With the S&P 500 holding above 4,000 and the CBOE Volatility Gauge, known as the “Vix” or Wall Street’s “fear gauge,” VIX, +0.74% having fallen to one of its lowest levels of the year, many invest...
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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...
The best-performing sector in 2022 is not finished crushing it, says Citi, offering three stocks to buy
You can count on it, says our call of the day provided by Citigroup, though they say investors can’t expect as lofty returns. “We see market rotation into energy equities as having further to run, eve...
Markets will shift to a ‘hope’ phase next year, and investors would be wise not to miss it, says Goldman Sachs
Fresh China COVID-19 worries are threatening to nix any preholiday gains for Wall Street, with stocks struggling, oil tumbling and the dollar higher as Monday’s session gets underway. In a shortened w...
It’s Time for the Stock Market to Worry About Recession
The stock market is so over the Federal Reserve—but that doesn’t mean it’s out of the woods just yet. Attention is now turning to the U.S. economy—and whether it sinks into recession will determine if...
Black Friday can offer investors clues about how much gas consumers have left in the tank: Here’s what to watch out for
Black Friday is arriving at an interesting time for the American consumer. Shoppers have seemingly persevered this year despite an all-out assault on their pocketbooks and net worth — from falling equ...
Veteran manager offers 5 ‘cheap, quality, dividend’ stocks that will let you play one of tech’s biggest themes.
2022 may be remembered as the year investors fell out of love with tech stocks. While the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -3.91% is up about 5.3% this quarter, that’s after three dismal ones, and a 28% loss fo...
Elon Musk Has the Next Tesla CEO in Mind. There Are a Few Candidates.
Tesla board member James Murdoch said Elon Musk knows who could run Tesla after him. It might have been a throwaway line said while being questioned in a trial. Still, it’s a chance for investors to ...
What the Stock Market and the Midterm Elections Have Common.
Investing and politics go together about as well as mango chutney and burned hair, and we prefer to focus on the stocks and leave the pontificating about the state of the nation to the Beltway pundits...
U.S. stocks could rally another 25% now that Fed no longer has ‘back against the wall’ in inflation fight
One of Wall Street’s most implacable bulls has laid out his argument for why he thinks U.S. stocks can continue to rally into the year’s end after Thursday’s game-changing October inflation data. Tom ...
Crypto and tech are the first dominoes to fall as stimulus liquidity dries up, says this money manager. Here’s what could happen next.
Read: Sequoia on its FTX investment: Some surprise to the upside, and some surprise to the downside JPMorgan is predicting a “cascade of margin calls, deleveraging and crypto company/platform failures...
Binance CEO in internal memo: ‘I had very little knowledge of the internal state of things at FTX’
“‘It was less than 24 hours ago that SBF called me. And before that, I had very little knowledge of the internal state of things at FTX.’” — Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao o...
Amazon Has Lost $1 Trillion in Market Cap. Ouch.
Amazon.com has now lost more than $1 trillion in market capitalization, the most ever by a U.S. company and the first time one company has shed that much market value. It’s a painful reminder to inves...
Plug Power Missed Sales Estimates By a Mile. Wall Street Isn’t Worried.
Hydrogen fuel-cell technology company Plug Power reported third-quarter results that fell way short of Wall Street expectations, but analysts still believe the company’s future is very bright. Tuesday...
New stock-market lows ahead? What investors need to know as Fed signals rates will be higher for longer.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sent a clear signal interest rates will move higher and stay there longer than previously anticipated. Investors wonder if that means new lows for the beaten-dow...
‘Oh, my gosh, why am I not in the market?’ This forecaster says investors will be shocked by what’s about to happen next.
Slower, but higher rates and no pivot this side of Christmas. That was the message from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell after the central bank’s fourth-straight jumbo hike. Bruised investors continue to se...
Self-Driving Technology Provider Luminar Just Hit a Big Milestone
After 10-plus years of moonshot R&D, Luminar Technologies has made it into automotive production with its radarlike systems. Wednesday evening, lidar maker Luminar (ticker: LAZR) reported third-qu...
What Fed Chair Powell can say to keep the stock-market rally going — or kill it
Whatever Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says when he steps up to the podium on Wednesday will likely have ramifications for financial markets. But what do equity investors need to hear from th...
Adidas Bails From Yeezy. Why That Packs a Punch.
Times are tough at Adidas The German company has too much inventory and falling China sales. It’s slashed guidance, and earnings ran about half what Wall Street expected. The stock is down by more tha...
Bernstein launches coverage of Canada’s Tilray, Cronos and Canopy Growth but stops short of any buy ratings
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analyst Nadine Sarwat initiated coverage of three Canadian cannabis stocks on Wednesday but stopped short of any buy recommendations at current levels. “Is the buzz gone...