Alphabet Shares Take $138 Billion Blow as Search Warnings Blare

May 9, 2025 | Markets

For more than a year, Alphabet Inc. shareholders have fretted over long-term risks posed by artificial intelligence to the company’s money-printing search business. This week the threat became much more immediate. Court testimony from an Apple Inc. executive on...

Blackstone, Vanguard, Wellington to Launch Private Markets Fund

May 7, 2025 | Markets, Private Credit, Private Markets, Recommended

Blackstone Inc., Vanguard Group and Wellington Management Co are launching a fund that will invest in public equities, bonds and private markets, as part of their effort to expand private-market offerings to retail clients. The firms have laid out plans for an...

Tesla Sales Plummet Across Europe Even as Model Y Ramps Up

May 6, 2025 | Markets

Tesla Inc. sales kept sliding across Europe’s biggest electric-car markets in April, despite the company rolling out an updated version of its most popular vehicle. The company registered only 512 new vehicles last month in the UK, the Society of Motor Manufacturers...

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...