Stephen Gandel
Washington Post
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Recent articles by Stephen:
Trump’s Trade War Has Cost Investors Up to $7 Trillion
Stocks dropped 6.6% in May, and the damage goes back even further. → Read More
Wage Growth Isn’t Threatening Corporate Profits Yet
The pressure hasn’t reached a critical level. → Read More
BlackRock Doesn’t Need to Roll Like a Blackstone
The firm shouldn’t feel an urgency to chase private equity deals like the rest of Wall Street. → Read More
Tech Stocks Morph Into a Three-Headed Monster
Their influence cannot be contained to just one sector. → Read More
The Conventional Wisdom About Stock Buybacks Is Wrong
Stock repurchases may not be the best use of a company’s money, but not because they benefit shareholders over everyone else. → Read More
LaCroix’s Cries of ‘Injustice’ Don’t Apply to Stock Drop
The plunge in the sparkling water maker’s shares has more to do with an overvalued stock and investors’ outsize expectations than unfair persecution. → Read More
Rally in Cyclical Stocks Could Be a False Positive
Corporate profits are telling a different economic story. → Read More
Don’t Like Buybacks? It’s Harder to Bet on the Flip Side
Shares of companies that reinvest their profits are doing better than those that repurchase stock. If only it were easier to invest that way. → Read More
Don’t Like Buybacks? It’s Harder to Bet on the Flip Side
Shares of companies that reinvest their profits are doing better than those that repurchase stock. If only it were easier to invest that way. → Read More
Private Equity Likes the Look of Blackstone’s Real Estate Model
The investment giant turned to real estate, a market flush with deal flow and liquidity, and others are following. → Read More
BlackRock Needs to Prove It Can Handle Success
It has thrived with low-cost indexing, which brings its own set of challenges. → Read More
Why Is This Oil and Gas Company Playing Poker?
It told SPAC investors it planned to do energy deals. This is how it turned out. → Read More
If the Stock Market Has a Problem, His Job Is to Fix It
Brett Redfearn of the SEC has a full plate: IPOs, high-frequency trading, exchange fees and the price of data. → Read More
Trump’s ‘Tremendous Buy’ Stock Market Isn’t a Bargain
The numbers don’t support the argument that shares are oversold. → Read More
Even Jamie Dimon Should Answer to Someone
JPMorgan’s failure to disclose a six-year ban on expanding branches shows shareholders need more representation. → Read More
Fears Are Overtaking Facts In Market Sell-Off
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Putting your finger on what’s spooking the market in the past week or so has been difficult. The recent sell-off appeared to be launched by fears of rising interest rates. When rates stopped rising, trade tensions were the new No. 1 concern. → Read More
This Small Bank Could Signal Trouble for the Biggest Ones
Investors are punishing Bank OZK, which could be a canary in the coal mine when it comes to commercial real estate. → Read More
Big Bank Earnings Are Less Than Meets the Eye
Strip out one-time gains and benefits from the tax cut, and profit growth in the third quarter was just 5 percent. → Read More
JPMorgan Chase Defies the Market’s Nervousness
Third-quarter earnings were better than expected, but the trend lines are starting to move in the wrong direction. → Read More
Solomon Kicks Up the Tempo on Goldman’s Remix
Playing down Marcus could cause the bank to skip a few beats. → Read More