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Sam Goldfarb

ARTICLES BY SAM GOLDFARB

The Stargate AI data center under construction in Abilene, Texas. Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg News

Demand for bonds is insatiable. Even risky borrowers are reaping the benefits.

4 min read . 12 Feb 2026

The price of loans issued by the likes of Qlik, a maker of business intelligence software, have sunk recently.

The software rout is spreading pain to the debt markets

4 min read . 06 Feb 2026

Software heavyweights Salesforce, Adobe and ServiceNow are all down at least 30% since the start of last year. (File Photo: Bloomberg)

Wall Street has fallen out of love with software stocks

4 min read . 25 Jan 2026

The Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, (Bloomberg)

The stock-market rally isn’t just about tech anymore

4 min read . 09 Jan 2026

The exterior of the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board building is seen in Washington, D.C., U.S. (File Photo: Reuters)

How investors are preparing for a new Fed

5 min read . 29 Dec 2025

Silver futures have climbed 145% this year to around $71 a troy ounce, blowing through a 45-year record in October. (File Photo: Bloomberg)

Silver’s runaway rally sweeps up amateur investors

4 min read . 26 Dec 2025

An employee counts US banknotes at a currency exchange house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, (Bloomberg)

Hope for more rate cuts is tempting buyers back to bonds

4 min read . 12 Dec 2025

An S&P 500 chart on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, (Bloomberg)

Five reasons investors are feeling good about stocks again

4 min read . 08 Dec 2025

Billions of dollars are being poured into creating data centers for the AI build-out.

Flood of AI bonds adds to pressure on markets

4 min read . 04 Dec 2025

Bonds had regained ground after the Fed’s inflation-fighting campaign fueled a historically bad 2022. (REUTERS)

Bonds are heading for the best year since 2020

4 min read . 17 Nov 2025

For more than a month, investors have lived without key government reports that normally shape their basic understanding of the economy. (Bloomberg)

Investors dump tech shares as shutdown relief evaporates

3 min read . 14 Nov 2025

One sign of weakness was the quick collapse of Tricolor Holdings, which supplied auto loans to low-income buyers who lacked a credit history. (Bloomberg)

The credit market is humming—and that has Wall Street on edge

5 min read . 29 Sept 2025

Stephen Miran is chair of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers. (Photo: ERIC Lee for WSJ)

How Trump’s provocative economist crashed the Federal Reserve

8 min read . 15 Sept 2025

Economists, investors and politicians have often warned that the US’s growing debt burden would punish future generations.

Wall Street worries as US debt balloons post-tax cuts

10 min read . 04 Jul 2025

US fiscal worries, Moody's downgrade, and potential deficit-boosting bill spook bond market despite stock rebound, (Image: Reuters)

America’s fiscal situation threatens the good mood on Wall Street

3 min read . 20 May 2025

Despite rebounding from tariff impacts, stocks look pricey by P/E and yield measures, hinting at potentially lower future returns. (Image: Pixabay)

Just how expensive are stocks after all the ups and downs? We check the math.

3 min read . 18 May 2025

Fed Chair Jerome Powell last week repeatedly said the central bank wasn’t in a rush to lower rates. Photo: Reuters

Tariff shock reverberates in the bond market

3 min read . 11 May 2025

Traders on the New York Stock Exchange floor on Thursday. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) (AFP)

How one of the wildest weeks in market history unfolded

4 min read . 12 Apr 2025

Alexandra Citrin-Safadi/WSJ; iStock

Trump’s new world order tests the dollar

5 min read . 16 Mar 2025

(Tullett Prebon)

Why bond yields are surging around the world

3 min read . 13 Jan 2025