Market affordability continued to be a concern in 2025, with affordability shrinking for both new and used models. Automakers also shifted gears, coming to terms with the reality of electric vehicles ...

In 2025, the initial public offering (IPO) market continued to rebound from the 2022 and 2023 slump. For the second year in a row, markets saw more IPOs, more special purpose acquisition companies ...

When I last wrote about municipal bonds, they were experiencing a bit of a rough patch. In the first half of 2025, the Morningstar US Municipal Bond Index logged a slightly negative total return. It ...

Joseph Lucosky is the Managing Partner of Lucosky Brookman, a leading law firm in the world of microcap IPOs and Nasdaq/NYSE listings. On the surface, the 2025 micro-cap IPO market was more active ...

The technology and communication-services sectors were the biggest winners in 2025. AI giants Nvidia and Alphabet were the leading individual contributors. Consumer defensive and real estate stocks ...

Last year saw the stock market grow but still marked the worst first year of a presidential administration in terms of stocks since 2005, as President Trump’s drastic shifts on tariffs fueled economic ...

The stock market surged to record highs in 2025, hurtling past tariffs, a government shutdown and fears of a bubble in artificial intelligence. The S&P 500 -- the index that most people's 401(k)s ...

The S&P 500 delivered a 17.6% total return in 2025, with Technology and Communication Services leading sector performance amid AI/data center tailwinds. My value-oriented portfolio nearly matched SPY ...

The global wine market looks very different from three years ago. The period of rapid price appreciation and speculative buying has ended. What remains is a more disciplined market shaped by slower ...

Teslas, barring the Cybertruck, were some of the most popular used electric vehicles of 2025. The Hyundai Ioniq 5 jumped nine spots to become one of the most popular used EVs of last year. The used EV ...

A stellar year on Wall Street led to a bullish Hamptons housing market in 2025. Sales of Hamptons homes for $5 million or more reached an all-time high in late 2025, according to a new report by ...

The bitcoin BTC $68,009.04 market grew much calmer in 2025 as institutions embraced derivatives tied to the leading cryptocurrency to generate extra cash from their idle coin holdings. The calmness is ...