Gold prices kicked off the first trading session of 2023 on Tuesday by advancing to fresh 6-month highs, bolstered by lower bond yields and expectations about more central-bank buying. Other precious ...
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Dow futures jump more than 300 points as traders start 2023 on a bullish note
U.S. stock futures rose as investors returned from the festive break in a generally bullish mood. How are stock-index futures trading S&P 500 futures ES00, +0.84% advanced 41 points, or 1.1%, to 3...
After a rough 2022, U.S. stock futures rise ahead of first trading week of 2023
U.S. stock-market futures rose Monday, suggesting gains ahead of the first trading day of 2023. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, +0.22% jumped more than 200 points out of the gate, but initi...
For Battered Bonds, Threats of Further Losses Linger
The year 2022 marked a truly historic bust for the U.S. bond market. The question now is whether 2023 will produce any kind of meaningful rebound. Normally a safe investment, U.S. bonds delivered loss...
BP and Shell Are a Buy in 2023. Why They’re Cheaper Than U.S. Oil Giants.
It was a great year for oil companies such as Exxon Chevron Shell and BP But the giants of European energy are still trading at significantly lower valuations than their American counterparts, which m...
Here’s a New Year’s resolution: resist the temptation to bet on the top mutual fund of 2022
Beating the stock market is not that big of a deal. What’s really impressive — and what you should be looking for when using performance scoreboards to choose a mutual fund — is one that has beaten th...
Why the consumer is ‘critical’ for investors to watch in 2023 as bear market ‘not yet complete’
The fate of the U.S. consumer is weighing on the outlook for markets in 2023. “The issue is that consumers are actually spending at a pace that is faster than their income growth, and have been for t...
These 3 Sectors Have Had a Good Run. They Still Look Strong for 2023.
Yes, the stock market can always get worse—and that means three of this year’s best-performing sectors could continue to outperform in 2023. After a punishing 2022, Wall Street isn’t expecting the sit...
The U.S. dollar surrendered its status as the world’s premier safe haven in Q4. Here’s how.
The U.S. dollar’s status as one of the few dependable safe havens for investors during this year’s market mayhem started to erode during the fourth quarter, even as the greenback posted its biggest ye...
Treasury yields post record rise in worst year ‘within any of our lifetimes’ for bond investors
Treasury yields moved mostly higher in a holiday-shortened session Friday, capping a brutal, record-breaking bond-market selloff in 2022. Trading in U.S. fixed-income markets closed an hour early at 2...
Stocks got wrecked by rate shock in 2022. Here’s what will drive markets in 2023
2022 is over. Take a breath. Investors were understandably eager to ring the bell on the stock market’s worst year since 2008, with the S&P 500 SPX, -0.25% falling 19.4%, the Dow Jones Industrial ...
Did DOJ Just Classify MNGO as Commodity?
The arrest of Mango Markets exploiter has drawn reactions from the crypto community, particularly regarding the terms of the charges he faces. Mango (MNGO) markets exploiter, Avraham Eisenberg, was re...
Troubles at Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Began Well Before Crypto Crash
Sam Bankman-Fried built the cryptocurrency exchange FTX on the reputation of his trading firm, Alameda Research LLC. Alameda was applying Wall Street-style wizardry to the crypto world—and outsiders t...
Stock-market investors face 3 recession scenarios in 2023
With the U.S. stock market on track for its biggest annual decline in over a decade, fears that efforts by the Federal Reserve and other major central banks to bring down a surge in inflation will spa...
Opinion: 11 predictions for money, technology, stocks and crypto for 2023
Here are some 2023 predictions for financial markets, the economy and stocks. I’ve spent the last year and a half being cautious in the wake of the Bubble-Blowing Bull Market that finally ended early ...
U.S. stocks fall on last trading day of 2022, booking monthly losses and worst year since 2008
U.S. stocks ended lower Friday, booking their worst annual losses since 2008, as tax-loss harvesting along with anxieties about the outlook for corporate profits and the U.S. consumer took their toll....
‘I dug myself out of the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle’: Should I use my bonus to pay off my mortgage, put it in a savings account or Vanguard?
Dear Quentin, Over the last couple years I dug myself out of the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle, and I am making good money. I never learned about stocks, investing, etc. I do not have a 401(k) at work. M...
Is the U.S. stock market open the day after New Year’s?
Many investors likely can’t wait for a brutal 2022 to end. Stocks are facing their worst annual performance since 2008, while bond returns are the worst in decades or, in some cases, in history. The c...
Li Auto sees record EV deliveries in December
Li Auto Inc. said Friday that it delivered more than 20,000 electric vehicles in December, which is more than 33% above the previous monthly record delivered last month. The China-based EV maker’s ann...
Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are the Hours for the New Year’s Weekend.
From a macro perspective, 2022 didn’t offer investors much to clink champagne glasses over. The past several months have served up inflation and layoffs—plus a recession seems to be on the horizon for...
DOJ did not classify MNGO as a commodity
Avraham Eisenberg was arrested in Puerto Rico on Dec. 26 on commodities fraud and manipulation charges relating to the $110 million exploit of the decentralized Mango Markets exchange. Eisenberg had s...
Opinion: The stock market is range-bound over the short term. Don’t expect that to last long.
The U.S. stock market, as measured by the S&P 500 Index SPX, +1.75%, has struggled this week overall, during what is typically a seasonally bullish period. That is what Yale Hirsch termed “the San...
Opinion: Crypto insurance is nearly nonexistent, so you’ll have to rely on common sense
If only your bitcoin could catch on fire — literally — then it might have a chance of being covered by insurance. For property, fire is a straightforward hazard. But it’s probably the one big thing th...