Yuan-ruble trading explodes 1,000% in latest challenge to U.S. dollar’s dominance

The Russian ruble has rebounded sharply off the lows seen after the invasion of Ukraine, although there remains a wide margin between prices quoted in Moscow and those quoted offshore. But in the late...

Hot stocks may bring an initial thrill, but they’ll break your heart

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Brace for another selloff if U.S. stocks reach this technical ‘danger zone’

“Top Gun: Maverick” is taking American cinemas by storm, so it’s only right that Wall Street strategists would work some references to the classic 1980s franchise into their client research which is o...

Salesforce earnings expected to serve as business-spending bellwether amid economic uncertainty

Salesforce Inc. is expected to have a much more subdued earnings report in the coming week as fear of a recession and inflation, as well as COVID shutdowns in China and the war in Ukraine, are prompti...

Micron, Netflix, and 5 Other Beaten-Up Tech Stocks That Could Be Bargains

Text size Meta Platforms’ advertising business has faced challenges from TikTok and Apple’s privacy changes. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg This year has been brutal for U.S. stocks, but that...

The Stock Market Is on Pace to End Lower in May. It Could Be a Good Thing.

Text size Part of the market weakness could have been related to the adage “sell in May and go away.” Spencer Platt/Getty Images The stock market is down for May. If it ends the month in the red, hist...

Here’s the asset investors want if inflation stays high, says Deutsche Bank. And crypto isn’t even ‘on the radar’

Home is where the heart is, and the money, if inflationary trends don’t cool. That’s according to the latest Deutsche Bank survey of investors, who say that property will be their most preferred buy-a...

Munis Have Slid This Year as Investors Bail Out. They May Be a Bargain Right Now

Municipal bonds have taken a beating this year as investors retreat amid rising interest rates. The market, however, could be poised for a comeback thanks to unusually attractive relative yields and s...

U.S. stock futures rise in holiday trade as Shanghai sets reopening plans

U.S. stock futures rose on Monday in light holiday volume, helped by plans from the world’s number-two economy to lift some restrictions as it fights COVID more aggressively than the rest of the world...

Brent crude hits two-month high as China lifts COVID restrictions. Analyst predicts $124/barrel is next.

Brent crude surged to levels not seen in two months on Monday, as easing COVID restrictions in China’s biggest cities drove fresh hopes for demand. U.S. markets will be closed on Monday in observance ...

Market Slide Forces Rookie Traders to Grow Up Fast

Lucas Daignault likes to glance at his E*Trade account before school or after his shifts at the supermarket. More days than not lately, it shows a sea of red. Mr. Daignault, who just turned 18 years o...

Stock Market Today: Global Stocks, U.S. Futures Move Higher on Memorial Day

Text size Stock and bond trading will resume on Wall Street on Tuesday after Memorial Day. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images Global stocks and U.S. futures rose on Monday amid a quiet day for markets due ...

War surges Norway’s oil, gas profit. Now, it’s urged to help

Europe’s frantic search for alternatives to Russian energy has dramatically increased the demand — and price — for Norway’s oil and gas. As the money pours in, Europe’s second-biggest natural gas supp...

These money and investing tips are tools to help fix your broken portfolio

Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Your stock portfolio didn’t have to lose so much this year Strong insider buying suggests a 15% rally in the S&P 500 from here ‘I feel like I am ...

Growth Stocks Down. Small-Caps Are Worse. Could This Be Time for Small-Cap Growth?

If your stocks are trailing the S&P 500, which is down 15% from its early January high, borrow a tactic from the pros: switch benchmarks. Perhaps you’re beating growth stocks. The S&P 500 Grow...

Ruble’s Rally Stumbles After Interest-Rate Cut

A rally in the Russian ruble that made it the world’s best performing major currency reversed itself for a second day Friday following an extraordinary rate cut by the country’s central bank. Russia’s...

Stock Market Rises as S&P 500, Nasdaq Add More Than 6% This Week

The S&P 500 raced higher Friday, notching its best week of the year and snapping a punishing losing streak that had almost ended its bull market. A slew of earnings results and economic data has b...

Durability of U.S. stock- market bounce in question as inflation worries linger ahead of payrolls report

Investors took a breather this week as U.S. stocks bounced back from a weeks long selloff and the latest reading on inflation offered glimmers of optimism to those hoping for a peak in price pressures...

Markets Finally Reversed Their Losing Streaks. The Fed Might Avoid Inflicting More Pain, After All.

Text size A ‘help wanted’ sign is displayed in a Manhattan store in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Nothing lasts forever, not even a stock market decline. But just because a mar...

Why the Dow finally bounced — and what it will take to prove it’s for real

A little pre-summer cheer finally filtered its way into the stock market the week before Memorial Day, but it will likely take more than the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s first winning week since lat...

The Stock Market Finally Had a Winning Week. Why It Might Not Last.

Text size Ed Yardeni, founder of Yardeni Research: “We now are raising the odds of a recession from 30% to 40%.” Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg The stock market ended its multiweek losing streak, and l...

7 Beaten-Up Tech Stocks That Could Be Bargains

Text size Meta Platforms’ advertising business has faced challenges from TikTok and Apple’s privacy changes. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg This year has been brutal for U.S. stocks, but that...

This Rally Could Force the Fed to Raise Rates Higher

The markets make the news, not the other way around, an insight that has been quite humbling to one who has made a living by reporting and analyzing the impact of news on financial markets. Consider t...

Stocks close sharply higher after inflation data; Dow snaps longest weekly losing streak since 1932

U.S. stocks ended sharply higher Friday, with all three major benchmarks booking weekly gains, after the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation for April had the smallest increase in a year ...

Here’s how much money you would have lost if you bought a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT a month ago

When the crypto market was generally sluggish over the first quarter, some investors turned to nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, which outperformed most other digital assets at the time, in search of a hav...

Stocks to Buy Now: Alphabet, Facebook, and 4 More Bargains

When the stock market gets pounded, bargains abound—or so it seems. But in a bear market, the key to investing success is separating the thoughtlessly discarded from the overpriced junk. With about tw...

Is It Time to Buy Stocks Again? Why Citi Says Yes.

Text size Can investors finally stop worrying about a bear market? Photo by MORRIS MAC MATZEN/AFP via Getty Images It’s been a long slog this year for the plummeting stock market. Citigroup’s model th...

Will the Stock Market Recover? 10 Reasons the Rally Might Be Real.

Text size Investors have been fooled before. Why this stock market rally feels like the real thing. Spencer Platt/Getty Images The stock market has been rallying this week. This one, unlike other atte...

Ethereum could ‘take over everything’, and there won’t be a multi-chain future, says EY’s blockchain leader

Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch, and I’ll walk you through the latest an...

These Stocks Could Pop if the Fed Keeps Its Hands off the Market

Text size Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Al Drago/Bloomberg Is the “Fed put” a thing of the past, or has it just been temporarily put on hold? I’m referring to the colloquial name Wall Street...

Dow books 4th day of gains, stocks rally after Fed minutes signal flexibility on interest rate hikes

Stocks closed higher Wednesday as investors took away a message of flexibility from the release of minutes of the early May Federal Reserve meeting about its path to higher interest rates. How did sto...

Here are 15 high-yield stocks expected to raise dividends the most through 2024

The stock market, shocked by the Federal Reserve’s policy changes to fight inflation, has been gored this year, with growth and technology companies bearing the brunt of the biggest declines. Dividend...