Topline The second and third-largest bank failures in U.S. history rattled investors’ confidence in bank stocks to the tune of tens of billions of dollars Monday, as the contagion fears from Silicon V...
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Losses Top $165 Billion As Analyst Warns SVB Failure Risks Intense Regulator Scrutiny
Topline The second and third-largest bank failures in U.S. history rattled investors’ confidence in bank stocks to the tune of tens of billions of dollars Monday, as the contagion fears from Silicon V...
SVB collapse means more stock-market volatility: What investors need to know
It’s all eyes on federal banking regulators as investors sift through the aftermath of last week’s market-rattling collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. The name of the game — and the key to a near-term ma...
What’s next for stocks after SVB collapse and as crucial inflation reading looms
Investors are preparing for the release of a U.S. consumer-price index that may show no meaningful letup in inflation, leaving few safe places to hide just as systemic risks may be growing. Coming jus...
How Wind Can Power the Planet and Aid GE Stock
The puffs of air that sway the grass on a summer’s day, the result of the uneven heating of the earth and its rotation, are one key to reducing humanity’s dependence on fossil fuels. Wind could be key...
GE’s Big Plans Are Luring Wall Street Bulls. Target Price Doubled.
Wall Street is feeling more bullish about General Electric stock. Significantly more bullish in one instance. GE (ticker: GE) hosted its 2023 analyst and investor event in Cincinnati, Ohio on Thursday...
Stock market could ‘take it hard’ as expectations grow for a 6% fed funds rate
U.S. stock investors are clearly not too happy with what Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has said in the past two days. And there’s reason to think they’ll get even more dissatisfied in the wee...
Fed may stutter-step at end of interest rate hiking cycle for first time since 1990
U.S. financial markets are taking a more cautious approach as they forecast future Federal Reserve interest-rate decisions after Chair Jerome Powell said policymakers will likely need to raise interes...
Dow Falls Nearly 600 Points As Fed Chair Powell Warns More Severe Rate Hikes On Deck
Topline Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell struck a more hawkish tune than expected during his semiannual report to Congress on Tuesday, saying the central bank will continue to up the temperature on...
Bond-market recession gauge plunges to triple digits below zero on way to fresh four-decade milestone
One of the bond market’s most reliable gauges of impending U.S. recessions plunged further below zero into triple-digit negative territory on Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell point...
Dow Falls 500 Points As Fed Chair Powell Warns More Severe Rate Hikes On Deck
Topline Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell struck a more hawkish tune than expected during his semiannual report to Congress on Tuesday, saying the central bank will continue to up the temperature on...
Rivian, Tesla, and 2 Other EV Makers Are Recalling Vehicles
Monday is looking like recall day for electric-vehicle makers. A few have showed up on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website. Recalls from the large players don’t look serious. Re...
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...
Ignore Wall Street’s gloom. Stocks do better when earnings fall: strategist
Adios to February, which disappointed many stock investors who enjoyed a bullish start to the year. But fears of a bigger meltdown by those swept up in Wall Street gloom may be in vain, says our call ...
Stocks Post Subpar February Amid Fears Of Higher Interest Rates And Weak Earnings
Topline Major stock indexes fell this month as Wall Street digested the latest round of corporate earnings and reacted to growing expectations the Federal Reserve may hike interest rates higher than a...
Stocks Poised For Losing February As Bank Of America Warns Fed Could Raise Rates To Nearly 6%
Topline Major stock indexes fell in February as Wall Street digested the latest round of corporate earnings and reacted to growing expectations the Federal Reserve may hike interest rates higher than ...
This is what Warren Buffett, a self-described ‘so-so investor,’ says is his ‘secret sauce’
Stocks are rebounding on the heels of a rotten week — the worst since December for the S&P 500 SPX, +1.15% and the Nasdaq Composite COMP, +1.39%. And as Wall Street analysts go dark, with talk of ...
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...
Tech Carried the Stock Market. Now They’re Taking It Down With Them.
The prospect of still-higher short- and long-term interest rates produced the worst week for the S&P 500 index in the relatively young year, a drop of 2.67%, and the third straight down week for t...
The Stock Market Doesn’t Look Cheap, Any Way You Slice It
Stock indexes closed another losing week in a downbeat February, as investors continue to debate the path of the economy and monetary policy. It’s a decidedly muddled outlook for the market from a fun...
Any Way You Slice It, Stocks Still Don’t Look Cheap
Text size This past week’s numbers gave investors plenty to fret about. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Stock indexes closed another losing week in a downbeat February, as investors continue to debate the ...
What’s next for stocks as investors realize Fed’s inflation fight won’t end soon
The stock market is ending February on a decidedly wobbly note, raising doubts about the durability of an early 2023 rally. Blame stronger-than-expected economic data and hotter-than-expected inflatio...
Global financial markets have had a rough time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but it is not over yet
A year after Russia invaded Ukraine and set off the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II, global financial markets seem to no longer carry on the lasting shocks on a daily basis, but the fu...
Tech Carried This Upturn, and Now It’s Taking the Market Down With It
The prospect of still-higher short- and long-term interest rates produced the worst week for the S&P 500 index in the relatively young year, a drop of 2.67%, and the third straight down week for t...
3M stock sinks toward 10-year closing low, and longest losing streak in nearly 4 months
Shares of 3M Co. MMM, -1.02% fell 1.6% in afternoon trading Friday, putting them on track for a 10-year closing low, as the maker of Scotch adhesives, Command hooks, N95 masks and Post-it Notes, conti...
The bond market’s worst-case scenario isn’t a Fed rate of 6%. It’s this.
A doomsday scenario for bonds in 2023 wouldn’t be the fed-funds rate reaching 6% by July. A bigger worry would be if U.S. inflation that’s been slow to retreat starts heading higher annually, said Jas...
Fed Wants ‘Substantially’ Lower Inflation Before Easing Interest Rates—And Some Officials Backed More Aggressive Hikes
Topline With inflation continuing to run hotter than expected, the Federal Reserve is showing no signs of backing down on its aggressive monetary policy, according to notes from the Fed’s policy...
GE Stock Hits a New High After an Old Bear Went Into Hibernation
Shares of General Electric hit a new intraday high Monday after an analyst who had been the company’s biggest bear dropped his coverage. J.P. Morgan analyst Stephen Tusa, whose $50 price target on the...