Text size Jeremy Grantham, shown in 2010. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Famed investor Jeremy Grantham says the stock market is in the midst of a “super bubble.” That means prices are even more out of whack ...
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September Could Be Even Worse for Stocks. How to Survive the Downturn.
Text size Traders are hoping the Friday jobs report will be cooler than expected, which would ease the pressure on the Fed to push rates up so quickly. NYSE The stock market could have a tempestuous S...
Jeremy Grantham warns ‘tragedy’ looms as stock ‘superbubble’ may burst
A “superbubble” appears dangerously near its “final act” after the recent rally in U.S. stocks lured some investors back into the market just ahead of potential “tragedy,” according to Jeremy Grantham...
Stock-market summer rally ran out of steam. What history says about September.
A summer U.S. stock-market rally off lows for the year seen in June shuddered to a halt in August, leaving major indexes with monthly losses as investors braced for the start of a traditionally unplea...
Opinion: Don’t forget that the big money in stocks is usually made during down markets
The VanEck Semiconductors ETF SMH, -0.90% is down 12%. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.29% is down 9%, and the S&P 500 SPX, -0.47%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.58% and the Russel...
The stock market typically bottoms before the end of a Fed rate-hike cycle. Here’s how to make that bet pay off.
A lot of money can be made betting on when the Federal Reserve will “pivot” — that is, take its foot at least partially off the rate-hike gas pedal. Yet a lot of money can also be lost, as we saw on A...
Stock Market Today: Dow Futures Jump as Jackson Hole Selloff Eases
Text size Wall Street saw its worst day in months last Friday. Angels Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Stocks were set to snap a two-day losing streak ignited by hawkish comments from Federal Reserve Chairm...
How much do I need to retire? 11 big retirement questions answered
I spend a significant amount of time reading the viewpoints of people who are planning for retirement or who are already retired. My frequent reaction: What are they thinking? When I review retiremen...
These money and investing tips can help you roll with the Fed’s inflation-fighting punches
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U.S. Stocks Poised Fall on Monday
Stocks are poised to open lower on Wall Street on Monday. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images Text size U.S. stocks are poised to open lower on Monday as investors look toward Friday’s report on August jobs...
U.S. stock futures sink following Friday’s Wall Street rout
U.S. stock-index futures plunged Sunday, after Wall Street sank Friday following hawkish comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that the fight against stubborn inflation would continue, ...
Bitcoin Has Stumbled. That’s Not a Good Sign for Stocks.
Text size Bitcoin’s drop isn’t much of a surprise. Interest rates have risen in the past few weeks as markets worry that the Federal Reserve would keep lifting rates to combat high inflation. Risk ass...
Opinion: The fundamentals of the stock market have improved markedly, but few investors have noticed
You’ll know that the bear market in stocks is nearing an end when investors remind anyone who’ll listen that equities are fairly or even undervalued. We’re not there yet. When bull market sentiment is...
How retirees can survive a bear market
Wait until the VIX gets a lot lower before putting any sideline cash back to work in the stock market. That’s the implication of a 2019 academic study in the Journal of Financial Economics. Entitled “...
Investors Ramp Up Bets Against Stock Market as Summer Rally Fizzles
Investors are stepping up bets on a market downturn, a sign of waning sentiment that analysts say could presage a return to the volatile trading of the first half of 2022. Net short positions against ...
Fed chief Powell ‘did what he needed to do’ in Jackson Hole, Larry Summers says
“ ‘The Fed is positioned as well as it can be — given the credibility losses and mistakes that there have been — with these remarks to manage things going forward.’ ” — Larry Summers Former U.S. Treas...
Fed’s Powell sparked a 1,000-point rout in the Dow. Here’s what investors should do next.
Now might be the time to consider hiding out in short-dated Treasurys or corporate bonds and other defensive parts of the stock market. On Friday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell talked of a wi...
Shrinking the Fed’s balance sheet sheet is not likely to be a benign process, new Jackson Hole study warns
“If the past repeats, the shrinking of the central bank’s balance sheet is not likely to be an entirely benign process and will require careful monitoring of the banking sector’s on-and off-balance sh...
These dividend stocks can protect you as the Federal Reserve slows the economy
With Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell set to deliver an important speech Friday, investors may finally begin to take him at his word: The central bank is going to maintain a hawkish stance to co...
Here are 5 reasons why energy stocks look like a buy despite rising 74% in a year
Stocks in the S&P 500’s energy sector still have plenty of upside despite their 74% surge in the past 12 months, according to Jeff Buchbinder, chief equity strategist at LPL Financial. The strong ...
Stocks in September Have Often Struggled. The Good News: The Selloff May Have Already Begun.
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size The stock market’s worst month—September—will soon be upon us. The S&P 500 index has averaged a 1% loss in September dating back to 1928, says Dow Jones Marke...
The Fed isn’t pivoting. Why were stock investors the last to know?
After Friday’s brutal session for stocks, it appears equities were the last asset class to accept the notion that the Federal Reserve likely won’t be pivoting to a less aggressive monetary policy stan...
Bank of America draws mixed reviews for zero-down-payment mortgages aimed at boosting Black and Hispanic home ownership
Bank of America Corp. is drawing a mixed reaction in social media to a zero-down-payment mortgage program aimed at bringing first-time home ownership within closer reach of more African American and H...