Topline The stock market moved higher on Tuesday in an attempt to bounce back after six consecutive weeks of heavy losses, as investors digested the latest comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome P...
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Michael ‘Big Short’ Burry Shorts Apple
Infamous investor Michael Burry of “The Big Short” has bet against Apple ( (AAPL) – Get Apple Inc. Report), according to a SEC filing. During the first quarter, Burry, a hedge fund i...
Stocks Keep Tanking As Growing Number Of Wall Street Experts Warn About Rising Recession Risks
Topline With the stock market falling for the last six weeks in a row amid growing concerns about an economic slowdown and the Federal Reserve raising interest rates to combat inflation, an increasing...
Four Reasons Airfares Are Rising, And Why Travelers May Not Mind
The price of airline tickets has risen significantly year over year, yet demand remains high. This … [+] is a unique opportunity for U.S airlines to return to profitability. getty Published airl...
Fed Hawkishness May Be Near Its Peak, Even if Inflation Isn’t
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, shown earlier this month at his postmeeting press conference, says the price pressures need to be reined in even at the expense of economic pain. But how far is he willing ...
Biden ‘Endorsed’ Fed ‘Shock Therapy’—Why The $1 Trillion Bitcoin, Ethereum And Crypto Price Crash Could Be Just Getting Started
Bitcoin BTC and cryptocurrency prices have been hit by an almighty sell-off this month, wiping around $1 trillion from the crypto market since early April—though Elon Musk surprised some by signaling ...
S&P 500 Hits New 2022 Low As ‘Staggering’ Market Losses Continue
Topline Markets fell despite a rebound late in the session on Thursday, continuing one of the worst starts to a year in history as mounting losses dragged the benchmark S&P 500 index to a new low ...
EURUSD And USDJPY Can Reverse Despite An Aggressive Fed
The US Dollar forged an incredible advance heading into the Federal Reserve’s May announcement. The central bank said it would dramatically escalate its monetary policy regime by hiking its benchmark ...
Wall Street Thinks These Stocks—Including McDonald’s, Dollar General And Visa—Can Weather Market Volatility
Topline Markets are so far having one of their worst years in history as investors are whipsawed by rising inflation, tighter monetary policy from the Federal Reserve and Russia’s war against Ukraine,...
Dow Falls 300 Points As Red-Hot Inflation Report And Sinking Tech Stocks Drag Markets Lower
Topline The stock finished lower yet again on Wednesday after consumer prices came in higher than expected, and although experts think inflation may have peaked, the Federal Reserve may still need to ...
Stocks Rebound After Inflation Moderates Slightly, Giving Investors Hope That Prices May Have Peaked
Topline The stock market rallied on Wednesday even after consumer prices came in higher than expected, and although experts think inflation may have peaked, the Federal Reserve may still need to raise...
Savers Regain Respect And Income
Bankers are welcoming savers and raising interest rates on deposits getty Applaud the Federal Reserve and Wall Street. Their new actions are restoring a forgotten powerhouse of capitalism: Savers. The...
Is Red-Hot Inflation Cooling Off? 3 Signs That Show It Is.
Text size Expectations for inflation are critical to how fast the Fed raises interest rates. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Good news about inflation is bubbling up even as the Federal Reserve...
3 Signs Red-Hot Inflation Is Cooling Off
Text size Expectations for inflation are critical to how fast the Fed raises interest rates. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Good news about inflation is bubbling up even as the Federal Reserve...
Contra Simpleton Pundits, ‘the Fed’ Didn’t Cause the Stock-Market Correction
Every stock-market rally is top heavy. In other words, every stock-market rally is led upwards by the very few. The 80/20 Pareto Principle that defines so much of life is 95/5 when it comes to equitie...
Rates Are Rising and Stocks Are Taking a Beating. It Won’t End Soon.
Text size The market reacted violently to the Federal Open Market Committee, which hiked the federal-funds rate target by half a percentage point for only the second time this century. Spencer Platt/G...
The Stock Market Looks Like a Bear. How to Avoid Getting Eaten.
It could be very difficult for Powell and the Fed to tame inflation without causing an economic slowdown. Photo illustration by Barron’s staff; (reference) Dreamstime (5) Text size Like Winnie t...
Stocks Fall For Fifth Straight Week As Experts Warn Of More Selloffs Ahead
Topline Stocks finished lower on Friday, adding to recent losses despite stronger-than-expected jobs data, as investors continue to remain nervous about a slowdown in economic growth and experts warn ...
Stocks Keep Falling After Major Sell-Off As Bloodbath Continues Despite Strong Jobs Data
Topline Stocks moved sharply lower on Friday, adding to recent losses despite stronger-than-expected jobs data, as investors continue to remain nervous about a slowdown in economic growth and experts ...
Technicals Point To More Stock Market Carnage Ahead
The S&P 500 is down 13% this year, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq is already in bear market territory. YCharts The S&P 500 index cratered 3.6% Thursday, erasing Wednesday afternoon’s gains follow...
The Stock Market Panic Is Here
A trader looks on as stocks plummet (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP) AFP via Getty Images Can you feel it? “Risk investing” just lost its glamour. Coming onstage is “safety first,...
Dow Plunges 1,100 Points, Tech Shares Crater As Stocks Erase Gains From Post-Fed Rally
Topline The stock market moved sharply lower on Thursday, reversing all of its gains from the previous session when the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a half-percentage point, as volatility ...
Don’t Fight The Fed: Sell These Stocks Now
Funny man is getting punch in face with fist. getty In bull markets, we buy the dips. In bear markets, we sell the rips. Starting in spring 2020 and through 2021, we dividend investors stayed in “buy ...
Dow Jumps 900 Points After Federal Reserve Hikes Interest Rates By Half-Percentage Point
Topline The stock market surged higher on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 0.5% in a move widely-anticipated by investors, as the central bank continues on its path of aggr...
Fed Triggers Stark $10,000 Bitcoin Crash Warning
Bitcoin BTC and cryptocurrency prices have been stuck in a holding pattern ahead of the Federal Reserve’s closely-watched Wednesday interest rate decision that could come with a $9 trillion bomb...
Dow Futures Rise After April’s Sharp Selloff as Wall Street Looks to the Fed
Text size Photo credit: NYSE Stock futures traded modestly higher Monday as investors tried to shake off April’s broad selloff ahead of an expected aggressive move by the Federal Reserve to tame infla...
Earnings Season Has Been Just One More Reason to Sell Stocks
Text size Apple dropped 3.7% on Friday after its outlook disappointed. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg The only takeaway to be drawn from a volatile week of earnings reports was that we shouldn’t get our hopes ...
There Could Be More Downside Ahead for the Stock Market
It could be very difficult for Powell and the Fed to tame inflation without causing an economic slowdown. Photo illustration by Barron’s staff; (reference) Dreamstime (5) Text size Like Winnie t...