Raymond James Financial, Inc. RJF

Interest rates are rising again, inflation is still sticky, and suddenly the sleepy corner of brokerage cash and margin lending looks anything but boring. When the Fed pushes the benchmark rate to a range of 3.75% to 4%, every idle dollar in a brokerage account and every margin loan starts to matter more to investors and to the brokers themselves. This article walks through three US retail broker-dealer stocks that screen as exposed to these crosscurrents, and explains how higher-for-longer...