Markets are looking increasingly divided between retail favorites and steady performers. - MarketWatch photo illustration/iStockphoto Wall Street lived a tale of two markets this week. Once-popular momentum trades that showered investors with outsize rewards last year finally hit the skids. Wednesday was the worst single-day showing for popular momentum stocks since 2022, based on the performance of Goldman Sachs’s U.S. High-Beta Momentum Index — although the index rallied back to finish the week essenti ...

We're on track to exit 2025 at record valuation multiples for the S&P 500, and with that in mind, one of my top priorities exiting the year is biasing my portfolio toward value plays andWith combined experience of covering technology companies on Wall Street and working in Silicon Valley, and serving as an outside adviser to several seed-round startups, Gary Alexander has exposure to many of the themes shaping the industry today. He has been a regular contributor on Seeking Alpha since 2017. He has been quo ...