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BlackRock's $22.8B port deal aids U.S. influence in Panama. (Image: Reuters)

BlackRock becomes a power player in global shipping—with help from Trump

6 min read . 11 Mar 2025

BlackRock has also halted ESG fund launches and reduced support for climate-related shareholder resolutions. (Image: Bloomberg)

BlackRock’s ‘woke’ era is over

4 min read . 02 Mar 2025

Trump Media has provided few details so far on the investment strategies of its funds or what it will charge investors in fees to manage them. (Photo: AFP)

Trump wants to manage your investment portfolio

3 min read . 10 Feb 2025

Total assets in U.S.-based ETFs reached a record $10.6 trillion at the end of November. (Image: Pixabay)

A record-shattering $1 trillion poured into ETFs this year

3 min read . 30 Dec 2024

MicroStrategy has turned into a bitcoin buying machine. Photo: Liam Kennedy/Bloomberg News

Bitcoin euphoria threatens to break these ETFs

4 min read . 02 Dec 2024

Stocks already look expensive by many metrics. Photo: Getty Images via AFP

The Trump stock euphoria starts to fade

4 min read . 21 Nov 2024

The Blackrock headquarters in New York, US. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Why $11 trillion in assets isn’t enough for BlackRock’s Larry Fink

3 min read . 04 Nov 2024

Big Tech customers are investing in AI systems that need Nvidia’s graphics processing units. Photo: Annabelle Chih/Bloomberg News

Nvidia to replace Intel in Dow Jones Industrial Average

3 min read . 03 Nov 2024

Valuations of the largest U.S. companies including Nvidia have soared this year. Photo: Joel Saget/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

How Nvidia’s monster rally broke your tech ETF

3 min read . 30 Sep 2024

Microsoft and other big tech players have been investing billions in their own data centers. (File Photo: Reuters)

BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners, Microsoft, MGX launch AI partnership

2 min read . 18 Sep 2024

BlackRock and Partners Group see an opportunity in bringing private markets to individuals in a simplified way. (Getty Images via AFP)

Private markets seem out of reach for individual investors. Enter BlackRock.

2 min read . 12 Sep 2024

While the market has calmed in recent days and the Dow industrials remain within 5% of their record high, traders caution that there is reason to brace for more upheaval. (Image: Pixabay)

Investors borrowed like crazy during the rally. Now they’re paying the price.

5 min read . 12 Aug 2024

BlackRock executive Rick Rieder describes the current period as ‘the golden age of fixed income.’ Photo: Alfonso Duran for The Wall Street Journal

Investors embrace bond funds before rates start to fall

4 min read . 29 Jul 2024

Wall Street stocks were higher on Wednesday as bonds yields fell after a string of weaker-than-estimated economic reports reinforced the case for the Federal Reserve to start cutting rates this year. ( (AP Photo)

Wall Street bids adieu to its biggest bear

3 min read . 05 Jul 2024

History shows that periods of extreme market calm rarely last. The VIX traded in line with current levels for most of 2005 to 2007, before surging above 80 during the 2008 financial crisis. (Image: Pixabay)

Investors fear long stretch of calm in markets can’t last

4 min read . 16 Jun 2024

Assets in U.S. thematic funds peaked at nearly $200 billion in 2021 and have since dropped to $120 billion, according to Morningstar Direct. Photo: Getty Images via AFP

Meme stocks are back, but fund investors moved on

3 min read . 10 Jun 2024

Flows to US stock and bond funds this year are the strongest since 2021 when interest rates were near zero. (Image: Pixabay)

Bullish investors are piling into stock and bond funds

3 min read . 28 May 2024

Vanguard on Tuesday named Ramji, 53 years old, its next chief executive. He will succeed Tim Buckley, who is retiring after six years. Ramji will run the $9 trillion asset manager, a behemoth responsible for the retirement assets of tens of millions of Americans.

Meet Ramji, who is going to oversee retirement assets of millions of Americans

4 min read . 19 May 2024

Thrill-seeking investors are turning to single-stock exchange-traded funds, a relatively new product that aims to amplify the return of one stock using borrowed money or derivative contracts.

Want more Nvidia? Investors try funds that double its return—and risk

3 min read . 08 May 2024

Cathie Wood’s funds are concentrated in a handful of stocks. (Wall Street Journal)

Cathie Wood’s popular ARK funds are sinking fast

5 min read . 23 Apr 2024