The Winning Stock Funds This Time Weren’t Tech. They Were Energy.

New York Times - Oct 9, 2026

Stock and bond fund returns for the quarter were bad nearly everywhere you looked, our columnist says. Energy stocks, lifted by the war with Iran, were an exception.

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