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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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.
Read this exciting story from The Wall Street Journal June 03, 2026 issue. Alphabet’s $80 billion stock-based fundraising should be taken as a rebuke to those salivating over the forthcoming initial public offerings of SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic.
By: James Mackintosh
When speculative small stocks win big, often it’s because investors aren’t thinking straight.
Speculative small stocks - microcaps - are winning big. Have investors lost their minds?
Read this exciting story from The Wall Street Journal June 06, 2026 issue. When speculative small stocks win big, often it’s because investors aren't thinking straight
There used to be a reliable additional bump from admission to indexes, but it has become less certain recently.
When companies as a group turn into sellers, it’s a reasonable sign that stocks are very overpriced.
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.
