Still a bear market: S&P 500 slump signals stocks never reached ‘escape velocity’

The S&P 500’s close below 3,900 on Thursday signaled the stock market’s rally off the October lows was merely a “tactical bounce,” according to a top Wall Street chart watcher. “The market’s 20-da...

The Fed Is Making a Mistake—and the Stock Market Will Pay the Price

We all make mistakes—but the Federal Reserve may be making a bigger one than most. That could mean another difficult year for the stock market in 2023. Those concerns were front and center this past w...

Stocks could face another explosion of volatility Friday as $4 trillion of options expire in ‘quadruple witching’

Stocks have been on a wild ride this week, and conditions could still get weirder as traders brace for “quadruple witching” on Friday, when a flurry of equity options and futures contracts expire. In ...

Tesla Stock Isn’t Out of the Woods Yet. There Are Too Many EVs.

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Stocks are closing out a dismal 2022 as the Fed fights inflation. Here’s what history says comes next.

Stock-market investors have plenty of reasons to feel gloomy heading into 2023: Inflation is still high, the housing market is sputtering and the Federal Reserve just raised interest rates by another ...

Lucid Secures EV Batteries, But the Stock Falls Anyway

Electric vehicle start-up Lucid is securing electric-vehicle batteries ahead of its product line expansion. The stock isn’t getting any benefit though. Tesla might be to blame. On Tuesday, Lucid (tick...

Opinion: Opinion: The Fed should pause rate hikes since inflation has slowed — it won’t

The Federal Reserve should declare an immediate cease fire in its war against inflation and hold its benchmark interest rate steady instead of raising the federal funds by a half percentage point to a...

Tesla Stock Fell Again. Here’s Where It Could Be Headed Next.

Tesla stock is down again, and investors once more are pointing fingers at Twitter. Fixing Twitter might not be enough to fix shares of the electric-vehicle giant, though. Technical stock market analy...

GE HealthCare Is Going Independent. This Is Where the Stock Should Trade.

Text size GE HealthCare should generate about $3.3 billion in Ebitda for all of 2022. Kamil Krzaczynski/Getty Images To start 2023, investors will have a choice to invest in a brand new $18 billion co...

CPI days have been among the most volatile for stocks this year. Here’s what to expect ahead of Tuesday’s report

Many investors are hoping that beaten down U.S. stocks will finish 2022 with a “Santa Claus rally” after the S&P 500 logged back-to-back monthly gains for the first time in more than a year in Oct...

Toyota Changing EV Strategy in Bid to Catch Tesla: Report. It’s Way Behind.

Toyota Motor has been slow to develop all-battery electric models. Now it wants to pick up the pace, as it tries to keep pace with Tesla and other EV makers, and suppliers will be key to its efforts. ...

The Block CEO showed ‘serious lack of judgment’ in taking loans from FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried and not disclosing them

The fallout from the implosion of FTX continues, with crypto publication The Block on Friday announcing that Michael McCaffrey has stepped down as its chief executive officer after failing to disclose...

Opinion: Opinion: Household wealth falls $13.5 trillion, second worst drop on record

American households lost about $6.8 trillion in wealth over the first three quarters of 2022 as the stock market SPX, -0.73%   DJIA, -0.90%   COMP, -0.70% shed more than 25% of its value, the Federal ...

Why stock-market investors shouldn’t count on a ‘Santa Claus’ rally this year

Investors, like kids on Christmas Eve, have come to expect Santa Claus will get down the chimney, march over to Wall Street and deliver the rewarding gift of a stock-market rally. This year, however, ...

Boeing Retires the 747, and the Age of Jumbo Jets

The Boeing 747 has retired. The jets still fly—but new ones won’t be built. On Tuesday, the last 747 rolled off an Everett, Wash. assembly line. This is no surprise. CEO Dave Calhoun said in July 2020...

Dow on verge of a ‘golden cross,’ even as BlackRock predicts historic recession

Despite worries about inflation and an impending recession, there is at least one sign that some bullish market technical analysts might latch onto. An upbeat golden cross appears to be forming in the...

