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U.S. stock futures sink following Friday’s Wall Street rout
U.S. stock-index futures plunged Sunday, after Wall Street sank Friday following hawkish comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that the fight against stubborn inflation would continue, ...
Bitcoin Has Stumbled. That’s Not a Good Sign for Stocks.
Text size Bitcoin’s drop isn’t much of a surprise. Interest rates have risen in the past few weeks as markets worry that the Federal Reserve would keep lifting rates to combat high inflation. Risk ass...
Week’s Best: Fee Hike at Vanguard
Vanguard has long maintained two platforms—a legacy mutual-fund-only offering and a brokerage—but it is now pressuring longstanding mutual-fund customers to switch over to the brokerage wing or incur ...
Opinion: U.S.-China relations just got a whole lot better, boosting the prospects of these three stocks
If you are laser-focused on inflation and the Federal Reserve’s policy, you might have missed a key breakthrough in U.S.-China relations that will boost U.S.-listed China stocks over the next six mont...
How retirees can survive a bear market
Wait until the VIX gets a lot lower before putting any sideline cash back to work in the stock market. That’s the implication of a 2019 academic study in the Journal of Financial Economics. Entitled “...
U.S. states fall short of pledges to cut ties with Russia
Driven by moral outrage over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, U.S. governors and other top state officials made it clear: They wanted to cut their financial ties with Russia. A few stat...
Fed chief Powell ‘did what he needed to do’ in Jackson Hole, Larry Summers says
“ ‘The Fed is positioned as well as it can be — given the credibility losses and mistakes that there have been — with these remarks to manage things going forward.’ ” — Larry Summers Former U.S. Treas...
Fed’s Powell sparked a 1,000-point rout in the Dow. Here’s what investors should do next.
Now might be the time to consider hiding out in short-dated Treasurys or corporate bonds and other defensive parts of the stock market. On Friday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell talked of a wi...
Shrinking the Fed’s balance sheet sheet is not likely to be a benign process, new Jackson Hole study warns
“If the past repeats, the shrinking of the central bank’s balance sheet is not likely to be an entirely benign process and will require careful monitoring of the banking sector’s on-and off-balance sh...
These dividend stocks can protect you as the Federal Reserve slows the economy
With Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell set to deliver an important speech Friday, investors may finally begin to take him at his word: The central bank is going to maintain a hawkish stance to co...
Here are 5 reasons why energy stocks look like a buy despite rising 74% in a year
Stocks in the S&P 500’s energy sector still have plenty of upside despite their 74% surge in the past 12 months, according to Jeff Buchbinder, chief equity strategist at LPL Financial. The strong ...
The Fed isn’t pivoting. Why were stock investors the last to know?
After Friday’s brutal session for stocks, it appears equities were the last asset class to accept the notion that the Federal Reserve likely won’t be pivoting to a less aggressive monetary policy stan...
Alibaba, Nio stocks rally along with other Chinese names as SEC reaches audit deal with China
U.S-listed shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Nio Inc. were among Chinese names trading higher in morning action Friday after the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has struck ...
‘The backlash to quiet quitting smacks of another attempt by the ruling class to get workers back under their thumbs:’ Am I wrong?
I have something to get off my chest. Please bear with me. We learned a lot from the (more than) two years of pandemic life. Among those lessons: 1. We can be really effective and productive working ...
‘Home prices where I live are close to $600,000.’ Is it a smart move to buy a house with all-cash — or better to take out a mortgage?
Dear Big Move, I’ve recently been thinking about purchasing my first home at 35. I have a nest egg of about $1.8 million that I’ve accrued over the past 14 years. This money is completely invested in...
Opinion: The stock market in all likelihood has entered a new bull phase — so you’ll want to own these five stocks
That didn’t take long. The slump in the S&P 500 Index SPX, +1.41% and Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +1.67% after their meteoric rise off mid-June lows has a lot of market commentators asking two ke...
Opinion: The Federal Reserve’s Powell has a lot of explaining to do
The Federal Reserve runs a symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year. It’s a rite of passage for many in central banking, in monetary economics and for Fed-watching. Sometimes there is a key Fed ...
Opinion: These 3 safe stocks yield more than 10-year Treasurys
After the volatility of early 2022 and the aggressive rate tightening by the Fed, there’s a return of chatter about the “Great Rotation” – that is, a broad move among investors to reduce exposure to g...
Financial markets are bracing for what could be a ‘very hawkish’ Jackson Hole speech by Fed’s Powell
Financial markets are bracing for Friday’s widely-anticipated Jackson Hole speech by Federal Reserve Jerome Powell and expecting that he’ll signal the continued need for aggressive interest-rate hikes...
Cathie Wood dumps Nvidia stock ahead of results
Is Cathie Wood fearing more bad news from Nvidia? Wood’s ARK Invest funds trimmed their stake in Nvidia NVDA, +0.86% ahead of the graphics chipmaker’s results. Nvidia has already warned on second-quar...
Zoom Video Stock Dives. Citi Says Lowered Guidance May Be ‘Too Optimistic.’
Text size Zoom cited soft performance in its online business, a segment focused on smaller businesses and the consumer. Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images Zoom Video Communications stock dived Tuesday ...
Opinion: The fundamentals of the stock market have improved markedly, but few investors have noticed
You’ll know that the bear market in stocks is nearing an end when investors remind anyone who’ll listen that equities are fairly or even undervalued. We’re not there yet. When bull market sentiment is...