Treasury yields moved mostly higher in a holiday-shortened session Friday, capping a brutal, record-breaking bond-market selloff in 2022. Trading in U.S. fixed-income markets closed an hour early at 2...
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Stocks got wrecked by rate shock in 2022. Here’s what will drive markets in 2023
2022 is over. Take a breath. Investors were understandably eager to ring the bell on the stock market’s worst year since 2008, with the S&P 500 SPX, -0.25% falling 19.4%, the Dow Jones Industrial ...
Stock-market investors face 3 recession scenarios in 2023
With the U.S. stock market on track for its biggest annual decline in over a decade, fears that efforts by the Federal Reserve and other major central banks to bring down a surge in inflation will spa...
Opinion: 11 predictions for money, technology, stocks and crypto for 2023
Here are some 2023 predictions for financial markets, the economy and stocks. I’ve spent the last year and a half being cautious in the wake of the Bubble-Blowing Bull Market that finally ended early ...
U.S. stocks fall on last trading day of 2022, booking monthly losses and worst year since 2008
U.S. stocks ended lower Friday, booking their worst annual losses since 2008, as tax-loss harvesting along with anxieties about the outlook for corporate profits and the U.S. consumer took their toll....
Verizon, Intel and Dow stocks are the biggest ‘dogs’ of the Dow as 2022 ends
The stocks of Verizon Communications Inc. VZ, +0.36%, Intel Corp. INTC, +0.84% and Dow Inc. DOW, -0.52% are the biggest “dogs” of the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.22% as 2022 comes to an end....
‘I dug myself out of the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle’: Should I use my bonus to pay off my mortgage, put it in a savings account or Vanguard?
Dear Quentin, Over the last couple years I dug myself out of the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle, and I am making good money. I never learned about stocks, investing, etc. I do not have a 401(k) at work. M...
Kala Pharmaceuticals stock up 750% in 3 days after upbeat FDA news on PCED treatment
Shares of Kala Pharmaceuticals Inc. KALA, +60.35% have rocketed higher in for three-straight sessions, toward a more-than 8-fold gain, since the biopharmaceutical company announced positive news regar...
Is the U.S. stock market open the day after New Year’s?
Many investors likely can’t wait for a brutal 2022 to end. Stocks are facing their worst annual performance since 2008, while bond returns are the worst in decades or, in some cases, in history. The c...
Li Auto sees record EV deliveries in December
Li Auto Inc. said Friday that it delivered more than 20,000 electric vehicles in December, which is more than 33% above the previous monthly record delivered last month. The China-based EV maker’s ann...
Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are the Hours for the New Year’s Weekend.
From a macro perspective, 2022 didn’t offer investors much to clink champagne glasses over. The past several months have served up inflation and layoffs—plus a recession seems to be on the horizon for...
Opinion: The stock market is range-bound over the short term. Don’t expect that to last long.
The U.S. stock market, as measured by the S&P 500 Index SPX, +1.75%, has struggled this week overall, during what is typically a seasonally bullish period. That is what Yale Hirsch termed “the San...
Dow up over 350 points, stocks rebound after jobless claims data deemed ‘welcome news for the Fed’
U.S. stocks advanced on Thursday afternoon, erasing losses from earlier in the week during the second-to-last trading session of the year. The main indexes built on premarket gains after U.S. weekly j...
ChatGPT is called ‘an iPhone moment in AI,’ but will it make money like the iPhone?
ChatGPT is the latest product of artificial intelligence to take away Silicon Valley’s breath (and venture-capital investments), but it is also yet another AI advancement that has not proved its abili...
Generac stock leads S&P 500 gainers after Janney says buy, citing ‘free option’ on clean energy
Shares of Generac Holdings Inc. surged Wednesday, after Janney analyst Sean Milligan said the sharp selloff this year has provided investors an opportunity to buy into an established brand with a domi...
GE Healthcare will join S&P 500 as soon as it begins trading
GE Healthcare Technologies Inc. will be an S&P 500 stock as soon as it officially exists. General Electric Co. GE, -1.05% expects to spin off its healthcare arm into a separately traded company on...
Dow ends over 350 points lower as investors weigh housing data, 2023 recession concerns
U.S. stocks finished sharply lower on Wednesday, as investors assessed economic data on the housing market amid concerns over rising interest rates and economic growth in 2023. How stock indexes trade...
‘Five days that killed the year’: These trading sessions accounted for 95% of the S&P 500’s losses in 2022
Just five trading sessions accounted for more than 95% of S&P 500 index losses in 2022, according to an analysis by Datatrek co-founder Nicholas Colas in a note published Wednesday, as stocks head...
Kala Pharmaceuticals stock rockets nearly 300% after FDA OKs IND application for PCED treatment
Shares of Kala Pharmaceuticals Inc. KALA, +219.90% quadrupled in very volatile trading Wednesday, after the biopharmaceutical company said the Food and Drug Administration accepted its investigational...
Nio stock drops after Tesla halts production in Shanghai
Shares of Nio Inc. NIO, -7.70% dropped 5.7% in premarket trading Tuesday, to buck the rally in the broader stock markets, as Tesla Inc.’s TSLA, -7.47% extension of its production suspension at its Sh...
Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in more than 4 years
Shares of Tesla Inc. TSLA, -1.76% sank 2.8% in premarket trading Tuesday, after the electric vehicle maker extended the production suspension its Shanghai plant on Saturday as COVID infections surge i...
U.S. stock futures rise ahead of last trading week of 2022
U.S. stock futures rose Monday night, ahead of the final trading week of 2022. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, +0.49% gained nearly 200 points, or 0.6%, as of 9:45 p.m. Eastern. S&P 500...
Asian shares rise in thin holiday trading, with U.S., European markets closed
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares rose Monday in Asia in thin post-Christmas holiday trading, with markets in Hong Kong, Sydney and several other places closed. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index NIK, +0.65% gained 0.6% to...
These 20 stocks were the biggest losers of 2022
Updated with Dec. 30 closing prices. This was a year of reckoning for Big Tech stocks — even those of companies that continued to grow sales by double digits. Below is a list of the 20 stocks in the S...