, 2023.Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSilicon Valley executives and financiers publicly opened their wallets in support of President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential run. The early returns in 2025 aren’t great, to say the least.Following Trump’s sweeping tariff plan announced Wednesday, the Nasdaq suffered steep consecutive daily drops to finish 10% lower for the week, the index’s worst performance since the beginning of the Covid pandemic in 2020.The tech industry’s leading CEO’s rushed to contribute to Trump’s inauguration in January and paraded to Washington, D.C., for the event. Since then, it’s been…
