The usual relationship between stocks and bonds—bonds go up when stocks go down—broke down this week amid tariff uncertainty, ...

A red hot economy is good for stocks but can spark inflation, which is bad for bonds. When the economy slows, stocks lose momentum but bonds usually do better. However, when both markets sink at the ...

Japan is too small. China is too totalitarian. That leaves Europe, with its cheap stocks and deep bond markets, as the ...

That’s because historically, U.S. Treasury bonds have been considered the marketplace’s safest investments. For decades, the U.S. government has been big, stable and reliable. In a worst-case scenario ...

U.S. markets had been on a two-year tear coming into 2025, though many believed that stock prices had become overinflated. Trump's trade war pushed that sentiment into hyperdrive. The S&P 500 has ...

United States government bonds are a unique type of financial asset: so free of risk and sought-after that they have long constituted the linchpin of many parts of the world’s financial system.

Bond prices typically move in the opposite direction of stock prices, but prices for both have fallen in tandem. That raises more significant concerns, namely a loss of faith in the U.S. as a safe ...