James Mackintosh is a Senior Markets Columnist at the Wall Street Journal and an author at Mint. He specializes in finance, covering themes such as capital markets, economic policy, and personal finance, with a focus on trading and the global economy. James has been featured in prominent publications including Financial News, Private Equity News, 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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Speculative small stocks - microcaps - are winning big. Have investors lost their minds?
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When companies as a group turn into sellers, it's a reasonable sign that stocks are very overpriced.
The return of inflation after the pandemic has left a question mark over whether the Put still exists—and plenty of debate about whether it is a good thing.
By: James Mackintosh
We are witnessing an extraordinary transfer of cash from the providers of AI—and, perhaps one day, AI users—to memory-chip makers.
By: James Mackintosh
SpaceX offers a great test for whether passive index-tracking funds are distorting the stock market, with the rockets-to-tweets company’s entry to the Nasdaq-100 index today forcing the massive QQQ ETF to buy its shares. The provisional result is disappointing for investors who thought automatic in
In a world of wars, trade wars and crop failures, bond yields need to be higher than they were because they offer so much less protection than they used to.
James Mackintosh More war. More political conflict. More weather disasters. The future looks grim, and for investors there's worse: The standard ways to protect against such shocks might not work
