At least 6 signs show the stock market is starting to break down

Strap in! It could be a bumpy ride this year. Financial markets are off to a woeful start for the bulls in 2022. Blame surging inflation, an out-of-step Federal Reserve, or a nagging pandemic. But wha...

The Nasdaq Composite just logged its 66th correction since 1971—here’s what history says happens next in the stock market

The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -1.15% on Wednesday booked its first close in correction territory since March with a rapid surge in Treasury yields, and expectations for interest-rate increases from...

The 60/40 portfolio ‘is in danger’ as Federal Reserve gears up for a rate-hike cycle in coming months

The traditional portfolio mix of 60% stocks and 40% bonds, historically seen as the safest allocation for investors of moderate-risk tolerance, “is in danger” as the Federal Reserve gears up for its f...

Tesla Earnings Estimates Are Rising, but the Stock Is Down

Text size Tesla stock hasn’t been responding to rising earnings estimates. Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images Tesla ‘s fourth-quarter earnings are due out on Jan. 26. As the day approaches, Wall S...

Ford’s Rivian Stake Is Worth Billions. Why That Might Be a Problem.

Text size Ford Motor Company’ logo Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images Despite recent stock volatility, Ford Motor is making a mint on its investment in electric truck startup Rivian Automotive ....

Here’s what history says about the Nasdaq Composite’s near-term returns after closing below its 200-day moving average

The Nasdaq Composite Index notched its first close below a closely watched, long-term trend line since April of 2020, and investors may be wondering how the benchmark tends to perform in the near to i...

Brace for a volatile 2022, but cling to this tech stalwart when the storm comes, says investment adviser

The pain is piling up for equity investors after the long U.S. holiday weekend, with bond yields at levels not seen since early 2020, and oil prices tapping 2014 highs. The pace of Federal Reserve mon...

Alibaba Stock May See Its Worst Day of 2022. Here Are Two Reasons Why.

Text size Alibaba stock has outperformed much of the tech sector so far in 2022. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Alibaba stock is poised to take one of the biggest tumbles of the year Tuesday as inves...

Brazilian Asset Manager Hashdex to Launch DeFi ETF Including UNI, AAVE and COMP

This article is adapted from CoinDesk Brasil, a brand-new partnership between CoinDesk and InfoMoney, one of Brazil’s leading financial news publications. Follow CoinDesk Brasil on Twitter. Braz...

Tech Is Falling Again. Why Apple, Tesla, and Other Tech Stocks Are Still Buys.

Text size Apple and other tech stocks have had a rough start to 2022. They could still be good picks. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tech stocks are getting slammed yet again, for familiar reasons. Inve...

Is the stock market open today? Here are the trading hours on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Stock and bond markets in the U.S. will be closed Monday, January 17 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, offering traders a rest after a volatile start to the year. The Securities Industry a...

Is the Stock Market Open Today? These Are the Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2022 Hours.

Text size Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Investors looking for a brief respite from two weeks of volatile trading on Wall Street may get one on Mo...

Fed needs to ‘shock and awe’ the market with one big rate hike, Bill Ackman says

Billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman said the Federal Reserve needs to deliver old-fashioned “shock and awe” to financial markets by delivering a much larger onetime increase to benchmark intere...

Get ready for the climb. Here’s what history says about stock-market returns during Fed rate-hike cycles.

Bond yields are rising again so far in 2022. The U.S. stock market seems vulnerable to a bona fide correction. But what can you really tell from a mere two weeks into a new year? Not much and quite a ...

Why a falling dollar signals ‘markets are in wonderland’ over inflation and Fed

The U.S. dollar is offering up an early 2022 head scratcher: Why does the currency keep falling even as traders aggressively pencil in as many as four interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve th...

‘We absolutely believe Ether’ surpassing bitcoin’s total market value ‘can happen this year,’ says ETF expert: ‘The bull case is an Etherum ETF in 2022’

Hello there! The Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ is up over 2% so far this week. That is not where many investors would have bet that the popular exchange-traded fund would be trading now based on the wild acti...

