Ben Carlson

The Covid-related bear market of 2020 was a vicious but brief affair; the S&P 500 fell 35 per cent in a month before promptly taking off. In contr(...)

This year’s stock market losses are piling up. S&P 500 stocks have lost $7.5 trillion (€7.22 trillion) in market value this year, according to Bes(...)

Ordinary investors could be forgiven for scratching their heads at the market reaction to a war few expected. Yes, stocks have been volatile, but Eur(...)

Stocks rebounded strongly last week but that doesn’t mean the danger has passed, as snapback rallies often occur in bear markets. So is this a run-of-(...)

Some talking heads have referred to the recent market downturn as a crash. It’s not. Yes, many individual stocks have been decimated. Yes, the sp(...)

Whatever about 2022, investors should be grateful for 2021, says Ritholtz Wealth Management’s Ben Carlson. There have been 17 years where the S&(...)

Most fund managers (62 per cent) expect European stocks to rise 5-10 per cent in 2022, according to a Bank of America survey. Such expectations are n(...)

Stocktake noted recently that 2021 has been an unusually easy year for investors. Since then, things have got even easier. How easy? Well, the S&(...)

Dire headlines regarding the fate of Afghanistan on Monday last week didn’t stop US indices hitting all-time highs. Stocks sank later in the week aft(...)

No one thinks US stocks are cheap. But how expensive are they? The question is unavoidable, given the S&P 500 has doubled since March 2020 and no(...)