Dow ends over 700 points higher to exit bear market after Powell signals smaller interest-rate hikes ahead

U.S. stocks finished sharply higher on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising over 700 points to technically exit a bear market, after Federal Reserve Chairman Powell said the central...

Stock market could see ‘fireworks’ through the end of the year as headwinds have ‘flipped,’ Fundstrat’s Tom Lee says

Several headwinds that pummeled the stock market in 2022 have turned into tailwinds, setting the stage for a rally in U.S. equities heading into year-end, according to Tom Lee, head of research at Fun...

Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are the Hours for Black Friday.

Instead of gearing up to trade Thursday, investors may be defrosting their Thanksgiving turkeys—and clipping coupons ahead of Black Friday. This year, Thanksgiving and Black Friday come after two days...

Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are the Thanksgiving and Black Friday Hours.

Instead of gearing up to trade Thursday, investors may be defrosting their Thanksgiving turkeys—and clipping coupons ahead of Black Friday. This year, Thanksgiving and Black Friday come after two days...

Palo Alto Networks one of 2022’s best software stocks after another beat-and-raise quarter

Palo Alto Networks Inc. shares rallied Friday into rarified air for a tech company — and especially for an enterprise software company — in 2022, following another beat-and-raise quarter and praise fr...

This is the chart that rattled U.S. financial markets on Thursday

One chart is all it took to move financial markets on Thursday. That chart was presented by St. Louis Fed President James Bullard as part of a presentation in Louisville, Ky., and it shows where he se...

Alibaba, Tencent, lead Hong Kong tech stocks higher after upbeat China online retail sales data

Shares of Chinese internet giants jumped in Hong Kong, after official data showed better-than-expected October retail sales in the world’s second-largest economy. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. BABA, +0.7...

Genius or Jackass, Musk Stirs the Pot

To the Editor:Your timely analysis of Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase doesn’t consider one important factor: the millions of potential users who will enthusiastically embrace a free-speech platform uncon...

Sell These 3 Tech Stocks Because PC Demand Is Tumbling, Morgan Stanley Says

Falling demand for computers and electronics has made a Morgan Stanley analyst more pessimistic on three PC-related stocks. On Friday, Morgan Stanley analyst Erik Woodring reiterated his Underweight/S...

Dialysis company DaVita stock suffering worst day in 22 years after big profit miss, disappointing outlook

Shares of DaVita Inc. plummeted in active trading Friday, toward their worst performance in more than two decades, after the dialysis company reported third-quarter that fell well below expectations a...

Alibaba, JD, Baidu, and NIO Sink as China Tech Stocks Follow U.S. Selloff

Chinese technology stocks fell on Friday driving the Hang Seng Index to new lows. They seemed to be following U.S. investors who have fled from the sector after a string of disappointing earnings repo...

Dow jumps almost 750 points as stocks end higher, bond yields fall after reports Fed may shift to smaller rate hikes after November

U.S. stocks closed sharply higher Friday as investors weighed a story from the Wall Street Journal and comments from Federal Reserve officials suggesting that the central bank might shift to smaller i...

The Stock Market Is Rallying. What Needs to Happen for the Bear Market to End.

The stock market has leapt higher this week, but it needs to hop over several hurdles before it can end this year’s spectacular slump.  All three major U.S. indexes have gained this week, with the S&a...

Why stock market investors should wait for the 10-year Treasury to ‘blink’

When a key part of the U.S. bond market starts shrugging off new Federal Reserve interest rate hikes or tough talk on inflation, it’s probably time to buy stocks, according to James Paulsen, the Leuth...

Netflix and Tesla stocks are not having a good year, but here comes a chance to turn it around

Two stocks that have defined Wall Street’s boom in the past decade — streaming giant Netflix Inc. and electric-vehicle maker Tesla Inc. — will hope to turn around some poor recent trajectories as earn...

Layoffs at Intel Could Spell a Bitter Winter for Tech. It’s Not All Bad News.

Intel looks set to be the latest tech company to announce job cuts in the face of a gloomy macro outlook—a sign that a bitter winter is coming for the sector. From a more macro perspective, there are ...

Semiconductor Stocks Tumble After U.S. Announces New Chip Restrictions

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Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are the Hours for Columbus Day 2022.

Columbus Day arrives this year after investors navigated choppy waters last week. The S&P 500 marked its largest two-day gain since April 2020 on Tuesday, after a weak ISM manufacturing activity r...

Opinion: Could there be a stock market rally? Probably. Would it be the end of the bear market? Probably not.

The stock market’s low for the year on the last day in September is likely to be breached in this bear market, according to a contrarian analysis of market timer sentiment. That’s because at no point ...

S&P 500 would be in an ‘earnings recession’ if not for this one booming sector — but that may not last long

Fears of an actual recession are weighing on investors near the end of 2022, but there is another type of recession also in sight: an earnings recession. The S&P 500 index would already be in an e...

OPEC+ Agrees to Biggest Oil Production Cut Since Start of Pandemic

VIENNA—The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its Russia-led allies agreed on Wednesday to slash output by 2 million barrels of oil a day, delegates said, a move likely to push up a...

Credit Suisse: What’s going on, and why its stock is falling

Credit Suisse was trending for all the wrong reasons this weekend, as social media was in a frenzy debating whether one of the 30 global systemically important banks would collapse altogether. The ban...

Micron faces ‘unprecedented’ supply issues, and analysts are split on if the bottom has been hit

Micron Technology Inc. is dealing with an “unprecedented” oversupply problem, but whether it gets worse or better in the near-term is up for debate. However, analysts had different ideas about when th...

Don’t buy Occidental stock just because Warren Buffett is buying, analyst says

Shares of Occidental Petroleum Corp. continued to outperform its peer group and the broader stock market after the oil- and gas-production company disclosed that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway In...

How to Build a Bond Ladder for Income

While stock prices typically rise and fall from year to year, bond prices have historically been quite stable. Yet 2022 is shaping up to be a year of infamy for fixed income. Since bond prices move in...

Dow Futures Fall as Wall Street Anticipates Another Big Rate Hike From the Fed

Text size AFP via Getty Images Stock futures traded lower Monday in a week that is expected to see the Federal Reserve raise interest rates by another three-quarters of a point in its effort to stamp ...

Why Alibaba, Other China Tech Stocks Are an Exception to Goldman Sachs’ Outlook

Text size Alibaba and other Chinese tech stocks have been battered since the beginning of last year. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Chinese tech stocks have taken a beating since many hit all-time highs in earl...

U.S. Stocks Poised for Mixed Open on Monday

Stocks were poised for a mixed open in New York on Monday ahead of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy meeting. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Text size U.S....

This Is a Good Time to Buy Short-Term Bonds

Until recently, short-term bonds were a yield wasteland: A two-year Treasury note yielded 0.21% a year ago and just 1% in January. Today, the yield is over 3.8% and could soon touch 4%, thanks in good...

Here are some of the Bed Bath & Beyond stores slated to close soon

Struggling Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. has released a list of dozens of stores it aims to close. The home-goods retailer BBBY, +0.34% and most recent “meme stock” has been reducing the number of its st...

These five stocks in the S&P 500 lost almost half a trillion dollars in value in one day amid widespread wipeout

A decline in gasoline prices couldn’t mask the problem that spooked investors on Sept. 13: Core consumer prices resumed their rapid increase during August. Fear of the Federal Reserve’s ongoing tighte...