Ivanna Hampton: Welcome to Investing Insights. I’m your host, Ivanna Hampton. Investing Insights is helping investors navigate market volatility in a new series. Morningstar strategists and authors ...

Our Chief Equity Strategist and Economist, John Blank, wrote recently that the bulk of what happened to large cap U.S. stock indices over the last month was a stock options volatility spike, and a ...

Subscribers to Chart of the Week received this commentary on Sunday, May 11. Stay on our website for longer than five minutes and you’re bound to find references to Schaeffer’s Volatility Scorecard ...

Investors panicked in April after President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs. Fears that the levies would reignite inflation and spark a global trade war drove a 19% top-to-bottom decline ...

An important financial paradox is the excess volatility puzzle. First identified by Robert Shiller in 1981, the excess volatility puzzle says that asset prices fluctuate much more than information ...

Tariffs and trade tensions are accelerating a broad stock market sell-off. Use stock prices as a tool rather than a measuring stick for what a company is worth. Passive income from more stable ...

The major stock indexes are down so far this year, but all had double-digit returns in 2025. The order, or sequence, of gains and losses in the stock market during retirement can impact the longevity ...