Strap in! It could be a bumpy ride this year. Financial markets are off to a woeful start for the bulls in 2022. Blame surging inflation, an out-of-step Federal Reserve, or a nagging pandemic. But wha...
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The Nasdaq Composite just logged its 66th correction since 1971—here’s what history says happens next in the stock market
The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -1.15% on Wednesday booked its first close in correction territory since March with a rapid surge in Treasury yields, and expectations for interest-rate increases from...
The 60/40 portfolio ‘is in danger’ as Federal Reserve gears up for a rate-hike cycle in coming months
The traditional portfolio mix of 60% stocks and 40% bonds, historically seen as the safest allocation for investors of moderate-risk tolerance, “is in danger” as the Federal Reserve gears up for its f...
Here’s what history says about the Nasdaq Composite’s near-term returns after closing below its 200-day moving average
The Nasdaq Composite Index notched its first close below a closely watched, long-term trend line since April of 2020, and investors may be wondering how the benchmark tends to perform in the near to i...
Brace for a volatile 2022, but cling to this tech stalwart when the storm comes, says investment adviser
The pain is piling up for equity investors after the long U.S. holiday weekend, with bond yields at levels not seen since early 2020, and oil prices tapping 2014 highs. The pace of Federal Reserve mon...
Is the stock market open today? Here are the trading hours on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Stock and bond markets in the U.S. will be closed Monday, January 17 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, offering traders a rest after a volatile start to the year. The Securities Industry a...
Global stocks advance with U.S. exchanges shut as traders wait for earnings reports
Global stocks rose and U.S. futures were steady Monday, as investors focused on upcoming corporate earnings and rising interest rates with U.S. exchanges shut in observance of the Martin Luther King J...
Stock Market Today: Global Shares Rise as U.S. Markets Pause for M.L.K. Jr. Day
Text size Wall Street trading will return in force Tuesday. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Global stocks moved slightly Monday in what is expected to be a quiet trading session, with U.S. markets c...
Is the Stock Market Open Today? These Are the Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2022 Hours.
Text size Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Investors looking for a brief respite from two weeks of volatile trading on Wall Street may get one on Mo...
Fed needs to ‘shock and awe’ the market with one big rate hike, Bill Ackman says
Billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman said the Federal Reserve needs to deliver old-fashioned “shock and awe” to financial markets by delivering a much larger onetime increase to benchmark intere...
Roaring U.S. housing market may cool, keep climbing as Fed ends emergency support
U.S. home prices roared almost 20% higher in the past year, giving families who own properties a major boost to their finances during the pandemic. But Wall Street, a key source of home mortgage finan...
Get ready for the climb. Here’s what history says about stock-market returns during Fed rate-hike cycles.
Bond yields are rising again so far in 2022. The U.S. stock market seems vulnerable to a bona fide correction. But what can you really tell from a mere two weeks into a new year? Not much and quite a ...
Why a falling dollar signals ‘markets are in wonderland’ over inflation and Fed
The U.S. dollar is offering up an early 2022 head scratcher: Why does the currency keep falling even as traders aggressively pencil in as many as four interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve th...
‘We absolutely believe Ether’ surpassing bitcoin’s total market value ‘can happen this year,’ says ETF expert: ‘The bull case is an Etherum ETF in 2022’
Hello there! The Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ is up over 2% so far this week. That is not where many investors would have bet that the popular exchange-traded fund would be trading now based on the wild acti...
Value Gets Its Moment. Consider These Stocks and ETFs.
Buy the dip, wrote J.P. Morgan’s strategists early this past week. As calls to courage go, it wasn’t exactly Churchill during the Blitz. The dip in this case was a 2% decline, year to date, in the S&a...
The No. 1 thing that can improve the retirement security of older workers
Ready for today’s retirement investing pop quiz? What’s the single most consequential thing you can do to improve your chances of not running out of money in retirement? I’ll try answering this questi...
Here’s what a Russian invasion of Ukraine would mean for markets
Fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are on the rise, prompting analysts and traders to weigh the potential financial-market shock waves. “If Russia invades Ukraine, the trade is buy TY,” wrote Bren...
Five overlooked tech stocks poised to be the ‘household names of the future,’ according to this money manager
A much-needed market distraction from the churn of inflation worries is getting under way, but it’s not looking like what investors were hoping for as some big bank names are sliding on disappointing ...
‘There’s no way the stock market goes up this year — it probably goes down pretty aggressively,’ says hedge-fund honcho Kyle Bass
Don’t expect stock-market gains in 2022 if the Federal Reserve sticks to its guns on rate hikes and tightening overall financial conditions, says Kyle Bass, founder and chief investment officer of Hay...
Opinion: Nasdaq near a 10% correction isn’t the sell signal you probably think it is
There’s nothing magical about a stock index hitting the 10% decline that constitutes what Wall Street considers to be a correction. So we need to stop treating this 10% mark as meaningful. It isn’t. T...
Opinion: Four reasons why value stocks are poised to outperform growth in 2022 — and 14 stocks to consider
Investing is all about being in tune with the trends. Here’s one to be aware of for 2022: Value stocks will most likely beat their growth counterparts. The trend is already under way. Consider: * The ...
Fed has to be ‘far more aggressive…than the Street thinks,’ says academic who called Dow 20,000: ‘This is too much money chasing too few goods’
Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, on Wednesday sounded sanguine about the equity market, even as he conceded that inflation is likely ...
Opinion: Citadel’s $1.15 billion cash infusion isn’t a bailout but the final test of Ken Griffin’s ‘Death Star’
When you add more than a billion dollars’ worth of liquidity to a market maker that already executed more than one of every four trades in the U.S. markets on a daily basis, while simultaneously givin...
These 14 bank stocks are in the best position to benefit from rising interest rates
What would you say if you were told about a company whose stock was trading much lower to expected earnings per share than the S&P 500 Index? At the same time, it’s also expected to increase EPS n...
Cathie Wood is expecting a ‘bloodbath’ in this segment of the market: ‘autos are one example of…many disturbances out there in the world order’
Cathie Wood, the star fund manager and chief executive of ARK Invest, in a Tuesday monthly market update said that the used car market is where she is expecting possible losses after a surge in values...
Expect more than 4 rate increases in 2022, and a lot of market volatility, says JPMorgan’s Dimon: ‘If we’re lucky’ the Fed can engineer a “soft landing.”‘
JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM, +0.10% CEO Jamie Dimon said the consumer remains in great shape in 2022 but also said volatility could be elevated in financial markets as the Federal Reserve aims to nav...
These 3 ETFs let you play the hot semiconductor sector, where Nvidia, Micron, AMD and others are growing sales rapidly
Semiconductor stocks may continue to be an excellent area of the market for investors, even though the prospect of a long period of rising interest rates has put pressure on some high-flying technolog...