Over the last several weeks, nearly every bank and researcher on Wall Street has published their outlook for how the Federal Reserve will adjust interest rates in 2025. Every firm operates with the same data,

Wall Street started higher ahead of Trump's inauguration on Monday. Investors expect a flurry of executive orders, including on crypto and TikTok.

In the euphoric markets of 2024, the biggest sin was skepticism. A white-hot runup in risky assets made life miserable for anyone buying into the frenzy of fresh products that Wall Street was hawking to hedge and diversify.

Goldman estimates that companies could spend some $1.07 trillion on buying back their own stock this year. On the other side of the equation, global investors have poured about $143 billion into money market funds in the week ending Jan 10, the largest since March 25, 2020, Goldman said.

What Hartford Funds and Ned Davis Research found was that income stocks more than doubled the average annual return of non-payers -- 9.17% versus 4.27% -- and did so while being less volatile than the benchmark S&P 500. However, high-quality dividend stocks don't grow on trees and require some effort by investors to uncover.

Emboldened by a friendlier incoming Trump administration and their success last year in weakening draft capital hikes, big U.S. banks plan to push to overhaul other U.S. capital rules, according to industry executives.

Hindenburg Research founder Nate Anderson, a foe of Carl Icahn and the Adani family, cites the stress of his job as he shuts down the firm.

The Wall Street Pepe presale crossed the $50 million mark on Friday, and now there are only 30 days left to grab a piece of the next Pepe.

“People really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it, but if they do, they should give it up, because we need it for national security,” Trump said. If Danish officials don’t cooperate with his bid to take over Greenland, he added, “then I would tariff Denmark at a very high level.”

According to familiar sources, a preliminary level of talks were initiated when External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar visited Washington DC around Christmas last month.

The soon-to-be 47th president, who will be sworn in on Monday, voiced interest in traveling to China within his first 100 days in office.