Active Stock Picking Is Getting Harder

Markets are meant to be efficient, yet somehow they keep producing meme-stock frenzies, CEO vanity projects, and wild booms and busts. We're joined by Alex Edmans — Professor of Finance at London Business School and author of The Madness of Markets — joins us to discuss why even ...  Show more

The Financial Stability Board says frontier AI is the most immediate threat to the financial system — above sovereign debt, private credit and equity valuations. As AI learns to find and exploit vulnerabilities faster than humans can patch them, are our banks about to be hacked? ...  Show more

Of course we all know that passive investing delivers superior returns. But what if everyone is investing passively? Is there a case for active investing then? Recent research has shown that the explosion in index funds has made equities slower to respond to news. And also, it ...

Don’t let the record highs fool you - the market still has weak spots. In this episode of Stocks in Translation, Zacks Investment Management senior client portfolio manager Brian Mulberry joins host Jared Blikre and Senior Reporter Allie Canal to help identify risks in today’s ma ...  Show more

After a treacherous few months for equities, investor sentiment appears to have turned relatively ursine. But is the reality that stocks will continue to rise in the short-term at least? Neil Azous of Rareview Macro makes just that case. Plus, in the long/short segment, Grant Wil ...  Show more

Stocks sputtering into the close on Friday with major indexes unable to hold on to early gains. What the action means as we head into what could be a crucial week for the markets. Plus, four months ago Carter Worth said to sell Apple and Microsoft and Buy Alphabet and Amazon. ...