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Don’t panic. How to control emotions during stock market volatility
Peopleimages | Istock | Getty Images The ups and downs of the stock market may have you tempted to make changes to your portfolio. Yet time and again experts will tell you to never let emotions drive ...
Stock Market Today: Overseas Stocks Fall as Russia-Ukraine Tensions Simmer
Text size Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden have agreed in principle to a summit in Europe. AFP via Getty Images Global stocks fell on Monday as tensions remained high over the Russian military buildup on ...
How Stocks Perform Just Before and After a Drastic Fed Interest-Rate Increase
Text size Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve. Graeme Jennings / POOL/AFP via Getty Images The Federal Reserve could implement two interest-rate increases in one fell swoop next month. The sto...
Bitcoin Falls to Below $40,000 as Wall Street in ‘Full De-Risking Mode’
Text size Dreamstime.com Bitcoin fell below $40,000 Friday on renewed worries of an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine and the prospect of higher U.S. interest rates this year. Bitcoin, the world’s...
What Will Stocks Do if War—or Peace—Erupts in Ukraine?
Text size A Ukrainian guard at a checkpoint on the border with Russia. There could be a financial toll, as well as a heavy human one, if the Kremlin launches an invasion. Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Ukrinf...
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 ...
QuantumScape Stock Drops After Earnings. It’s Hard to Say Why.
Text size QuantumScape met its 2021 goals and is making progress in commercializing its battery technology. Courtesy QuantumScape Stock in electric vehicle battery technology provider QuantumScape is ...
QuantumScape Stock Is Down After Reporting Earnings. It’s Hard to Say Why.
Text size A QuantumScape lab. Courtesy QuantumScape Stock in electric vehicle battery technology provider QuantumScape is dropping after the company reported fourth quarter results Wednesday evening. ...
Virgin Galactic Stock Surges. Reservations for Space Will Open Wednesday.
Text size Reservations for Virgin’s space tourist flights will open Wednesday. Courtesy Virgin Galactic Space tourism pioneer Virgin Galactic is getting closer to commercial operations. The comp...
Nvidia’s AI Innovation Should Push Stock Higher: Analysts
Text size Chip maker Nvidia has invested heavily in artificial intelligence. Dreamstime Nvidia has invested heavily in artificial intelligence—in cash and culture—and those expenditures should drive u...
5 things to know before the stock market opens Monday, February 14
Here are the most important news, trends and analysis that investors need to start their trading day: 1. Futures steady after comments from Russia’s top diplomat Traders on the floor of the NYSE...
George Soros Buys a Big Rivian Stake
Text size Soros Fund Management’s stake was worth about $2.1 billion at the end of December. Courtesy Rivian George Soros’ family investment office, Soros Fund Management, revealed a new stake i...
GE’s Annual Report Is Shorter Again. Things Are Changing.
Text size General Electric plans to break itself into three parts. Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images General Electric ‘s latest annual report is more evidence that the company is shaking itself up....
What a Russian invasion of Ukraine would mean for markets as White House warns attack could come ‘any day now’
Investors on Friday got a taste of the sort of market shock that could come if Russia invades Ukraine. The spark came as Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, warned Friday afterno...
Ford Takes More Capacity Offline Because of Trucker Blockade in Canada
Text size Demonstrators against Covid-19 vaccine mandates block the roadway at the Ambassador Bridge border crossing, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada on Feb. 9. Geoff Robins / AFP via Getty Images Ford Mo...
Tesla Finally Gets a Mention as Biden Talks Up Electric Vehicles
Text size President Joe Biden spoke in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images President Joe Biden just publicly said the T-word— Tesla —seeming to extend an olive branch to ...
DuPont Beat Earnings Expectations and Announced a Dividend Boost
Text size DuPont shares were up 5.6% in recent trading. Mark Makela/Getty Images Materials giant DuPont beat Wall Street’s fourth-quarter earnings estimates and raised its quarterly dividend. But its ...
Buy the dip? Why the stock market’s bounce off January lows may prove premature
A big stock-market bounce after an ugly January might reflect misplaced confidence in a previously tried-and-true trading strategy, a Wall Street analyst warned on Monday. “After a tough markdown of s...
What the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine means for markets
Fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are keeping investors on edge. President Joe Biden on Friday said he believed Russian leader Vladimir Putin had made up his mind to invade in coming days but tha...