As banking system seized up crypto networks didn’t miss a…

Banking system instability caused widespread panic over the last few days. On the other hand, crypto networks continued operating without missing a beat. Mistakes in banking were to blame for bank run...

Dow logs new 2023 low as bank sector tumbles, investors await monthly employment report

U.S. stocks finished sharply lower on Thursday, with the financial sector logging a sharp one-day drop, while investors awaited Friday’s February employment data that could help decide how large an in...

Powell’s comments slammed markets. Here’s what one bank sees for stocks, bonds.

The market really took Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s words at face value on Tuesday. Short-term yields rose, and the stock market slumped, with this comment: recent data suggest “the ultimate ...

U.S. stock futures unable to rebound from latest sell-off as more Powell talk looms

U.S. stock futures were struggling to recover from the latest sell-off as worries about a more hawkish Federal Reserve continued to push up bond yields. How are stock-index futures trading S&P 500...

U.S. stock futures retain Wall Street’s rally ahead of Powell testimony and jobs data

U.S. stock futures were steady early Monday, holding their latest rally ahead of testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and crucial jobs data later in the week. How are stock-index futures...

Stock market faces crucial test this week: 3 questions to decide rally’s fate

There will be no rest for investors this week as they await a marquee report on the state of the U.S. labor market, along with biannual Congressional testimony from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Pow...

Buying stocks is just not worth the risk today, these analysts say. They have a better way for you to get returns as high as 5%.

After being written off as irrelevant for much of the past decade, the equity risk premium, a gauge of the potential reward investors might reap from buying stocks, has fallen to its lowest level sinc...

Warren Buffett backs stock buybacks, which Joe Biden is trying to tax more

President Joe Biden devoted part of his State of the Union to decrying stock buybacks, a practice he often rails against. Oil and gas companies, he said, didn’t invest in production to keep gas prices...

Asian shares follow Wall Street lower after stronger-than-expected data

BANGKOK (AP) — Shares fell Monday in Asia after Wall Street benchmarks closed out their worst week since early December. U.S. futures edged higher while oil prices fell. Reports on inflation, the jobs...

Stocks Poised for Mixed Open

U.S. stocks are poised for a mixed open on Monday, as the market enters the tail end of fourth-quarter earnings season amid several well-watched economic indicators, including the Conference Board’s C...

How the Ohio Derailment May Power a Company With Deep Roots in Train Safety

Derailments have plagued trains since their invention, sometimes driving change. This past week, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg responded to the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment and toxic s...

The Walking Dead Price, Stats, a…

What is an VOX Collectibles: The Walking Dead? VOX Collectibles: The Walking Dead are a non-fungible tokens collection built on the Ethereum network launched in 26 March, 2022. 8,087 items of the VOX ...

Bonds are right and stocks are wrong. Here’s what you should do about it, says BlackRock

The final session of Wall Street’s holiday-shortened trading week will see the S&P 500 open pretty much smack in the middle of the 3,800 to 4,200 range it’s inhabited for more than three months. D...

U.S. stock futures weaken ahead of key inflation data

U.S. stock futures on Friday edged lower, as investors awaited key data on inflation for further clues on whether the Federal Reserve will have to keep lifting interest rates. What’s happening Dow Jon...

6-month T-bill rate rises to nearly 16-year high after release of Fed minutes

The yield on the 6-month T-bill rose to an almost 16-year high on Wednesday after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting indicated that all policy makers wanted to keep hiking interest rates....

Stock market saw worst day of 2023 because it’s unclear where rates will peak

Rising Treasury yields appeared Tuesday to finally catch up with a previously resilient stock market, leaving the Dow Jones Industrial Average and other major indexes with their worst day so far of 20...

Dow falls over 400 points, dragged down by earnings, rising bond yields

U.S. stocks ended sharply lower on Tuesday, with major indexes suffering the worst daily percentage declines in over two months, as downbeat guidance from major retailers, rising Treasury yields and e...

The end of easy money is bad news for these stock sectors, says Evercore ISI

The utility and real estate sectors are most at risk from the end of easy money, but healthier household balance sheets should support consumer-facing stocks, say strategists at Evercore ISI. The worl...

Investors have pushed stocks into the death zone, warns Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson

What’s the best metaphor to describe the stock market, that has sent the S&P 500 up 16% from its October lows, and up 6% this year? Morgan Stanley strategist Mike Wilson has turned to the Jon Krak...

NFT Collection Psychedelics Anonymous Component 2 Price, Stats, a…

What is an Psychedelics Anonymous Component 2? Psychedelics Anonymous Component 2 are a non-fungible tokens collection built on the Ethereum network launched in 26 January, 2022. 1,909 items of the Ps...

The Solana [SOL] rally from $20 is not yet over as $23.5 is only a…

Disclaimer: The information presented does not constitute financial, investment, trading, or other types of advice and is solely the writer’s opinion. Although the sentiment is bullish around Solana, ...

A potential stock-market catastrophe in the making: Risky option bets put Wall Street on edge

Professional and amateur traders are flocking to a risky type of equity option that some have likened to lottery tickets, drawn by the opportunity to reap massive returns in the span of just a few hou...

Here’s where the 60/40 could really fail you. But a better option may be under your nose.

Only once in the past 100 years have America’s long-term savers done worse than they did last year. Only in 1974 — the year of Watergate, OPEC embargoes, gas lines and recession — did the standard, be...

Want to play the lottery? These are the most speculative stocks of the year, by one measure

It’s 13-F season, which means the world gets to find out most of what the world’s top fund managers have been up, on a tape-delay basis. The likes of Warren Buffett and Carl Icahn it is fair to say ar...

U.S. stock futures point to cautious open as inflation data looms

U.S. stock futures were barely changed as wariness over inflation and rate rises suppressed risk appetite. How are stock-index futures trading S&P 500 futures ES00, +0.14% rose 2 points, or less t...

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Traders brace for a blowup as cost of protection for U.S. stocks hits highest level since October

The cost of hedging against another equity market blowup has risen to its highest level since October as investors brace for a surge in volatility as U.S. stocks head for their worst week in nearly tw...

This nearly 150-year-old fund hasn’t cut its dividend since 1938. Here are the stocks it likes, and four it doesn’t.

Markets are stuck, as evidenced by Thursday’s session in which early gains were met with closing losses. There really wasn’t a rhyme or reason to it, with Tuesday’s CPI report likely the North Pole to...

No wonder Powell didn’t commit to extra hikes. Here are five reasons the January jobs report may be too good to be true.

Traders took heart that Fed Chair Jerome Powell, when he wasn’t being questioned by David Rubinstein on how he gets by on $190,000 per year, didn’t commit on Tuesday to having to be even more aggressi...

Goldman Sachs ups its near-term S&P 500 target due to brighter economic picture. But that could knock 25% off stocks, strategists say.

Provided there are no more economic surprises, stocks are unlikely to face a near-term meltdown and the S&P 500 could work its way back to 4,000. That’s according to a team of Goldman Sachs strate...

Treasury yields jump after surge in U.S. job growth

Treasury yields jumped Friday, erasing what had been weekly declines for 2- and 10-year notes, after a much stronger-than-expected U.S. January jobs report clouded investor expectations for the Federa...

The stock-market rally survived a confusing week. Here’s what comes next.

Despite a Friday stumble, stocks ended a turbulent week with another round of solid gains, keeping 2023’s young but robust stock-market rally very much alive. But a cloud of confusion also sets over t...