Death cross crystallizes in Nasdaq Composite on Friday for first time in 2 years, in a bearish sign for the stock market

The Nasdaq Composite index has produced a “death cross” chart pattern on Friday, a bearish chart pattern for an asset. History suggests this occurrence could weigh on the broader stock market over the...

Presidents Day or Washington’s Birthday? Is the stock market open? Here are trading hours.

U.S. financial markets will be closed on Monday in observance of Presidents Day, or Washington’s Birthday, if you prefer. The Intercontinental Exchange Inc. ICE, -1.96% -owned New York Stock Exchange ...

Stock market faces the most ‘massive misallocation’ of ‘capital in the history of mankind,’ says ARK’s Cathie Wood

Cathie Wood, the star fund manager and chief executive of ARK Invest, took to CNBC to defend the woeful performance of the manager’s suite of disruptive innovation funds. Wood told the business networ...

How Oil Could Hit $150. It’s Not Just About Russia.

Text size West Texas intermediate crude oil was trading near $94 a barrel on Monday. Spencer Platt/Getty Images By one measure, oil prices could rise to $150 a barrel this year, which would be the hig...

Inflation, Interest-Rate Jitters, and Putin Are Brewing a Fierce Storm for the Stock Market

Text size A Ukrainian soldier in the Kharkiv region near the Russian border. Will Putin pull the trigger on an invasion? Sergey Bobok/AFP/Getty Images We were waist deep in the Big Muddy, and the big ...

Why is bitcoin rallying 10% Friday? Crypto clambers to perch above $40,000 following jobs report.

Bitcoin was in rally mode on Friday, ascending to a two-week high above $40,000. More specifically, the cryptocurrency BTCUSD, +2.41% was trading at around $40,245 on Friday with a nearly 10% gain ove...

U.S. Stock Futures Poised for Lower Open on Monday

Stocks are poised to open lower on Monday. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Text size Here’s what you need to know to navigate the markets today. • U.S. stocks are set to open Monday slightly down. On Sunday n...

What ETFs are retail investors loading up amid stock market volatility? Here’s what some are doing (and aren’t).

Hello there! Got volatility? We bet you do as the Federal Reserve signaled on Wednesday that interest rate increases in 2022 are its main priority. There is nothing new there, as investors had expecte...

Tesla Earnings ‘Disappointed.’ Why Analysts Are Raising Their Price Targets.

Text size The inside of a Tesla car Model 3 is seen at a Tesla shop inside of a shopping Mall in Beijing on May 26, 2021. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images Tesla stock was falling Thursday after re...

Tesla’s Earnings Beat Was Better Than You Think. Here’s Why.

Text size Joe Raedle/Getty Images Tesla’s quarterly earnings call had everything: Robots, self-driving car claims, production updates and more. All that might have distracted investors from an importa...

Wall Street: $100 Oil Might Just Be the Beginning

Text size The big question now for oil is where the U.S. dollar goes. Oil is priced in dollars and a strong dollar tends to hurt oil prices. Mario Tama/Getty Images A bet on $100 oil has gone from a l...

How a Russian invasion of Ukraine could trigger market shock waves

The threat of a devastating European ground war hasn’t done much to rattle financial markets so far, but investors still appear likely to snap up traditional safe-haven assets should Russia attack Ukr...

As stock-market turbulence revs up, this ETF theme has drawn 32% of flows in 2022 so far: ‘This isn’t a flash in the pan’

Thank god its Thursday! The Nasdaq Composite posted its first correction since March and equity benchmarks were trying to stage a mini rally, at last check on Thursday. Is this the beginning of the en...

When no stock-market lead is safe, here’s what history shows the Nasdaq’s near-term returns look like (it’s not pretty)

Rallies are getting squashed and no lead appears to be safe for the stock market in recent trade. In fact, the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -1.30%’s intraday reversal on Thursday — when it was up 2.1% at it...

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...

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...

Global stocks advance with U.S. exchanges shut as traders wait for earnings reports

Global stocks rose and U.S. futures were steady Monday, as investors focused on upcoming corporate earnings and rising interest rates with U.S. exchanges shut in observance of the Martin Luther King J...

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 ...

‘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...

Five overlooked tech stocks poised to be the ‘household names of the future,’ according to this money manager

A much-needed market distraction from the churn of inflation worries is getting under way, but it’s not looking like what investors were hoping for as some big bank names are sliding on disappointing ...

‘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...

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 ...

Cathie Wood is expecting a ‘bloodbath’ in this segment of the market: ‘autos are one example of…many disturbances out there in the world order’ 

Cathie Wood, the star fund manager and chief executive of ARK Invest, in a Tuesday monthly market update said that the used car market is where she is expecting possible losses after a surge in values...

Markets Are About to Face Off With the Fed. How to Play It.

Text size The Federal Reserve building in Washington. Samuel Corum/Bloomberg There is always a bull market. The trick is trying to find it. Let the pundits wrestle with Wednesday’s sharp decline in th...

Unprofitable tech trades are off to an ugly 2022. Here are the ETFs to consider as Cathie Wood’s Ark sinks.

Happy Thursday! In mythology, Janus is a god of transitions who is often depicted as a two-faced deity. A mere three sessions into the month of January, and some investors already may be feeling whipl...

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...

Opinion: Adam Aron’s resolution to refinance AMC’s debt might put his love affair with ‘Apes’ at serious risk

Adam Aron wants to be happier, healthier and find a clever way around his own retail shareholders to pay off some serious debt in 2022. In a pair of tweets, Aron told his followers that “If we can, in...

Stock Futures Rise and Tesla Surges as a New Trading Year Begins

Text size A Wall Street sign outside the New York Stock exchange (NYSE) at Wall Street on November 30, 2020 in New York City. ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images Stock futures were rising Monday, suggesting...

Dow futures gain more than 100 points ahead of first trading day of 2022

U.S. stock futures rose Sunday, indicating a positive start for Wall Street on the first trading day of 2022. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, +0.38% were up more than 100 points, or 0.3%, S...

The S&P 500 beat both Dow, and Nasdaq in 2021 by the widest margin in 24 years. Here’s what history says happens in 2022.

While the music played, investors kept dancing, paraphrasing a line from former Citigroup C, -0.07% CEO Chuck Prince. Purchasers of U.S. stocks have danced to the tune of a record rise for the broad-m...