Citigroup Partners With Swiss Bourse in Private Markets Push

May 6, 2025 | Markets, Private Markets

Citigroup Inc. is partnering with Switzerland’s stock exchange SIX Group AG as part of a push by the Wall Street lender to make it easier for investors to settle and store their private markets holdings. The New York-based bank will use a platform operated by SDX, a...

Systematic Funds to Buy Stocks No Matter Which Way Market Swings

May 5, 2025 | Markets

After a historic bout of tariff-driven volatility spurred trend-following systematic funds to sell, commodity trading advisers are once again surfacing as buyers of US stocks. Commodity trading advisers or CTAs, which typically buy stocks as index prices rise and sell...

Wall Street’s Biggest Bull Isn’t Budging on S&P 7,000 This Year

May 5, 2025 | Markets

Wall Street stock market strategists have largely abandoned the lofty expectations they took into 2025, but one bull isn’t budging: Wells Fargo Securities LLC’s Christopher Harvey. He projects that the S&P 500 Index will end the year at 7,007, the same number he...

Private Markets Hog the Spotlight as Asset Managers Gather in DC

May 2, 2025 | Markets, Private Markets, Recommended

The half-lit ballroom at the JW Marriott in Washington buzzed with the restrained energy typical of a traditional asset-management conference — dark suits, legacy names and philosophies on portfolio allocation. Sipping their coffees Thursday at the buffet breakfast...

Florida Home Prices Post Biggest Decline in at Least 13 Years

May 2, 2025 | Markets

Florida’s housing boom has now shifted into reverse, with prices sliding by the most in at least 13 years. The median price for all types of homes fell 1.7% in March from a year earlier, according to Redfin Corp. data going back to 2012. The post-pandemic influx of...