It’s not just Morgan Stanley’s IPO bankers that are benefiting from the frenzy of companies going public in recent weeks. The bank hauled in $148 billion of net new assets in its wealth-management business in the second quarter, over half of which were tied to IPOs,...

Only during major crises have tech stocks been this volatile. For 20 of the past 26 trading days, the Nasdaq 100 Index — a key industry benchmark — has seen a daily gain or loss of roughly 1% or more as it lurched sideways, with the 1.1% gain on Tuesday the latest...

South Korea’s AI-fueled stock boom is turning into a cautionary tale of what happens when leverage becomes a more powerful market force than the fundamentals. SK Hynix Inc.’s record 15% plunge Monday compelled managers of leveraged products tied to the country’s...

Lincoln National Corp. is in advanced talks with Talcott Financial Group for a reinsurance deal that would shift billions of dollars of life insurance reserves off its balance sheet, according to people familiar with the deliberations. The deal is expected to focus on...

The dollar’s recent gains are at risk if the selloff in artificial intelligence stocks deepens, according to Apollo Global Management Inc.’s Torsten Slok. International investors embracing the AI theme have spurred record net foreign inflows into US equities on a...

President Donald Trump shocked Wall Street when he called to bar big investors from the US housing market. Six months later, the effort ended in a compromise that still offers the biggest landlords plenty of ways to grow. The deal, encoded in broader housing...