It’s been a terrible week in an awful year for the stock market. Walmart WMT, -0.82%, Target TGT, -0.62%, and Tencent 700, +3.53% each reported disappointing results to add fuel to the worries about i...
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Selloff puts Dow, S&P 500 on cusp of bear market. History says more pain may lie ahead.
History shows that when the S&P 500 enters a bear market, it tends to stay awhile. Back-to-back drops left the large-cap benchmark SPX, -0.58% down 18.7% from its Jan. 3 record finish on Thursday,...
The S&P 500 Is Almost in a Bear Market. This Is the Level to Watch.
Text size The Nasdaq MarketSite in New York’s Times Square. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Another day, another sea of red on investors’ screens. The S&P 500 has shed more than $7 trillion in marke...
Why one hedge-fund manager invests in Bank of America and says Tether’s days are numbered
Guy Spier, the fund manager of the Aquamarine Fund, has no shortage of praise to pour upon Jamie Dimon, the chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase. “The combination of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan...
Will the stock market drop 20% or 48% from the peak? Here’s the key factor, says this strategist.
“Is the economy under control or is it spiraling out of control? That’s the million-dollar question traders continue arguing over,” sums up CrackedMarket blogger Jani Ziedins. Clearly, the latter argu...
Worried about your investments? Here’s how the smart money made 100% when market gloom was this bad.
The best news for investors that I’ve heard in a long time is that the M.B.A. geniuses who manage the world’s pension funds now hate the stock market with a vengeance. According to the latest comprehe...
Markets haven’t acted like this since 1981 — and here’s how that played out
You have to go all the way back to 1981 when stocks, bonds, inflation-protected bonds and industrial metals were all slumping simultaneously. The S&P 500 index SPX, -0.73% has retreated 18% this y...
Cathie Wood has a simple response to Tesla getting booted out of an S&P 500 ESG index: ‘Ridiculous’
Cathie Wood isn’t pleased about one of her most popular investments, Tesla Inc., being excluded from a prominent index that tracks eco- and socially friendly companies. “Ridiculous,” was essentially W...
How Long Do Bear Markets Last? S&P 500 Is Near One— and It May Fall More.
The worst selloffs began in 1973, 2000 and 2007. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Text size With the latest 4% drop on Wednesday, the S&P 500 index is now 18% below its all-time high and dangerously clo...
Next big shoe to drop in financial markets: Inflation that fails to respond to Fed rate hikes
Traders, investors and strategists are adding one more factor to the list of reasons why financial markets may be in for more volatility through at least the next three to four months: the likelihood ...
A ‘summer of pain’ for stocks? Nasdaq Composite could plunge 75% from peak, and S&P 500 skid 45% from top, warns Guggenheim’s Scott Minerd
The carnage playing out in the U.S. stock market on Wednesday is likely an amuse-bouche compared with the devastation on the menu for the bulls in the coming months and years, Guggenheim Partners Glob...
You just retired and your target-date fund has plunged. What do you do now?
If you recently retired or are near retirement and you had your money in a target-date fund designed for people retiring about now, bad luck. So far this year, the “target” is you. Morningstar tells m...
Here’s what a modern Volcker-style inflation fight could look like, SocGen says
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has begun talking about a “softish landing” for the economy as the central bank squares off against high inflation by raising rates and cutting its nearly $9 tri...
Beware of the Gains in Stocks. It Looks Like a ‘Bear Market Rally.’
Text size Morgan Stanley expects more losses to follow the recent gain in the S&P 500. Dreamstime The stock market has enjoyed a mini-rally in the past few days, but the latest gains look like an ...
Is it now or never for a stock rally? Fund managers’ cash pile is the biggest since 2001, says Bank of America
Fearing stagflation and higher interest rates, global money managers have been amassing cash at a level not seen in two decades. That’s according to an “extremely bearish” May survey of global money m...
Stock investors are now starting to feel the 5 stages of bear-market grief
The bear market for stocks isn’t over. In fact, it may have aways to go. That’s because — even with the S&P 500 SPX, +1.65% 16% below its all-time high, and both the Nasdaq Composite COMP, +2.14% ...
Opinion: Amazon’s stock price has slumped almost 34% this year. This money manager says it’s a steal and could surge 76% to $3,900 in 2 years
The stock market is a funny place: When great businesses go on sale, most people don’t rejoice. Instead they freak out. This presents an excellent opportunity for long-term investors who keep their wi...
Here’s what just happened that triggers stock market drops 71% of the time, warns Credit Suisse
Wall Street’s in an unusually bullish mood Tuesday morning. Tim Holland, chief investment officer at Orion Advisor Solutions, argues the market has just notched two peaks. Last week, the Labor Departm...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reveals new stakes in Paramount, Citigroup
OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett’s company on Monday revealed all the investment moves it made in the first quarter, when it spent more than $51 billion on stocks. But Buffett had already shared the bigge...
Chevron, Micron and 18 More Stocks Goldman Recommends to Ride Out the Storm
Text size Qualcomm is one of the 20 stocks on Goldman Sachs’ ‘margin of safety’ list. Pau Barrena /AFP via Getty Images Exxon Mobil , Qualcomm , Micron and Chevron are just some of t...
Bitcoin ‘not going to take over as an alternative form of money’: Ben Bernanke
Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, said that he doesn’t think bitcoin would take over “as an alternative form of money.” Bitcoin BTCUSD, +0.50% and other cryptocurrencies have bee...
Gloomy Goldman offers 20 ‘safety’ stocks with valuations below the previous 2 bear markets
It’s tight quarters in Wall Street’s bear sleuth these days. Goldman Sachs just downgraded their 2022 U.S. growth forecast (to 2.4% from 2.6%) and 2023 (to 1.6% from 2.2%), as senior chairman Lloyd Bl...
Crypto Prices Move in Tandem With Traditional Markets, Punishing Investors
Cryptocurrency prices are moving in lockstep with stocks and bonds like never before, punishing those who bought bitcoin and other digital assets in part to diversify their investment holdings. The th...
Here’s the real reason the stock market is coming unglued — and it isn’t because of weak earnings
An earnings recession is not the biggest threat facing the stock market right now. That may seem a curious assertion to make in a week in which the largest retailers are reporting disappointing earnin...