Here’s what a Russian invasion of Ukraine would mean for markets

Fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are on the rise, prompting analysts and traders to weigh the potential financial-market shock waves. “If Russia invades Ukraine, the trade is buy TY,” wrote Bren...

‘There’s no way the stock market goes up this year — it probably goes down pretty aggressively,’ says hedge-fund honcho Kyle Bass

Don’t expect stock-market gains in 2022 if the Federal Reserve sticks to its guns on rate hikes and tightening overall financial conditions, says Kyle Bass, founder and chief investment officer of Hay...

Tesla Stock Is Down. Don’t Blame Cybertruck.

Text size Tesla stock appears to be dropping after a report that the company changed the language on its Cybertruck webpage. Robyn Beck / AFP via Getty Images Tesla stock is down a little Wednesday. T...

Here are the ETFs to buy on persistently higher inflation in 2022 and beyond, says BlackRock’s head of iShares strategy

Given an outlook for high U.S. inflation that’s likely to persist beyond 2022, Gargi Chaudhuri of BlackRock Inc., the world’s biggest asset manager, says investors should continue to hedge their portf...

The yield curve is no longer sending a don’t-worry-be-happy signal, warns bond king Jeffrey Gundlach

The S&P 500 SPX, +0.28% snapped a five-session losing streak on Tuesday, after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell vowed the central bank would use its “tools” to get inflation under control wi...

Fed has to be ‘far more aggressive…than the Street thinks,’ says academic who called Dow 20,000: ‘This is too much money chasing too few goods’

Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, on Wednesday sounded sanguine about the equity market, even as he conceded that inflation is likely ...

Shopify Stock Has Dropped a Ton. Is It Time to Buy?

Dreamstime Text size Shopify stock has gotten hit hard during the recent tech selloff. William Blair analyst Matthew Pfau says it’s a buying opportunity In a note Wednesday, Pfau upgraded Shopify (tic...

Rivian Stock Drops on Hints of Vehicle Production Issues

Text size 2022 Rivian R1T Courtesy of Rivian Stock in electric truck startup Rivian Automotive was falling Tuesday because of two issues that impact the same key success factor for the company: vehicl...

Expect more than 4 rate increases in 2022, and a lot of market volatility, says JPMorgan’s Dimon: ‘If we’re lucky’ the Fed can engineer a “soft landing.”‘

JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM, +0.10% CEO Jamie Dimon said the consumer remains in great shape in 2022 but also said volatility could be elevated in financial markets as the Federal Reserve aims to nav...

Stock Market Today: The Dow Drops 500 Points, Tech Stocks Keep Sinking

Text size Markets see the Federal Reserve first hiking interest rates in March. Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images Stocks continued to slide Monday, with technology stocks getting hit the hardest as bond y...

Nasdaq Composite ends 3 percentage points from correction, as investors react to Fed, Friday’s jobs report

U.S. stocks ended lower Friday, in a turbulent session that concluded with all three major benchmarks suffering weekly declines, following a monthly jobs report whose headline figure came in far below...

Tesla Self-Driving Is Getting So Good, It Will Cost More

Tesla CEO Elon Musk was tweeting about Full Self Driving on Friday night. Patrick Pleul/Pool/Getty Images Text size Elon Musk had two positive tweets for weary Tesla investors to digest on Friday. For...

Not Even GameStop Stock Can Fight the Fed

Text size A Tesla electric vehicle drives through the Las Vegas Convention Center loop at the CES 2022 show this past week. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images The stock market is supposed to be forwar...

Fed Minutes Suggest More Stock-Market Turmoil Could Lie Ahead

Text size Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Sometimes you need to read something in black and white to believe it. That may explain why the stock market sold off sharp...

Tesla Stock Is Falling Again. Why Shares Are Giving Back Big Delivery Gains.

Text size Tesla stock is up about 3% this year after giving back its double-digit gain from the first trading day of 2022. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla opened the year with strong fourth-quarter...

Bitcoin Tanked After the Fed Minutes Were Released. Here’s Why.

Text size Proponents of Bitcoin argue that its limited supply should make it an inflation-proof asset akin to gold. Dreamstime Bitcoin slid sharply after the Federal Reserve released minutes of its De...