Jeff Sommer

Rising interest rates have wreaked havoc this year in financial markets. Yet they are an unambiguous boon in one unheralded arena: money market funds, where the higher rates almost immediately funnel more money to investors without major complications. Th... See more

The bad news for bonds isn't over. Far from it. Yet I'll stick my neck out and say that for careful people with long horizons, this is a fine time to make selective purchases of high-quality bonds. That includes Treasuries, inflation-protected, corporate ... See more

At the beginning of the year, if I'd had to guess what sector of the stock market would outperform all others, the easy answer would have been technology. Yet that's not what happened for fund investors in the three months through September. Tech stock fu... See more

O Federal Reserve dos EUA manteve os juros, mas o mercado de títulos elevou as taxas, refletindo riscos como inflação e tensões geopolíticas. Isso impacta financiamentos imobiliários e dívidas, enquanto beneficia aposentados com rendimentos fixos. O presi... See more

The US stock market has been splendid for more than three years. It has powered ahead again in 2026, putting the S&P 500 – Wall Street’s broad-based blue-chip index – in position for a rare feat: a fourth consecutive year of double-digit gains. That’s... See more