Forty years ago marked the start of a bull market in bonds that would last for decades. No one saw it coming.

On Wall Street, hype almost always leads to heartache. Investors who hopped on the China bandwagon are learning that lesson the hard way.

Billions of dollars have poured into real-estate investment trusts this year. But chasing a hot asset class can cool it off .

From “penny dreadfuls” to comic books to music, often the best way to make a business boom has been to try limiting it.

Investors who no longer fear their bets could explode are seeking out risks they don’t have to take.

Your investment inertia could be costing you thousands of dollars. Here’s how to break out of it.

Investors often prefer to stick their heads in the sand rather than confront the evidence in front of them.

The popular trading app isn’t the first to sell a piece of itself to its own customers. Investors who jumped on prior brokerage-firm IPOs often ended up shooting themselves in the foot.

In the stock market, the past never repeats itself exactly. Trying to convince people otherwise can backfire.

An 8% return on government bonds? Only a nutty calculation can make it so.