Gold and silver prices edged up for the session on Friday, but end lower for a second straight week, as copper posted its biggest weekly percentage loss in a year. What are prices doing? August gold ...
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How retirees should navigate this bear market
Here’s how best to play the market for the rest of 2022: Don’t look. I offer this advice not because I believe the bear market will continue—though of course it could. I would offer the same advice if...
Dow Jumps More Than 800 Points as Fears of Interest-Rate Hikes Subside
Stocks rallied on Friday after fresh economic data tempered investors’ expectations of steep Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes, as major market indexes notched their first weekly gains after three c...
Intel wins latest race in chip uses for the cloud, says KeyBanc Capital Markets
Chip giant Intel Corp. is leading growth in cloud technology, according to new research from KeyBanc Capital Markets. Intel Corp. INTC, +3.21% is the winner in KeyBanc’s latest monthly data tracking s...
The stock market’s return will be minus 3.3% a year over the next decade, says this ‘single greatest predictor’
This month we’ve received both good and bad news from the “single greatest predictor of future stock market returns.” I’m referring to the indicator, first proposed by the Philosophical Economics blog...
Vladimir Putin Slams Western Monetary Policy, Predicts Global Shift to Commodity Reserves
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently blamed the United States and other G7 countries for causing rampant inflation in global commodities markets. Under these circumstances, he predicts the world ...
These dividend stocks yield at least 5% and have plenty of room to raise payouts
This year’s stock price declines make for an increasing number of stocks with high dividend yields of at least 5%. Below is a screen that highlights 29 that appear to be able to raise their payouts co...
The U.S. housing market is teetering on recession. Will the economy soon follow?
The last time the housing market suffered a major meltdown in 2006, it took the entire U.S. economy with it. But history never follows the exact same script twice. The weakening housing market is undo...
Crypto platform Voyager Digital shares plunge 60% after revealing $665 million exposure to embattled hedge fund; considers issuing default notice
Crypto platform Voyager Digital Ltd. VOYG, -52.50% shares plunged more than 60% Wednesday after the company said its subsidiary Voyager Digital LLC, may issue a notice of default to embattled crypto ...
This dividend fund is down 3% vs. S&P’s 20% drop. Here are its top stock picks
By now even the most ardent tech and growth-stock enthusiasts realize the bull market is over. John Kornitzer’s approach to selecting high-quality stocks for the Buffalo Flexible Income Fund is one th...
Powell says U.S. economy can handle the additional rate hikes that are coming
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday pushed back against economists who argue that aggressive Fed interest-rate hikes have increased the odds of a recession or hard landing for the U.S....
Biden Proposes Gas Tax Suspension. That’s Not Why Oil Prices Are Falling.
Text size Crude prices fall as the Biden administration takes more steps to try to lower gasoline prices. Mario Tama/Getty Images Oil prices were falling Wednesday as President Joe Biden prepared to a...
U.S. stock futures drop as Powell testimony looms, recession worries return to the spotlight
Recession worries were back in the spotlight for Wall Street on Wednesday, with equity futures and oil prices dropping, as investors looked ahead to Congressional testimony from Federal Reserve Chairm...
The stock market’s big Tuesday bounce is likely to fizzle out: Capital Economics
It was Turnaround Tuesday for the stock market as investors returned from a three-day weekend following the S&P 500’s worst weekly tumble since 2020. Skeptics see a bear-market bounce that’s likel...
S&P 500 must fall another 15%-20% to price in recession, says Mike Wilson at Morgan Stanley
The price is not right. That’s the verdict from strategists at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, who each warned as a new week kicked off that the stock market wasn’t fully pricing in a recession. And...
Tesla Stock Is Jumping Because Elon Musk Says Competition Doesn’t Matter
Text size Tesla stock fell when the company raised the prices on its website earlier this month. Chris Delmas / AFP via Getty Images Tesla stock is starting a new week on solid footing, at least in pa...
Elon Musk joins the growing chorus fearing a U.S. recession. But there are stocks for that.
Look out above, the dip buyers are back in town. Stocks are soaring — for now — as Wall Street returns from a long holiday weekend, with Fed Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifying in front of Congress...
Commodity guru explains why Bitcoin could emerge as top asset in 2022 H2
The first half of 2022 has been characterised by a broader market sell-off impacting most investment assets amid rising inflation and recession fears. With a focus on the next market movement, senior...
Energy and these 2 other sectors led the S&P 500. Now they’ve tanked. Here’s why that could be good for the stock market.
An unwind of the stock market’s best performing sectors had to happen eventually. And that may be just what this bear market ordered, according to Jonathan Krinsky, chief market technician at BTIG. Si...
Is the U.S. stock market closed today? What investors need to know on Juneteenth.
U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed Monday, June 20, in observance of the Juneteenth holiday, which commemorates the end of slavery in America. Officially known as the Juneteenth National Indep...
Analysts see lowest grades for Bank of America and JPMorgan in Fed’s stress test
Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. emerged with the lowest marks among the overall passing grade for banks in the Fed’s annual stress test, analysts at Jefferies and Citigroup said Fri...