Lucid Stock Falls on First Recall. This One Isn’t Fixed With Software.

Text size The Lucid Air electric sedans will have to go to the shop for a fix. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Electric-vehicle start-up Lucid has its first recall listed on the National Highway Traffic S...

The next shoe to drop? The 125-year old Dow industrials are on brink of correction. Here’s what history says happens next in the U.S. stock market.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was on the verge of entering correction territory after closing sharply lower on Wednesday as the Pentagon said that Russian troops were poised to launch a full-blown ...

S&P 500 logs first correction in 2 years as Russia-Ukraine conflict escalates. Here’s what history says happens next to U.S. stock-market benchmark

The S&P 500 on Tuesday fell into a correction for the first time in two years, joining the Nasdaq Composite, as Russia sent troops into pro-Russian regions in Ukraine. The S&P 500 index SPX, -...

The Russia Issue Is Hurting the Stock Market. How Things Could Get Worse.

Text size President Joe Biden spoke Tuesday about Russian military activity near Ukraine. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images While stocks are reeling in response to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, t...

Stock Market Today: Overseas Stocks Fall as Russia-Ukraine Tensions Simmer

Text size Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden have agreed in principle to a summit in Europe. AFP via Getty Images Global stocks fell on Monday as tensions remained high over the Russian military buildup on ...

How Stocks Perform Just Before and After a Drastic Fed Interest-Rate Increase

Text size Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve. Graeme Jennings / POOL/AFP via Getty Images The Federal Reserve could implement two interest-rate increases in one fell swoop next month. The sto...

What the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine means for markets

Fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are keeping investors on edge. President Joe Biden on Friday said he believed Russian leader Vladimir Putin had made up his mind to invade in coming days but tha...

What Will Stocks Do if War—or Peace—Erupts in Ukraine?

Text size A Ukrainian guard at a checkpoint on the border with Russia. There could be a financial toll, as well as a heavy human one, if the Kremlin launches an invasion. Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Ukrinf...

Russia-Ukraine Tensions Mount and Fed Tightening Weighs. There’s Only 1 Certainty for Markets.

U.S. stocks are being bumped around from crisis to crisis as if in a pinball machine. The uncertainty around the Federal Reserve’s policy and the future path of interest rates keeps surfacing on a reg...

Death cross crystallizes in Nasdaq Composite on Friday for first time in 2 years, in a bearish sign for the stock market

The Nasdaq Composite index has produced a “death cross” chart pattern on Friday, a bearish chart pattern for an asset. History suggests this occurrence could weigh on the broader stock market over the...

Presidents Day or Washington’s Birthday? Is the stock market open? Here are trading hours.

U.S. financial markets will be closed on Monday in observance of Presidents Day, or Washington’s Birthday, if you prefer. The Intercontinental Exchange Inc. ICE, -1.96% -owned New York Stock Exchange ...

Nvidia Can’t Catch a Break. Why Its Stock Is Still a Buy.

Text size Nvidia stock was falling Thursday despite a “beat and raise” earnings result. Dreamstime Nvidia can’t seem to catch a break. The chip maker delivered what Wall Street was expecti...

Stock market faces the most ‘massive misallocation’ of ‘capital in the history of mankind,’ says ARK’s Cathie Wood

Cathie Wood, the star fund manager and chief executive of ARK Invest, took to CNBC to defend the woeful performance of the manager’s suite of disruptive innovation funds. Wood told the business networ...

Nvidia Can’t Catch a Break. The Stock Is Falling but Is Still a Buy.

Text size Nvidia stock was falling Thursday despite a “beat and raise” earnings result. Dreamstime Nvidia can’t seem to catch a break. The chip maker delivered what Wall Street was expecti...

Buy Synaptics Stock. It’s the Best-Performing Chip Stock.

Synaptics historically made fingerprint sensors and other chips to power touchscreens and has more recently expanded into the Internet of Things business. Illustration by Stuart Briers Text size The s...

Inflation has knocked back the market. Here are the key S&P 500 and tech stock levels one strategist fears.

