Wall Street equities finished lower Thursday following a mixed US retail sales report, while European luxury stocks pushed higher following strong results from Cartier owner Richemont.

Strong bank earnings failed to sustain a rally on Wall Street, but stocks in Europe and Asia pushed higher. European and Asian indices gained after Wednesday's Wall Street rally.

Richemont delivered stunning holiday quarter performance with luxury jewelry sales up 14%, while Signet reported holiday accessible/mass-market jewelry sales down 2%.

Katie Potts (pictured) has led Herald Investment Trust since its inception 30 years ago and has been hailed for her backing of a host of successful British firms.

Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) has been described as the best pure-play stock in artificial intelligence. The market agrees, sending shares of PLTR stock some 342% higher over the past year, far better than Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA),

Learn from Hetty Green, the Witch of Wall Street. Follow her two golden rules: buy low, sell high with thrift and shrewdness. Remain rational in chaos.

Han Youngsoo chronicled the postwar transformation of mid-century Seoul, complicating popular depictions of that era as one solely of deprivation and hardship.

Wall Street's Greatest Dividend Stock -- a Small-Cap Company 99% of Investors Have Never Heard of -- Is the Cheapest It's Been in Over a Decade

SLB helped lead the market after the provider of services to oilfields delivered bigger profit and revenue for the end of 2024 than analysts expected. It jumped 6.1% after it also raised its dividend by 3.6% and said it’s returning $2.3 billion to its investors by buying back its own stock.

U.S. stock indexes rallied to close out their best week in two months. The S&P 500 rose 1% Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.8%, and the Nasdaq composite

In the euphoric markets of 2024, the biggest sin was skepticism. A white-hot runup in risky assets made life miserable for anyone buying into the frenzy of fresh products that Wall Street was hawking to hedge and diversify.

Another engine of value creation for Wall Street that has been slow in recent years is the IPO market — which is also set to pick up.