News

Announcing the Winners of Morningstar’s 2025 Awards for Investing Excellence
Today, Morningstar is naming the winners of its 2025 Awards for Investing Excellence. We’re handing out four awards: ...
How Smart People Screen for Funds
The selector tool on the Morningstar FundInvestor website allows you to run all these tests. Unfortunately, you have to enter ...
Income Opportunities Remain at the Front End of the Yield Curve
Ultrashort bond funds can help investors secure higher income amid the current market uncertainty.
Wide-Moat McCormick Is Cooking Up a Sound Recipe to Blunt Current Economic and Competitive Malaise
We believe McCormick’s balance sheet strength will enable it to weather the current volatile macro and competitive landscape relatively unscathed. McCormick ended fiscal 2024 with about $200 million ...
Sellers have gotten tired of cutting prices in these real-estate markets. So they're yanking their houses off the market.
Amid a multidecade slowdown in the housing market, home sellers in some areas are giving up. With few buyers looking to buy and a lack of demand, these owners are choosing to remove their homes from ...
Here's what the megabill means for retirees' taxes, according to a financial adviser
Financial advisers often use their software to run multiple scenarios for clients for planning purposes. The breakdowns they get back allow them to compare all the variables side by side and see which ...
Return of the Rishi: Sunak back at Goldman Sachs
Rishi Sunak returned to the backbenches in Parliament after his brief tenure as prime minister ended in the ignominy of a landslide defeat to Keir Starmer and the Labour Party in July 2024. In that ...
'We are blessed': My husband is inheriting a $1 million home. Should he put it in my name too?
My husband is inheriting a house from elderly friends, in his name only. It's worth $1 million or more. We do not live in a community-property state. We have one son who is now a young adult. We will ...
Social Security's new commissioner, rule reversals and cost cuts: Here's everything that's happening at the agency
The Social Security Administration is about to get a new commissioner, but that's only the latest of a series of changes at the agency since the inauguration of President Donald Trump.
Goldman Sachs lifts its S&P 500 forecasts. Strategists say these three investment moves are crucial.
A team led by Goldman's chief U.S. equity strategist David Kostin now expect the S&P 500 to reach 6,900 in the next 12 months, up from a prior view of 6,500. Over the next three months, they expect a ...
Dividend yields for U.S. stocks are nearing record lows, and investors don't seem to care. Here's why they should.
Investors interested in dividend investing have a few options. Value stocks such as Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (WBA), Ford Motor Co. (F) and Altria Group Inc. (MO) have some of the highest dividend ...
A $400 pineapple? Here's what's coming for grocery shoppers with gourmet tastes.
It all adds up to big business: Sales of specialty-food (aka gourmet) products are projected to total $231 billion in 2025 - that's up 5.5% over the previous year. They represent 25.2% of total ...