Barron's

Investors have much to be thankful for, with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average near record highs. But is this year’s rally a cause for concern?

President-elect Donald Trump is dusting off an old playbook with his plans to raise tariffs on imports, even from the U.S.’s closest trading partners. One reason it’s so controversial is because similar moves didn’t do well in the past. But what does history show us?

By now we’re well into second- and third-order implications of the Trump administration on markets and investing. Getting too granular here is a fool’s errand, as Oaktree sage Howard Marks recently reminded us. Still, noodling on Trump Part Deux, at least directionally, is prudent.

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President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of a radically untraditional director of the National Institutes of Health could bring a payday for companies that sell tools to life-sciences researchers.

The holiday shopping season is upon us. There’s an added wrinkle this year with President-elect Donald Trump threatening to raise tariffs on imports as soon as his first day in office on Jan. 20. They could affect the price of consumer electronics in a significant manner, given that many of the products are primarily manufactured abroad.

American agricultural abundance has fed the world for decades, but in the past few years, that has faltered. Agricultural economist Dan Basse fears that the decline of globalization and an economic and political rift between the U.S. and China puts U.S. farmers on the losing end of these changes.

Treasury bonds look appealing, especially because the bond market is signaling that yields won’t move much higher.

If only picking dividend stocks were as simple as choosing the ones with the largest payouts. Unfortunately, it’s far more complicated than that, especially because the stocks with the highest yields are often the most troubled.

It’s looking like a jolly holiday season for America’s retailers, based on company guidance and economic forecasts. That’s because many U.S. consumers are in good financial health on the eve of the greatest shopping marathon of the year.