Krystal Hur
Markets Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
Reporter covering markets at The Wall Street Journal. Email: [email protected] and Signal: krystalhur.02. Go Blue. She/her.
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1 week ago |
fnlondon.com | Krystal Hur
Rob Arnott’s Firm Says the Time Is Finally Right for ‘Smart Beta’Research Affiliates, which once criticized the popular investing strategies, now sees growing value in them Published June 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM ET Rob Arnott used to argue that the popularity of “smart beta” investing strategies often made the stocks they favored too expensive to actually buy. Now, his firm says the time is right.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Krystal Hur
Individual traders are feeling less gloomy, with stocks bouncing back from the tariff-driven selloff in April. Bearishness, or the expectation that stock prices will fall over the next six months, fell to 33.6%. That is the lowest level since January, according to the latest weekly survey by the American Association of Individual Investors.
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3 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Krystal Hur
Profits for S&P 500 companies in the second-quarter are expected to climb by that amount from the year before, according to FactSet. That would mark the lowest earnings growth for the benchmark index since the fourth quarter of 2023. The first-quarter earnings season has been solid: Companies have reported a roughly 13% jump in profits.
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3 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Krystal Hur
The Russell 2000 index, which tracks small-cap stocks, gained 1.6% Friday morning, outperforming major stock indexes. Smaller companies, which perform much of their business domestically, are often perceived as bellwethers for the U.S. economy's condition. Despite Friday's gains, the Russell is still down about 4% on the year, while the Dow industrials, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite are up modestly.
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3 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Krystal Hur
Investors are pumping the brakes on betting against Tesla, after a mad dash for such wagers Thursday during Elon Musk's spat with President Trump. An options measure called "skew" for Tesla options tumbled Friday, show Cboe Global Markets data. A lower skew can indicate that prices for bullish calls are pricier than bearish puts. Call options confer the right to buy a stock at a set price, while puts offer the right to sell.
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