Financial Statement Analysis

“We will not be downsizing our home, but we do have rental income of about $1,500 per month.”

Investors were bracing for the Federal Reserve’s final interest-rate decision of 2025 on Wednesday, with history showing that the S&P 500 index has tended to see a modest gain on Fed days in December.

Enthusiasm for custom chips made by Broadcom has been sweeping Wall Street going into the company’s earnings report on Thursday, and some analysts are keeping an upbeat outlook for its next few years.

Nigel Coe of Wolfe Research says industrials have been a hot sector this year, but it’s a stock pickers market.

After notching 11 intraday record highs in quick succession, strategists say the precious metal could now be facing its first true test.

This is the first holiday season without the de minimis tax exemption, a nearly century-old rule that allowed low-value goods to enter the U.S. tariff-free.

Momentum trading strategies tend to amplify market moves into option expiry and UBS warns if the market has a 5% downtick, delta hedging could exaggerate that and make it much worse.

“They have already paid the mortgage. It makes no sense to require them to ‘pay’ it again.”

Rising Treasury yields could be an roadblock for small caps, but fundamentals finally have started to improve, says one money manager.