“Staying up in quality” was a consensus trade coming into 2025. While there was bullishness on Wall Street, the thinking was that elevated interest rates and still-troubled conditions for indebted companies would result in strong-balance-sheet and high-free-cash-flow firms outperforming their lower-qualityFreelance Financial Writer | Investments | Markets | Personal Finance | RetirementI create written content used in various formats including articles, blogs, emails, and social media for financial advisors ...

Goldman Sachs' non-profitable tech basket has soared 66% from the April low. This is perhaps the most telling market-performance and risk-appetite chart to describe recent price action. Investors have clamored for high-beta and low-quality names that can pop the fastest as optimism aboutFreelance Financial Writer | Investments | Markets | Personal Finance | RetirementI create written content used in various formats including articles, blogs, emails, and social media for financial advisors and investment fir ...