Chinese stocks did badly in 2023. And in 2022. And in 2021. Will this year finally be the year for a sustained rebound? With China’s property sector woes unresolved, betting on the market as a whole still looks risky—even though shares, particularly in Hong Kong, are trading at phenomenally cheap valuations. But that doesn’t mean … Read more
Updated Dec. 30, 2023 12:10 am ET A resilient U.S. economy and cooling inflation fueled an intense year-end bond rally. Now, some suspect investors are too sanguine about the months ahead. The rally marked the latest in a series of swings that sent the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury, which falls when bond prices … Read more
How to Work—and Love It—Into Your 80s and Beyond · Gladys McGarey, 103, maintains a full schedule, echoing the anti-burnout habits of Munger, O'Connor … Source link
The average American spends 6 hours, 58 minutes a day on the internet. That adds up to 536.55 billion hours a year for all of us. We could save billions of hours by addressing inefficiencies introduced mostly by lawyers and politicians: • Accepting and rejecting cookies. Most people don’t even know what cookies are when … Read more
With stocks starting to price in interest-rate cuts next year, the biotech sector has emerged as a winner for investors seeking riskier bets with more distant payoffs. But investing in this industry is tricky because biotech is a sector of haves and have-nots. While every industry has its winners and losers, the gap in biotech … Read more
Genius bar is telling: No matter how connected we get to our phones, most people accept that they'll soon seem obsolete. The average phone in America … Source link
As with losses on stocks, investors can use them to reduce taxes on their investment gains if the bonds or bond funds are held in taxable accounts … Source link
BACK IN THE 1990s, when fashion magazines were the size of phone books, the covers routinely featured four impossibly beautiful women who grew so famous, people around the world referred to them by their first names: Cindy, Naomi, Christy and Linda. With their larger-than-life fame (and big hair to match) this pioneering foursome transformed the … Read more
For the past three months I’ve been pressing my colleagues to significantly strengthen the weapons systems provided to Taiwan so it can prevail in a conflict in the Taiwan Strait (“How Joe Biden Can Deter China,” Review & Outlook, Nov. 18). The national security supplemental request that the White House sent to Congress in October … Read more
GIFTS AREN’T ALL you should be wrapping this season. If you’re remotely fashion-minded, now’s the time to swaddle yourself dramatically in oversize shawls and wraps. Stow away those wispy pashminas and grab one of the voluminous alternatives that billowed down fall runways, such as Michael Kors’s scarves, whose fringed ends practically tickled the ground. Consider … Read more