It's fair to say that much of Wall Street didn't get enough sleep on election night after being caught off guard by the speed at which results began coming in.

Amid a recent spate of data showing the economy humming along smoothly, one sector has consistently stayed out of whack and it’s a big one: housing. At the heart of the problem is the fact that high prices and high mortgage rates have pushed the cost of buying a house...

Here’s a selection of recent, and upcoming, votes around the world and how they are impacting markets.

Persistent deflationary pressures have also sparked a discussion about whether the world’s second-biggest economy is headed for a Japan-style malaise of stagnation after 30 years of unprecedented growth.

Interest rates have peaked and activity in several sectors is picking up, but some fear bad news is still to emerge.

One of the primary goals of investing money is to eventually take out more than you put in—buy low and sell high. But has that changed? The answer may astonish you.

In today’s digital and services-dominated economy, one might be forgiven for buying into the narrative that oil no longer has any real bearing on inflation. That would be a mistake.

Over the past three years inflation has gone from “transitory” to “persistent” to, well, boring. Across the developed world annual price increases are returning towards the subdued 2% level targeted by many central banks. Don’t break out the champagne yet,...

Of the last 10 Fed policy-easing cycles—going back to 1974—the S&P 500 has returned 11% on average in the 12 months following the first rate cut. That’s slightly below the index’s average return of 12% a year since the start of the 1970s. However, half of those 10...

Short or long term? Higher or lower risk? How best to make your money work for you will depend on your circumstances, but as with almost everything else in life it’s about striking a balance.

Also referred to as the “knew-it-all-along” effect, this common cognitive bias causes us to perceive past events as having been more predictable than they actually were.

As inflation cools and the Federal Reserve cuts rates, an era of economic upheaval is coming to a close, but not without lingering marks.