Why China’s party congress left investors feeling gloomy

Financial-market investors were craving economic policy guidance from the China’s Communist Party Congress, but when the ruling party wrapped up its twice-a-decade political gathering on Saturday to t...

THe Dow Rarely Beats the Nasdaq Like This. What History Says Happens Next.

There’s nothing worse than kicking someone when they’re down—but sometimes it needs to be done. That’s the case with the Nasdaq Composite which is on pace to lag behind the Dow Jones Industrial Averag...

The Dow soars, Big Tech tumbles: What’s next for stocks as investors await Fed guidance

The past week offered a tale of two markets, with gains for the Dow Jones Industrial Average putting the blue-chip gauge on track for its best October on record while Big Tech heavyweights suffered a ...

XPeng Stock Plunges After Rare Double-Downgrade

Shares for Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng have just been hammered in 2022—and they dropped even more Friday after a once-bullish analyst said to sell the stock. Citi analyst Jeff Chung doubled-d...

Why the Dow is having a killer month as it heads for best October ever

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been criticized by some market watchers for being a poor barometer of equity-market performance given its relatively small sample size of just 30 stocks. But this ...

Stocks are having a stellar October. Why the bear-market rally may have more room to run.

An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the U.S. midterm elections. They will be held Nov. 8, not Nov. 9. Despite a raft of risky events that investors must face down over the coming we...

Tesla Stock Falls. It’s All About China.

Electric vehicle maker Tesla cut prices in China, the largest market for new cars and electric vehicles on the planet. Investors are nervous. Tesla Chinese website on Sunday showed lower prices to buy...

Tesla Cuts Prices In China. Bears Are Likely to See Demand Problems.

Electric-vehicle maker Tesla looks to be cutting prices in China, the largest market for new cars and new electric vehicles on the planet. Trading Monday will give investors some idea of how the marke...

The Stock Market Had a Great Week, but It Hasn’t Gone Anywhere in a Month. Inside a Very Volatile Market.

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Stock-market investors brace for busiest week of earnings season. Here’s how it stacks up so far.

So far, so good? Stocks ended the first full week of the earnings season on a strong note Friday, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +2.47%, S&P 500 SPX, +2.37% and Nasdaq Composite CO...

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...

Wall Street is driving explosive swings in stocks by embracing a trading strategy popularized by the Reddit crowd

Reddit-loving day traders are reportedly returning to their day jobs, according to the Wall Street Journal, but back in the world of high finance professional traders have adopted one of their signatu...

‘Fragile’ Treasury market is at risk of ‘large scale forced selling’ or surprise that leads to breakdown, BofA says

The world’s deepest and most liquid fixed-income market is in big, big trouble. For months, traders, academics, and other analysts have fretted that the $23.7 trillion Treasurys market might be the so...

Stock-market selloff may mean another 20% drop for S&P 500, says Wall Street veteran

“‘I generally believe that rates are going to continue to go higher and inflation is not going to come down as much as expected.’” — Thomas Peterffy, chairman and founder of Interactive Brokers Thomas...

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...

Where Goldman says investors should be looking for bargains. Hint: the S&P 500 is too expensive

The S&P 500 index has declined by 22.7% year to date, but strategists at Goldman Sachs think it’s still too expensive.  The large-cap index started the year with a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of...

How Alternative Investments Saved the Day for Big University Endowments

University endowments, battered by stock-market losses, posted their worst fiscal year since the financial crisis. The largest funds, however, were helped by higher allocations to alternative investme...

Classic 60/40 investing strategy sees worst return in 100 years. How about 40/60?

Rules of thumb in investing appear to no longer apply in the carnage of 2022 in financial markets. Advocates for the 60/40 portfolio split, designed to capture the upside of stocks, but offer investor...

‘Growing wealth gap and rising inflation … hurt the global economy at almost every turn,’ Jamie Dimon says

What a difference 25 years can make. The world today is a markedly different place from the world that existed at MarketWatch’s inception in October 1997. JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM, +1.66% CEO Jami...

Stocks Look Alluring for the Longer Term, say U.S. money managers

Patience in a volatile market like this year’s is a tall order. But it is the recipe for long-term success espoused by institutional investors in Barron’s latest Big Money poll. Big Money respondents ...

The Stock Market Rebound Fizzled. Why a Real Bottom Could Be Forming Soon.

Investors seemingly can’t stop trying to pick a stock market bottom, no matter how bad the news—and it continues to backfire. The day for a real bounce, however, may be coming soon. Consider: This pas...

‘This is not QE or QT. This is none of those.’ Why the U.S. Treasury is exploring debt buybacks

The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday said it plans to start talking with primary dealers in late October about the potential for it to begin buying back some of its older debt to help stave off mark...

Why Is the Stock Market Up Today? It’s Complicated.

“Stop making sense,” the Talking Heads once sang. The stock market took it literally on Thursday with a massive rally following an inflation reading that everyone agreed was way too hot. So what gives...

What stock-market investors will be watching in Thursday’s U.S. inflation report

Hotter-than-expected U.S. consumer-price index readings have triggered some of the stock market’s biggest one-day selloffs in 2022, serving to focus investor attention ahead of the latest measure of r...

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 ...

Good News for Tesla Investors: The Stock Is Now Oversold.

Shares of electric-vehicle leader Tesla have gone through just a brutal stretch lately. It’s been painful for the bulls, but they might be getting some relief soon. Tesla (ticker: TSLA) stock dropped ...

Bernanke says Fed shouldn’t use interest rates to ‘fine-tune’ financial stability risks

The Federal Reserve shouldn’t use its interest-rate policy to “fine-tune” financial stability risks, said former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke on Monday. Speaking to reporters at the Brookings Institution...

Stocks could fall ‘another easy 20%’ and next drop will be ‘much more painful than the first’, Jamie Dimon says

JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM, -0.92% CEO Jamie Dimon warned investors on Monday that he expects markets to remain volatile for the foreseeable future, and that the S&P 500 could easily fall anothe...

Here’s how you’ll know stock-market lows are here, says investor who called crash in ’87

“If you think about where we are right now, the Federal Reserve Board is fighting something that it hasn’t seen really in almost four decades, which is inflation. Inflation is a bit like toothpaste: o...

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: How you can save $60k for a home down payment without risk or waiting forever

Yes, starting from zero and trying to save a bit each month will take a while. To put together that princely sum, you’d have to save $500 a month for around nine years in a high-interest savings accou...

Cracks in financial markets fuel debate on whether the next crisis is inevitable

To paraphrase a quote by legendary investor Warren Buffett: It’s only when the tide goes out that you discover who’s been swimming without a suit. In this case, the metaphorical tide represents the en...