The Stock Market Had a Terrible Week—and Now the Fed Meeting Is on Tap

Things tend to slow down for the holidays. The stock market isn’t there yet. With Christmas just a couple of weeks away, it’s easy to look ahead to candy canes, caroling, and presents under the tree, ...

Financial markets are flashing a warning that a recession is imminent: here’s what it means for stocks

Across markets, familiar trading patterns for stocks, bonds and commodities that have held for months are starting to unravel as financial markets grapple with expectations that the U.S. economy will ...

Why Tesla Stock’s Ceiling Is Now $200. Where the Floor Might Be.

Tesla hasn’t had a lot of important fundamental news recently, which leaves the stock at the mercy of its chart. And the chart doesn’t look very good. Until something fundamental changes, Tesla (ticke...

Intel begins layoffs and offers unpaid leave to manufacturing workers

The layoffs and cost-cutting that Intel Corp. executives recently warned about have begun in California, with a couple of hundred employees set to lose their jobs next month, and manufacturing employe...

4 Things to Know About Textron’s Helicopter That Won $80 Billion Army Contract

Textron stock soared Tuesday after the defense company won a contract worth up to $80 billion to build a new helicopter for the Army. Word of the award came late Monday. The Army is turning to Textron...

Why Monday’s selloff in the stock market could be the start of the next leg lower

Monday’s punishing selloff could be the beginning of the next leg lower for stocks as a sense of complacency has taken hold in markets following a stellar October and November, several strategists tol...

S&P 500, Nasdaq post worst day in month after strong data fuels worry about Fed rate hikes

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indexes recorded their worst day in almost a month on Monday, after a hotter-than-expected U.S. services-sector reading fueled concerns that the Federal Reserve ma...

The bear market rally is running out of stream, and it is time to take profits, says Morgan Stanley’s Wilson

The stock market’s bounce off the October lows is running out of room, and it is time to take profits, according to Morgan Stanley’s Michael Wilson. The chief equity strategist who correctly predicted...

This long-time bear warns of a ‘trapdoor’ situation looming for the stock market.

Uncertainty is lingering for investors following a recent mixed batch of data — softer-than-expected inflation, stronger-than-anticipated jobs and wages — as we kick off the third week before Christma...

Stocks Rise on Cooling Inflation and Fed Moderation. That Doesn’t Mean the Bear Market Is Over.

Christmas came early this year for the stock market. Is there a Grinch waiting to ruin it? It was a week of surprises both good—Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell essentially confirming a smaller ...

Stocks end mixed, but book weekly gains as strong jobs data challenges Fed to push interest rates higher

U.S. stocks ended mostly lower Friday on signs that the U.S. labor market remained robust in November despite the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hikes. Data released by the Labor Department showed th...

BYD Can Take Lead in EV Deliveries. Tesla May Pass Toyota on Operating Profit.

China’s BYD wants to challenge Tesla for its crown as the biggest EV maker. It just might succeed, but Tesla could snag a more important prize held by Toyota Motor. On Friday, BYD (ticker: 1211. Hong ...

BofA is selling U.S. equities rally on worries that unemployment will be ‘shocking’ in 2023

Strategists at BofA Global Research said it is time to sell the U.S. stock market rally ahead of a potential surge in the unemployment rate next year.  “Bears (like us) worry unemployment in 2023 will...

Dow ends nearly 200 points lower as investors weigh ISM manufacturing and inflation data, await jobs report

U.S. stocks finished a choppy session mostly lower on Thursday after the ISM manufacturing index showed American factory activities contracted to a 30-month low in November. Stocks had opened mostly h...

ChargePoint Results Fall Short. Guidance Is Saving the Stock.

Shares of EV charging company ChargePoint have been caught in the sell off that’s hammered small-capitalization stocks that don’t produce earnings or generate free cash flow, yet. Investors hoped that...

This trader sees a 43% drop for the S&P 500 and says to take shelter in these ETFs instead.

A day after the Dow DJIA, -0.11% climbed out of bear territory on hopeful comments by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, stocks look ready to rethink on that optimsim, even after fresh inflation data showed ...