Here's what investors can expect from the stock market and Wall Street's premier growth trends in the new year.

Historically, pricey markets have generated weaker 10-year average annual returns. It means investors must be more mindful of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. In today's interconnected global economy, shifts in trade policy can send ripples through financial markets with surprising speed.

Big stock gains have always been followed by big losses. Here are tips on how to prepare. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets, finance and the economy. The higher ...

Watching your 401(k) plan savings recede as stocks slide can be gut-wrenching, sparking anxiety about whether you'll ever be able to retire — a particularly loaded issue for Gen Xers, given the oldest ...

Experts say ensuring you have a diverse portfolio of investments is key to preparing for any stock market crash ...

This past year has been yet another in which high-momentum stocks lagged behind the market. Momentum stocks are those with the best trailing-year returns. Though over the last century a portfolio of ...

This 'divide and conquer' investing strategy can lead you to stock-market winners Every time a company announces a stock split, fastidious analysts point out that splits make absolutely no difference ...

When will the next bear market happen—and when it does, how long will it take to recover? Stocks were approaching bear-market territory as recently as Monday, April 7, and forecasters across Wall ...

Robin Hartill is a Florida-based Certified Financial Planner and a longtime financial editor and writer. Her work regularly appears on The Motley Fool, Yahoo! Finance and Nerdwallet. Previously, she ...

Stock-market investors might want to keep an eye on diverging paths for what are arguably the world’s two most closely followed commodities. Gold is the “most followed commodity in the world” and some ...