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With 2025 on the horizon, investors are sharpening their focus on the year ahead, selecting portfolio additions that aim to bring solid returns. “There is reason to be bullish,” says Jordan Jackson, a JPMorgan strategist covering the markets. He highlights positive trends in inflation and interest rates, noting that consumer spending is likely to respond in kind. “I think over the course of next year, we should continue to see consumers start to feel a little bit more confident about their walle

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Walmart is set to report earnings before the market opens Tuesday for the third quarter of fiscal 2025, with analysts expecting improving sales as Walmart continues to expand its customer base.

More than 100 of the world's wealthiest business owners gathered in Hong Kong this weekend, as the city stepped up its appeal to be the Asia-Pacific region's wealth management and family office hub. Business owners from the US, Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and mainland China joined their Hong Kong counterparts at the principals-only 2024 Family Business Summit, organised by South China Morning Post and Blue Pool Capital with JPMorgan as the presenting partner. "Family businesses form

Promises made by Donald Trump on the campaign trail could lead to major changes for the crypto industry in 2025.

More than half of the stock market's post-Trump-election rally has been erased.

President-elect Donald Trump promised repeatedly during his campaign to expand oil drilling in the U.S., which is good news for political leaders in Alaska, where oil is the economic lifeblood and many felt the Biden administration has obstructed efforts to boost the state's diminished production. A debate over drilling on federal lands on Alaska's petroleum-rich North Slope will likely be revived in the coming months, particularly in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which environmentalists have long sought to protect as one of the country's last wild places.

Vaccine stocks have struggled since RFK Jr.'s appointment to health secretary, with Moderna and Pfizer seeing the deepest losses.

Though Bank of America expects continued stock market upside, three risks could upend the rally.

Large-cap stocks just saw their biggest-ever week of purchases, according to Bank of America data.