Citigroup analysts have cut their S&P 500 target for this year by 500 points to 4,200, after stubbornly high inflation spurred the Federal Reserve to aggressively raise interest rates. “Fed hawkis...
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Wall Street bear who called stock-market selloff sees S&P 500 up another 7% before turning lower
Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson is one of Wall Street’s most vocal bears. But even he thinks this bear-market rally has more room to run. After the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.20%, S&P 500 ...
Cruise Lines Can’t Duck Their Debt
Cruise ships, it seems, are like ducks—elegant and effortless above the water, fighting like crazy to stay afloat beneath. On the surface, the industry is finally steaming ahead after over a year at b...
How retirees should navigate this bear market
Here’s how best to play the market for the rest of 2022: Don’t look. I offer this advice not because I believe the bear market will continue—though of course it could. I would offer the same advice if...
Dow Jumps More Than 800 Points as Fears of Interest-Rate Hikes Subside
Stocks rallied on Friday after fresh economic data tempered investors’ expectations of steep Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes, as major market indexes notched their first weekly gains after three c...
Intel wins latest race in chip uses for the cloud, says KeyBanc Capital Markets
Chip giant Intel Corp. is leading growth in cloud technology, according to new research from KeyBanc Capital Markets. Intel Corp. INTC, +3.21% is the winner in KeyBanc’s latest monthly data tracking s...
The stock market’s return will be minus 3.3% a year over the next decade, says this ‘single greatest predictor’
This month we’ve received both good and bad news from the “single greatest predictor of future stock market returns.” I’m referring to the indicator, first proposed by the Philosophical Economics blog...
These dividend stocks yield at least 5% and have plenty of room to raise payouts
This year’s stock price declines make for an increasing number of stocks with high dividend yields of at least 5%. Below is a screen that highlights 29 that appear to be able to raise their payouts co...
The U.S. housing market is teetering on recession. Will the economy soon follow?
The last time the housing market suffered a major meltdown in 2006, it took the entire U.S. economy with it. But history never follows the exact same script twice. The weakening housing market is undo...
This dividend fund is down 3% vs. S&P’s 20% drop. Here are its top stock picks
By now even the most ardent tech and growth-stock enthusiasts realize the bull market is over. John Kornitzer’s approach to selecting high-quality stocks for the Buffalo Flexible Income Fund is one th...
U.S. stock futures drop as Powell testimony looms, recession worries return to the spotlight
Recession worries were back in the spotlight for Wall Street on Wednesday, with equity futures and oil prices dropping, as investors looked ahead to Congressional testimony from Federal Reserve Chairm...
The stock market’s big Tuesday bounce is likely to fizzle out: Capital Economics
It was Turnaround Tuesday for the stock market as investors returned from a three-day weekend following the S&P 500’s worst weekly tumble since 2020. Skeptics see a bear-market bounce that’s likel...
S&P 500 must fall another 15%-20% to price in recession, says Mike Wilson at Morgan Stanley
The price is not right. That’s the verdict from strategists at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, who each warned as a new week kicked off that the stock market wasn’t fully pricing in a recession. And...
Tesla Stock Is Jumping Because Elon Musk Says Competition Doesn’t Matter
Text size Tesla stock fell when the company raised the prices on its website earlier this month. Chris Delmas / AFP via Getty Images Tesla stock is starting a new week on solid footing, at least in pa...
Elon Musk joins the growing chorus fearing a U.S. recession. But there are stocks for that.
Look out above, the dip buyers are back in town. Stocks are soaring — for now — as Wall Street returns from a long holiday weekend, with Fed Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifying in front of Congress...
Energy and these 2 other sectors led the S&P 500. Now they’ve tanked. Here’s why that could be good for the stock market.
An unwind of the stock market’s best performing sectors had to happen eventually. And that may be just what this bear market ordered, according to Jonathan Krinsky, chief market technician at BTIG. Si...
Is the U.S. stock market closed today? What investors need to know on Juneteenth.
U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed Monday, June 20, in observance of the Juneteenth holiday, which commemorates the end of slavery in America. Officially known as the Juneteenth National Indep...
Stocks Historically Don’t Bottom Out Until the Fed Eases
Another week of whipsaw stock trading has many investors wondering how much farther markets will fall. Investors have often blamed the Federal Reserve for market routs. It turns out the Fed has often ...
Stocks are still too expensive and rising rates may shock financial system, Seth Klarman warns
Investment legend Seth Klarman went back to his roots at the Harvard Business School to declare that the stock market is still too pricey even with its slide this year. “You’ve got a stock market that...
Asian markets mostly fall ahead of U.S. holiday
TOKYO (AP) — Asian markets were mostly lower in cautious trading Monday ahead of a federal holiday in the U.S. Worries over inflation and risks of a global recession from central bank efforts to bring...
Is the Stock Market Closed Today? Here Are the Hours for Juneteenth.
June 19, or Juneteenth, marks the end of slavery in the U.S. The U.S. designated the day a federal holiday in 2021. Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Text size The Juneteenth holiday wee...
Analysts see lowest grades for Bank of America and JPMorgan in Fed’s stress test
Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. emerged with the lowest marks among the overall passing grade for banks in the Fed’s annual stress test, analysts at Jefferies and Citigroup said Fri...