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Don’t miss these top money and investing features: These money and investing stories, popular with MarketWatch readers this past week, offer ideas about how to manage your financial portfolio and invest strategically at a time when investors have become more optimistic — even as uncertainty about the coronavirus pandemic, corporate …

There has been a yawning gap for some time between growth and value stocks, and the coronavirus pandemic has only widened the disparity. James Solloway, chief market strategist at investment manager SEI Investments, expects that to change — soon. “There are periods where leadership changes in a drastic and dramatic …

A new model for assessing stocks may include higher valuations, as the old paradigm is no longer valid, according to a research note from DataTrek Research on Tuesday. From about 1950 to 2000, according to Nicholas Colas, Co-founder of DataTrek Research, there was a fairly stable paradigm in place for …

It takes guts to be a value investor these days. But the top-performing investment newsletters have no shortage of courage. By value, I’m referring to stocks that are out of favor, trading for relatively low ratios of price-to-earnings, book value, sales, and so forth. Value’s opposite is growth: Stocks in …

European stocks fell on Friday, with investors spooked by news that China will tighten control over Hong Kong with a new security law, sparking fears of fresh unrest and an added stress on Beijing and Washington relations. The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, -0.73% fell 1.3% to 335.82 after a …

Despite the stock market’s recent rally, most U.S. stocks still have losses for the year. And smaller firms are generally doing even worse than their larger peers. Case in point: The S&P 500 index SPX, +1.66% index of the 500 biggest domestic companies is down roughly 9% since Jan. 1, …

Oil prices failed to find support on Wednesday, even after U.S. government data showed an unexpected weekly decline in domestic crude supplies, along with a fall in stocks at the Cushing, Okla. storage hub. “Any further upside [for prices] will be rather tepid from here,” said Tariq Zahir, managing member …

European stocks rose on Monday on optimism over lockdown restrictions being lifted across the globe. The German DAX DAX, +0.36% rose 0.3% and the U.K. FTSE 100 UKX, +0.76% , after a three-day break, rose 0.8%. Stocks hit hard during the crisis including Virgin Money UK VMUK, +8.45% and CINE, …

Gold futures retreated Friday, with investors shunning haven assets amid early optimism over a drug that’s anecdotally shown potential to treat COVID-19 and the release of a road map to gradually reopening the U.S. economy. “Risk sentiment has been bolstered by U.S. President Donald Trump and reports suggesting a potential …