I:RUT Dec 2025 1350.000 put
| Previous Close | 17.10 |
| Open | 17.10 |
| Bid | 11.00 |
| Ask | 21.00 |
| Strike | 1,350.00 |
| Expire Date | 2025-12-19 |
| Day's Range | 17.10 - 17.10 |
| Contract Range | N/A |
| Volume | |
| Open Interest | 638 |
- Yahoo Finance Video
Great investing debate: Growth or value stocks post-rate cuts?
It's an age-old question among investors: which is better, growth investing or value investing? After the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut this week kicked off a highly-anticipated easing cycle, Catalysts hosts Seana Smith and Madison Mills spoke with a panel of experts about how the two investment strategies could play out in the months to come. Vontobel portfolio manager Markus Hansen and Greenwich Wealth's CIO Vahan Janjigian join Catalysts to lay out their investment thesis. Vahan favors value over growth — but says he's not a strict value investor. "What I really favor is stocks that are undervalued," he says, "and in many cases, that can be growth stocks." In terms of investments, Vahan notes he's leaning toward traditional value stocks, like IBM (IBM), Verizon (VZ), and Pfizer (PFE). And in the wake of the Fed's latest rate cut, Vahan sees small caps (IWM) as benefitting from changes to the yield curve. "I think as things normalize, we'll get back to what's considered normal. And that means value stocks outperform growth stocks and small cap stocks outperform large cap stocks." Markus and his team at Vontobel are quality growth focused. He says post-rate cut, he expects dividends will get a lot of love from investors. That's why he's favoring "good old fashioned names" like Coca-Cola (KO), Walmart (WMT), Home Depot (HD), and PepsiCo (PEP) for their sustained dividend growth. Luxury is also a sector he finds compelling for its wide economic moat. "It requires time to build that heritage, and to be the top brand," he says, and that longevity makes companies like Hermes (RMS.PA), Ferrari (RACE), and Richemont (CFR.SW) compelling. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Catalysts. This post was written by Kathleen Welch
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Fade small caps, turn to midcaps and industrials: Strategist
As the market (^DJI,^GSPC, ^IXIC) reacts to the Federal Reserve’s first rate cut in four years, John Hancock investment management co-chief investment strategist Emily Roland joins Brad Smith and Seana Smith on Morning Brief to take a closer look at navigating the market amid changing sentiment. “It's six straight days of gains leading markets higher [and] riskier assets are really celebrating this idea that the Fed can stave off a hard landing, prevent a contraction from happening, do it proactively before we see more weakness here in the labor market,” Roland tells Yahoo Finance. The strategist says there are three key signs that a soft landing can be achieved. “The first one is that you need to see no real further cracks in the labor market.” Secondly, Roland is watching credit market conditions. “The final thing is the fed actually has to deliver on what the bond market is pricing in.” Roland indicates the bond market has priced in another 50 basis points cut this year, and another 100 points cut in 2025, which is consistent with the Fed’s dot plot. “You're seeing the riskiest parts of the market, the most cyclical areas, small caps really being a poster child for that really taking off amidst this dovish turn from the Fed, but at the end of the day, there's not a lot of fundamental support for it.” Roland believes a lot of the upside is already priced into small caps. “When you look at the outperformance of small caps, they're up 8% [to] 9% quarter to date. While the S&P 500 is up about 3%. You're seeing some profit taking in large-cap names and a rotation into small caps. We really see that as a sentiment-driven rally.” “Of [small caps’] 8% return this quarter, it's been entirely driven by multiple expansion, not earnings growth. In fact, in the second quarter, the S&P 500 saw double-digit positive earnings growth. Small cap equities saw 15% negative year-over-year earnings growth for the second quarter,” Roland says, adding that analysts expect this “muted earnings growth” to persist in the third quarter. Believing the upside is already priced into small caps, Roland says “we continue to overweight the quality factor. So these are companies with great balance sheets, tons of cash, good free cash flow, the ability to maintain margins in an environment where margins pressure is happening and playing out right now. So the poster child for high quality is going to be megacap tech.” For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Morning Brief. This post was written by Naomi Buchanan.
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Market can 'continue to work' through Fed cuts, earnings growth
Lazard chief market strategist Ron Temple joins Market Domination Overtime to discuss the state of the market (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) and its outlook as the Federal Reserve has officially kicked off its interest rate easing cycle. "I think the market is well positioned to continue to gain ground over the long term and the intermediate term. I think the Fed's decision this week to cut rates by 50 basis points was somewhat unexpected — yes, priced by the market — but most economists and strategists, including myself, did not think they would actually go through with the 50. I'm glad that they did. I think they effectively bought an insurance policy against excessive weakening in the labor market. Now you combine that with a strong corporate sector, a strong household sector, good corporate earnings, this is a market that can continue to work," Temple tells Yahoo Finance. He notes that the election could be a risk moving forward, explaining that the combination of the winning presidential candidate and whichever party secures control of Congress has the potential to change the United States' economic trajectory. He also points to the growing deficit as a longer-term concern: "You can't continue to run a 6% of GDP [Gross Domestic Product] deficit and expect not to have some consequences down the road." With the third quarter earnings season on deck, Temple expects to see a broadening of corporate profit out of Big Tech and into the rest of the S&P 500 (^GSPC). "When you look, for example, at the second quarter earnings season that we wrapped up about a month ago, the big six tech stocks had earnings gains of over 40%. The rest of the market only delivered about 5% earnings growth year-on-year. By the fourth quarter of this year, the consensus is that's going to narrow down to a 21% earnings growth for the big six tech stocks and 9 to 10% for the rest of the market." For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Market Domination Overtime. This post was written by Melanie Riehl
