James Mackintosh is a Senior Markets Columnist at Mint. He covers a range of topics within finance, including global markets, international finance, and debt management, with a particular focus on trading and financial markets. James has been featured in notable publications such as Financial News, The Wall Street Journal, and Yahoo Finance.
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James Mackintosh's articles primarily focus on investment analysis and cite data to support his insights. His coverage largely revolves around finance, investing, stock market, Federal Reserve, and inflation in the United States.
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James Mackintosh Financial history provides lots of lessons, but few are more obvious than those regarding lending.
Investors already factor in cyclicality in the chip industry. The bad news is that they’ve frequently gotten their assessments wrong.
Investors already factor in cyclicality in the chip industry. The bad news is that they've frequently gotten their assessments wrong.
U.S. stocks offer the lowest dividend yields since the dotcom bubble in 2000.
Tech stock bulls have driven up the shares of companies that don’t pay dividends and are preparing to welcome more in the IPOs of SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic.
The slow-but-steady dividends that some investors prefer are getting left behind in a market where companies are rewarded for focusing on the future of artificial intelligence and plowing profits back into capital spending rather than paying them out to shareholders.
By: James Mackintosh
Plus, the SpaceX monopoly and the memory rally.
Read this exciting story from The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026 issue. Rising Treasury yields this year have been explained as markets finally recognizing various potential disasters: Soaring inflation! Loss of trust in the Fed! Insane government borrowing!
By: James Mackintosh
For the first time since the 2008 global financial crisis, a stock has jumped straight from the small-cap ranks to the mega-capitalization segment of Russell indexes—driven by excitement about artificial intelligence. Bloom Energy, a fuel-cell producer now harnessing its units to power data centers
By: James Mackintosh
In AI, money talks. The ability to tap stock market capital is important again, after a quarter of a century of being all but irrelevant.
