How to use the tax-loss selling occurring now to pick up quality stocks on the cheap

It’s that time of year again: the annual tax-loss harvest. It’s happening across the brokerage firms right now, and it’s happening in size. Advisors are locking in losses to offset the big realized gains from earlier in the year, especially back in April when clients trimmed their winners and booked profits. We know from trading […]
How to tackle private credit’s ‘cockroaches’ as contagion fears build

Key Points J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon warned last week of “cockroaches” lurking in private markets. Private markets have come into sharper focus following the recent high-profile collapses of First Brands and Tricolor in the U.S. As central banks turn their attention to the sector, investors say closer analysis and active portfolio management are more […]
AI bull marks the revenge of the Dotcom ‘boxmakers’ like Cisco, Dell. How to trade the stocks from here

(This is The Best Stocks in the Market , brought to you by Josh Brown and Sean Russo of Ritholtz Wealth Management.) Josh — I remember being a retail stockbroker in 1999, pitching shares of Mellon Bank to my retail brokerage customers. After the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act under President Bill Clinton, a wave […]
These international ETFs are beating the S&P 500. How to add exposure

As markets grapple with President Donald Trump’s evolving tariff policy, returns outside of the U.S. are looking especially attractive. Several region-specific exchange-traded funds are seeing a strong 2025, far outperforming the S & P 500 which is only marginally positive this year. Consider that the iShares China Large-Cap ETF (FXI) and the iShares Europe ETF […]
A key U.S. inflation report looms over Wall Street. How to trade it

The October personal consumption expenditures price index report has many investors wondering how it may impact the postelection market rally. The S & P equal weight index has outperformed the market cap-weighted S & P 500 since Nov. 5. On top of that, more than 100 S & P companies hit new highs on Monday. […]