Screens for the Nasdaq Composite and Nasdaq-100 are displayed at Nasdaq, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, in New York. It’s been a record-making week on Wall Street.

Interestingly, on a very strong day for equities, the majority of e-mails that I fielded yesterday involved bonds. From sell-side sales traders, and from retail traders alike, either to ask what I thought, or to offer their own opinion, there seemed to be a theme.

After years spent languishing behind its neighbors, the Philippines is finally catching up with its fellow Asian tiger economies as it posts some of the fastest growth rates in the world. With the World Bank forecasting expansion of more than 6 percent for eight years until 2019 — unparalleled in the nation’s history — the Philippines is mimicking gains seen in Malaysia and Thailand in the 1990s as they industrialized.

Dow 20,000 – it’s the talk of Wall Street and maybe even worth a tweet from the president. But what’s it mean to professional investors? Mostly a call for caution, it turns out.

We finally hit Dow 20,000. The Dow had been unable to break the barrier in recent weeks as uncertainty mounted and investors took profits and Google approaching and/or reaching new highs.

Dividend stocks have been a lifesaver for investors who need income from their investment portfolios, especially in light of rock-bottom interest rates on bonds and other fixed-income assets. In particular, Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF offers a low-cost way to get diversified exposure to more than 400 stocks, all of which have above-average dividend yields.

A series of positive earnings on Wednesday morning set the Dow Jones Industrial Average up to close in on its 20,000 milestone. A series of positive earnings on Wednesday morning set the Dow Jones Industrial Average up to close in on its 20,000 milestone.

At this time last year, investors were looking into the abyss while stocks tumbled, oil crashed and bonds rallied, as the flight to safety trade was in full effect. This year, we have literally the opposite of all those situations.

European stocks are called higher Wednesday as the U.S. corporate earnings season continues to impress and the U.S. dollar rebounded modestly in overnight Asia trading. European stocks are called higher Wednesday as the U.S. corporate earnings season continues to impress and the U.S. dollar rebounded modestly in overnight Asia trading.

Tuesday was a strong day for the stock market, and the Dow Jones Industrials climbed more than 100 points to come once again within spitting distance of the 20,000 mark. Other major market benchmarks climbed even more sharply on a percentage basis as investors generally celebrated encouraging results from companies announcing earnings and on the macroeconomic front.

U.S. stocks finished higher Tuesday with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq setting record highs after a fresh round of corporate earnings overcame uncertainty ahead of President Donald Trump’s pro-business agenda. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 112.86 points, or 0.6%, to finish at 19,912.71, with shares of DuPont and International Business Machines Corp. leading gainers.

The S&P 500 and the Dow were set for their best day in three weeks on Tuesday, powered by technology and bank stocks. “We are now in a phase where the policies need to come to fruition to justify the move we have seen in the post-election period,” said Bill Northey, chief investment officer at Private Client Group of U.S. Bank.

Good news for bond bulls: as far as some of the world’s biggest investors are concerned, negative yields will be a feature of Europe for years to come. Vanguard Group says the euro zone’s sluggish economy, where policy makers are barely halfway to reaching their inflation target, means monetary easing will persist, and sub-zero bond yields with it.

European stocks are expected to open firmer Tuesday as investors head into a busy corporate earnings season amid questions over the stability of economic policies from President Donald Trump. European stocks are expected to open firmer Tuesday as investors head into a busy corporate earnings season amid questions over the stability of economic policies from President Donald Trump.

With prices rising as much as 21% last August, gold looked like it was bouncing back last year from the slide that it has endured since 2013. Donald Trump’s election put an end to that, though — from the election to the end of December, the price of gold fell nearly 11%.

Investors liked their low trading costs and ability to deliver benchmark returns by tracking an index, a commodity, bonds, or a basket of assets. Smart beta ETFs are carefully constructed indexes that rank stocks by traits other than their market value, the standard methodology employed by traditional benchmarks, such as the Standard & Poor’s 500.

Both the benchmark Hang Seng index and the Hong Kong China Enterprises Index were up 0.1 percent at the close, to 22,898.52 points and 9,726.82 points respectively. The market was under profit-taking pressure after recently rising above 23,000 points and would likely end the week around 22,800 points, predicted Steve Leung, director at UOB Kay Hian Holdings.

European stock are expected to open lower Monday amid a major pullback in the U.S. dollar sparked by increasing concerns over the protectionist signals from President Donald Trump. European stock are expected to open lower Monday amid a major pullback in the U.S. dollar sparked by increasing concerns over the protectionist signals from President Donald Trump.