Investors looking for income in 2025 should still find attractive yields in corporate bonds. Investment-grade corporates saw their credit spreads tighten this year, making them expensive. However, many on Wall Street believe they remain a good place to put money to work. “We believe the combination of a return of yield relative to the last cycle, sound corporate fundamentals, and a Fed committed to extending the U.S. economy’s expansion, could enable investors to earn attractive income across fixed income spread sectors like corporate and securitized credit,” Goldman Sachs Asset Management said in its 2025 outlook. “Investment grade bonds stand out…
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The Amazon warehouse strikes are the latest supply chain headwind facing companies this holiday season, and labor battles — which have been a prominent feature of trade disruptions this year — will contribute to “another year of disruption” for global shipping in 2025. The worker actions at Amazon organized by Teamsters union members come just weeks ahead of another possible strike by dock workers at 36 ports up and down the U.S. East and Gulf Coast.”The year-over-year 280% increase in strike activity seen in 2023 didn’t slow down last year and we didn’t expect it to,” said Mike Short, president of…
David Yost has been coaching quarterbacks at college football’s highest level since 1996.His method of evaluating the sport’s most important position has not changed much over the years.The former offensive coordinator at FIU, Texas Tech, Utah State and Missouri has a checklist he uses to identify players he would like to coach.Does the height and weight match what is listed? Does his athleticism match my team’s needs? Can I live with the way the ball gets released from his hand? Does he complete deep passes? What’s changed over time for Yost is the importance he’s put on accuracy and the ability…
Sdi Productions | E+ | Getty ImagesThe U.S. job market has undergone a dramatic transformation in recent years, from one characterized by record levels of employee turnover to one in which there is little churn.In short, the “great resignation” of 2021 and 2022 has morphed into what some labor economists call the “great stay,” a job market with low levels of hiring, quits and layoffs.”The turbulence of the pandemic-era labor market is increasingly in the rearview mirror,” said Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter.How the job market has changedEmployers clamored to hire as the U.S. economy reopened from its Covid-fueled…
Anyone who’s been on a diet can likely relate: Those first lost pounds are met with a sense of euphoria. The voice inside one’s head screams: “I’ve got this!” But then, it inevitably becomes a slog. The initial novelty wears off, and the real work begins. Investors may see a parallel to the initial elation around Novo Nordisk ‘s Wegovy and Eli Lilly ‘s Zepbound. The drugs, which mimic incretin hormones such as GLP-1 and GIP to control blood sugar, suppress appetite and aid weight loss, offering patients the promise of results that approach the levels seen by bariatric surgery.…
The health-care sector is looking cheap heading into 2024, but uncertainty looms in the new year as the Trump administration takes the reins. We’ll describe an options play to capitalize on the price action as 2025 kicks off. Over the past 10 to 20 years, the health-care sector in the United States has grown significantly relative to the broader economy, as measured by its share of gross domestic product. Health-care spending accounted for approximately 15.7% of U.S. GDP in 2003. Over the next 10 years, that share grew by roughly 1.7% to 17.4% of GDP in 2013. Today, it is…
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Mike LaFleur laughed coming off the field. He shook hands and hugged Jets employees he used to know, and dapped up media members who used to question his decisions and wonder whether he was the right man to be the Jets’ offensive coordinator. Now in the same position for the Los Angeles Rams, LaFleur got the last laugh on Sunday, his Rams leaving with a 19-9 victory over a hapless Jets team that already feels checked out on the 2024 season.Nearly two year ago, LaFleur’s fate as the Jets’ play-caller was in the balance. In exit…
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The power sector’s tremendous rally on demand for electricity from artificial intelligence may just be getting started, with three stocks in particular poised for more upside next year, according to analysts. Constellation Energy , Vistra Corp. and Talen Energy soared in 2024 as investors realized that the independent power producers had nuclear and gas assets that will be highly sought after by the tech companies building out data centers to power AI. Vistra has more than tripled in value to become the second best performing stock in the S & P 500 this year, outpacing chip powerhouse Nvidia and trailing…
Ryanjlane | E+ | Getty ImagesThe IRS plans to issue automatic “special payments” of up to $1,400 to 1 million taxpayers starting later this month, the agency announced on Friday.The payments will go to individuals who did not claim the 2021 Recovery Rebate Credit on their tax returns for that year and who are eligible for the money.The Recovery Rebate Credit is a refundable tax credit provided to individuals who did not receive one or more economic impact payments — more popularly known as stimulus checks — that were sent by the federal government in the wake of the Covid-19…
