U.S. stock indexes ended another choppy session in the red on Thursday as investors digested a fresh batch of labor-market data and hawkish commentary from Federal Reserve officials, while looking ahe...
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Fed to stock market: Big rallies will only prolong painful inflation fight
It was a “don’t make me come back there” moment from the Federal Reserve. A line from the minutes of the central bank’s December policy meeting released Wednesday afternoon was taken by analysts and e...
NIO, Li, XPeng Deliveries Offer Good News To Start 2023.
Electric vehicle investors start 2023 with some good news. Chinese EV makers NIO Li Auto and XPeng capped a wild year with strong delivery results in December. The three EV makers combined to deliver ...
An Oil ETF Outpaced Crude by 5 Times Last Year. The Downside: Volatility.
Shares of the U.S. Oil exchange-traded fund surged 5.2% in the week before Christmas, and ended up 27% for the year. Oil prices did rise last year by nearly 5%, but how did an ETF that tracks them out...
Stocks cement worst year since 2008 as S&P 500 logs 4th biggest drop since inception
U.S. stocks polished off their worst year since 2008 with a loss on Friday, bringing the year-to-date decline for the S&P 500 to 19.4%, its largest calendar-year drop since 2008, Dow Jones Market ...
Stocks got wrecked by rate shock in 2022. Here’s what will drive markets in 2023
2022 is over. Take a breath. Investors were understandably eager to ring the bell on the stock market’s worst year since 2008, with the S&P 500 SPX, -0.25% falling 19.4%, the Dow Jones Industrial ...
Stock-market investors face 3 recession scenarios in 2023
With the U.S. stock market on track for its biggest annual decline in over a decade, fears that efforts by the Federal Reserve and other major central banks to bring down a surge in inflation will spa...
U.S. stocks fall on last trading day of 2022, booking monthly losses and worst year since 2008
U.S. stocks ended lower Friday, booking their worst annual losses since 2008, as tax-loss harvesting along with anxieties about the outlook for corporate profits and the U.S. consumer took their toll....
Is the U.S. stock market open the day after New Year’s?
Many investors likely can’t wait for a brutal 2022 to end. Stocks are facing their worst annual performance since 2008, while bond returns are the worst in decades or, in some cases, in history. The c...
Dow up over 350 points, stocks rebound after jobless claims data deemed ‘welcome news for the Fed’
U.S. stocks advanced on Thursday afternoon, erasing losses from earlier in the week during the second-to-last trading session of the year. The main indexes built on premarket gains after U.S. weekly j...
‘Five days that killed the year’: These trading sessions accounted for 95% of the S&P 500’s losses in 2022
Just five trading sessions accounted for more than 95% of S&P 500 index losses in 2022, according to an analysis by Datatrek co-founder Nicholas Colas in a note published Wednesday, as stocks head...
Asian shares rise in thin holiday trading, with U.S., European markets closed
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares rose Monday in Asia in thin post-Christmas holiday trading, with markets in Hong Kong, Sydney and several other places closed. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index NIK, +0.65% gained 0.6% to...
Equity funds suffer largest ever weekly outflows: BofA Global
Investors withdrew billions of dollars from equity funds at a record pace in the days after the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and European Central bank raised interest rates in mid-December and...
How a Santa Claus rally, or lack thereof, sets the stage for the stock market in first quarter
It’s the time of the year when the traditional seasonal lift for U.S. stocks known as the “Santa Claus rally” usually takes place. But unlike past holiday seasons, this one may get bogged down by the ...
Stocks Limp Toward 2023 as the Data Show Few Signs of a Clear Direction
Stocks limped on the low volumes of the pre-Christmas week, battered by conflicting data and leaving investors with a muddled outlook going into 2023. It’s a dynamic in which good news and bad news te...
Inflation Is Slowing Down, PCE Data, the Fed’s Preferred Measure, Shows
Inflation is slowing, but consumers aren’t spending as much as hoped this holiday season, data showed Friday. The core personal-consumption expenditures price index, or PCE deflator, was up 0.2% in No...
Stocks remain overpriced, even vs. the dot-com bubble. But you can still find good picks in these 2 sectors.
After stocks surged to their best gains in three weeks following strong consumer sentiment data, Thursday is looking less spirited with stocks in the red as we close in on the long Christmas weekend. ...
Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are the Trading Hours for Christmas.
This holiday season hasn’t exactly been filled with cheer for investors: Companies have been battling inflation and market volatility—and a recession seems to be looming ahead. On Thursday, the market...
Coinbase plunges 86% in 2022, amid FTX-inspired slump. But one analyst says ‘you have to have a multiyear time frame.’
Hello there and seasons greetings! This is Mark DeCambre, Editor in Chief at MarketWatch. The hottest story in crypto land remains FTX, even as we hurtle toward 2023. It is a fast-evolving situation. ...
Is a 2023 stock-market rebound in store after 2022 selloff? What history says about losing years.
History shows back-to-back losing years for the stocks are rare — but the size of the market’s drop in 2022 with no sign the Federal Reserve is ready to ride to the rescue means investors should bewar...
Why the Bank of Japan’s surprise policy twist is rattling global markets
Anchors aweigh? The Bank of Japan sent shock waves through global financial markets Tuesday, effectively loosening a cap on 10-year government bond yields in a surprise move seen as potentially pointi...
Tesla’s Elon Musk Has a Finance Lesson For Investors. They Disagree.
There is little time off for investors following Tesla these days. The weekend before Christmas is no exception. In the past couple of days, there have been more tweets about the electric-vehicle make...
Why Atlanta Tops the Hottest 2023 Real Estate Markets
Atlanta is hot. Georgia’s capital tops the National Association of Realtors’ list of markets to watch in 2023, based on 10 metrics, including housing affordability, employment conditions, and populati...
Snowflake Is a Great Cloud Stock to Buy on the Dip, Says Wells Fargo
Investors should buy Snowflake shares because companies are going to need the cloud-software data warehousing company’s services even as the economy slows down, Wells Fargo Securities says. On Friday,...