assets

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Yet emerging markets still trade at roughly a 40% discount to developed markets on a forward price-to-earnings basis, according to MSCI—a gap that reflects years of investor preference for U.S. assets during the dollar’s rise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

The ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF, which tracks the group, has $11 billion in assets.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

Putting assets in a trust will allow you to avoid probate.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

Those submarines were discovered over critical assets like undersea pipelines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

And this touches me, somehow, even more than the presumptive lie about his assets: that this place he has described as so morbidly dysfunctional could amount to a real and compelling human community.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich