The Federal Reserve isn’t trying to slam the stock market as it rapidly raises interest rates in its bid to slow inflation still running red hot — but investors need to be prepared for more pain and v...
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Why Is the Stock Market Down? It Knows the Worst Is Yet to Come.
Text size NYSE From a certain point onward, there is no turning back. The stock market reached that point this past week. Oh, the market was hopeful, entering the week, that inflation had reached its ...
A punishing selloff in short-term debt is pushing one rate near the ‘magic’ level that ‘frightens’ markets
The yield on the 1-year Treasury note is testing 4%, a level that traders say could spill over into other rates and send shivers through financial markets, as the Federal Reserve presses forward in ea...
XPeng Stock Is About to Go Higher, Says Analyst
Text size XPeng stock can gain in coming months, according to Deutsche Bank analyst Edison Yu. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images Sometimes timing is everything. And Deutsche Bank believes now is the...
Tesla Talks About a Lower-Priced Car. When It’s Coming.
Text size If it wasn’t for lousy inflation data, Tesla bulls might be feeling very happy with the company. Getty Images Tesla stock is down with the rest of the market on a bad day for stocks. T...
U.S. inflation roars back in August, CPI shows, despite falling gas prices
The numbers: Falling gas price delivered a second low U.S. inflation reading in a row as the consumer price index rose by just 0.1% in August. But the report also showed inflation has spread more broa...
Elon Musk Has a Solution for the Energy Grid. And He’s Probably Right.
Text size Tesla sells more than just cars. It sells battery storage solutions to utilities around the globe. Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images Heat, climate change, renewable power, and the grid are al...
3 Chip Stocks for a Potential Recession, According to an Analyst
Broadcom is one of three chip stocks Bernstein identified as able to outperform in a recession. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size Bernstein believes three semiconductor stocks can outperform if t...
T-Mobile Stock Market Value Has Been Rising. It’s Bigger Than Verizon.
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size There’s a new top dog in U.S. telecom. This past Tuesday, T-Mobile US nosed ahead of Verizon Communications , and AT&T in market capitalization—an exclamation...
U.S. stocks suffer largest weekly outflows in 11 weeks as investors brace for possible jumbo Fed rate hike
Investors withdrew billions of dollars out of U.S. equities funds over the past week as central bankers’ hawkish messaging fueled fears of deeper economic downturn. U.S. stock funds recorded the bigg...
How low can the stock market go? 4 bear scenarios investors should keep in mind
Bears who reckon the S&P 500 hasn’t yet found its bottom see the large-cap benchmark falling 15% to 35% from current levels, according to DataTrek Research co-founder Nicholas Colas. With that in ...
The Stock Market Had a Crazy Good Week. One Way to Make Sense of It All.
Text size Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Traders prefer a volatile market, and they’ve gotten one in 2022. Stocks have declined, rallied, and dropped again, driven by ever-evolving expectations for ...
The stock market’s June lows ‘need to be back in the conversation,’ says top chart watcher
Stock market investors may be facing another bear-market surprise, according to a technical strategy report from BTIG. The S&P 500’s monthly relative strength index is at 48, pointing to the possi...
Why Guggenheim’s Scott Minerd Sees Stocks Falling Another 20% by Mid-October
Text size Scott Minerd says ‘we should see a really sharp adjustment in prices very fast.’ Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Guggenheim Securities Chief Investment Officer Scott Miner...
Inflation expectations are ‘collapsing’ — here’s why that could spur a rebound in stocks
A closely watched U.S. bond-market gauge of near-term inflation expectations has fallen below the Federal Reserve’s 2% target for the first time in two years in a sign that stocks could find some near...
Lucid Stock Takes a Tumble. Why? Look at the Shareholder Mix.
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size A sudden drop in Lucid Group ’s stock price highlights a key investing insight: Shareholder mix matters. The electric-vehicle maker’s shares (ticker: LCID) fell 6...
The Stock Market Looked Ready to Recover Before Falling Apart. What Went Wrong.
Text size Jonathan Alpeyrie/Bloomberg August’s payrolls data was greeted with chants of “Goldilocks” for being not too hot and not too cold. Investors, however, forgot that “Goldilocks and the Three B...
What does Friday’s jobs report mean for the market? ‘Too hot’ and stocks could tumble, says market pro
With Federal Reserve Chair Powell last week reaffirming plans to keep raising interest rates to bring down inflation despite the risk of recession, Friday’s monthly U.S. jobs report may once again car...
Tesla Stock Takes Hit From Nvidia’s Warning About Business With China
Text size Production at Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory could face another supply problem in coming months. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images Nvidia ’s new chip problem can impact shares of some chip custome...
Ray Dalio says watch out for rates reaching this level, because Wall Street stocks will take a 20% hit
After that CPI shock earlier in the week, Wall Street is fielding a fresh batch of data on Thursday, with the headline retail sales number coming in stronger than expected. And a disastrous rail strik...