Investors are still trying to come to grips with that double whammy of nosebleed consumer prices and 100-basis-point increase talk from St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard. Read: Oil is ...

Stock Market Slides Because Russia Is Scarier Than the Federal Reserve

Text size Markets were poised to end the week higher, despite a hotter-than-hoped-for inflation reading on Thursday. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg It was like a splash of cold water to the face, but there’s...

Alibaba Earnings Are Coming. What to Expect.

A selloff in the technology sector and macroeconomic headwinds in China make Alibaba’s looming earnings report sure to be an interesting one. The Chinese e-commerce giant announced Friday that its fin...

Alibaba Earnings Are Coming. Here’s When, What to Expect and 4 Numbers to Watch.

A selloff in the technology sector and macroeconomic headwinds in China make Alibaba’s looming earnings report sure to be an interesting one. The Chinese e-commerce giant announced Friday that its fin...

Why hedge-fund manager Doug Kass says his bearish case is now stronger and dip buyers should bide their time

For equity dip buyers still waiting in the wings, hedge-fund manager Doug Kass suggests holding fire for now as better bargains, and unfortunately worse times, are ahead. “It is my view that the odds ...

Facebook Stock Is Rising. Today’s the Day It Might End Its Slide.

Text size Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Alex Wong/Getty Images Wednesday just might be the day that shares of Meta Platforms , the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, bounce off rock bo...

Buy the dip? Why the stock market’s bounce off January lows may prove premature

A big stock-market bounce after an ugly January might reflect misplaced confidence in a previously tried-and-true trading strategy, a Wall Street analyst warned on Monday. “After a tough markdown of s...

Knightscope Stock—Like Its Security Robots—Has Its Ups and Downs

Text size Knightscope’s robots—and shares—have had their ups and downs. Dreamstime Knightscope is a tiny firm that’s familiar to many investors, if only from news reports about its “autonomous securit...

Stocks’ Rally Looks Nice. Here’s Why You Should Put It on Ice

Text size Dreamstime For the stock market, this past week had the feel of steering out of a spin after hitting an ice patch—and driving away safely. Unfortunately, the road ahead may be even more trea...

How Rivian Rescued Amazon Earnings–But Not Ford

Text size Courtesy of Rivian Amazon.com ‘s huge earnings beat was mostly driven by gains from its holdings of Rivian Automotive stock. Ford Motor owns Rivian stock too. Like Amazon , it reported bette...

Bears beware. Past corrections for the S&P 500 are only 15% on average, outside of recessions

Even after a rough January for Wall Street, it might take the U.S. economy slipping into a recession before the S&P 500 index risks entering a bear market, according to Oxford Economics. “Equities...

This Is What a Stock-Market Earnings Slowdown Looks Like. Things Could Take a Turn for the Worse.

Text size It’s been a painful time for investors hoping that earnings could drive stocks higher. Even the rallies are stomach-churning. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:...

When to stop investing in the stock market? Wild price swings are shaking the resolve of some: Is it time to bail out of equities and bonds?

Is it time to bail out of stocks and bonds? This isn’t the market that investors likely signed up for back in 2021 when shares in GameStop Corp. GME, +4.69% and movie chain AMC Entertainment Holdings ...

What to expect from markets in the next six weeks, before the Federal Reserve revamps its easy-money stance

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell fired a warning shot across Wall Street last week, telling investors the time has come for financial markets to stand on their own feet, while he works to tame i...

Market Volatility Is Creating Opportunities for Stocks. What to Buy Now

The 2022 market was always going to be a tug of war between earnings and interest rates. Corporate profit growth fueled by the reopening has come up against contracting valuations and expectations of ...

When Is the Next Recession Coming? Here’s How to Time It

Fake it ‘til you make it might work in Silicon Valley. It’s a less practical strategy for the Federal Reserve, which looks ready to compound one mistake with another. The central bank’s statement on W...

Opinion: The party’s over: The Fed and Congress have pulled their support from workers and investors

Even as the government reports the fastest economic growth in nearly 40 years, the historic gains in income and wealth that inflated the economy in 2020 and 2021 are fading fast. The air is coming out...