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Fintech Stocks Look Cheap. Why It Could Be Time to Buy.
Text size Wells Fargo has a strong outlook for the fintech sector. Dreamstime The fintech and digital payments sector has a new fan at Wells Fargo, who says the time to buy them is now. Analyst Jeff C...
Why Was the Stock Market Down Today? A Fed Official’s Speech Tanked the Market.
Text size Federal Reserve Gov. Lael Brainard said she expects policy to return “to a more neutral position later this year.” Drew Angerer/Getty Images Tech stocks and bond markets both sold off on Tue...
Bear market rally setting stage for correction: Morgan Stanley warns
A major Wall Street firm is on correction watch. Despite the latest market bounce, Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson is bracing for an S&P 500 decline of at least 13% between now and September. W...
Real Yields Show Where the Stock Market Is Really Headed
Text size No one knows if even an accelerated pace of rate increases is enough to eliminate inflation—or what it will do to stocks. Spencer Platt/Getty Images The stock market’s greatest fear is comin...
Stock Market Gets Boost From Bond Selloff. Time to Sell the Rip?
Text size NYSE The Federal Reserve is talking tough about fighting inflation—and the stock market loves it. Don’t expect equities to be so relaxed if Powell & Co. act on their words. The S&P 5...
Stock futures inch higher after Powell says bigger hikes possible
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, March 21, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Stock futures inched higher in overnight trading after Federal Reserve Chai...
Tech companies fight attrition with more equity grants as stocks drop
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Tech companies are looking to issue new stock and cash perks as slumping share prices weigh on employees’ wallet...
The Market Rose on the Fed’s Rate Hikes. What It Might Be Missing.
Text size Fed Chair Jerome Powell told reporters Wednesday the central bank had the tools to bring inflation down. Photographer: Julia Nikhinson/Bloomberg It may not rank with the “whatever it takes” ...
Federal Reserve expected to raise interest rates in week ahead
A trader on the NYSE, March 11, 2022. Source: NYSE Investors may take the Federal Reserve’s first post-pandemic interest rate hike in stride, while uncertainty over the Ukraine crisis continues ...
5 things to know before the stock market opens Monday, March 7
Here are the most important news, trends and analysis that investors need to start their trading day: 1. Dow futures cut sharp losses as $130 crude comes a bit off the boil Traders work on the floor o...
5 things to know before the stock market opens Monday, February 28
Here are the most important news, trends and analysis that investors need to start their trading day: 1. Stock futures drop after new sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine A trader works at the New...
U.S. is top safe haven amid Russia-Ukraine war: Blackstone’s Joe Zidle
The world’s leading private equity firm suggests the U.S. the ultimate safe haven play. According to Blackstone’s Joseph Zidle, it’s largely insulated from the Russia-Ukraine war fal...
Jim Cramer looks at how fear over Russian aggression gave way to a stunning market comeback
CNBC’s Jim Cramer offered reasons for Wall Street’s wild reversal Thursday, with the major U.S. stock indexes shaking off steep losses early in the session related to Russia’s invasi...
Cramer expects stock rally if inflation or Russian aggression resolves
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday that a market snapback is possible if the current biggest headwinds, the Russia-Ukraine crisis and soaring inflation, ease up. “For the market, it’s ...
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...
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...
5 things to know before the stock market opens Monday, February 14
Here are the most important news, trends and analysis that investors need to start their trading day: 1. Futures steady after comments from Russia’s top diplomat Traders on the floor of the NYSE...
5 things to know before the stock market opens Monday, February 7
Here are the most important news, trends and analysis that investors need to start their trading day: 1. Wall Street edged up after S&P 500, Nasdaq score best weeks of 2022 Traders work on the flo...
This is a treacherous market filled with extreme stock moves
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday offered viewers his game plan for the next five trading days on Wall Street. The “Mad Money” host’s lookahead came after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq ...
Crypto start-ups raised huge venture funding rounds in January
A bitcoin sculpture made from scrap metal is installed outside the BitCluster cryptocurrency mining farm in Norilsk, Russia, on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cryptoc...
Volatility to shock investors in messy market: BofA’s Subramanian says
Investors should proceed with caution, according to BofA Securities’ Savita Subramanian. Even though February kicked off on a strong note, she warned on CNBC’s “Fast Money” a m...
Cramer says ‘the growth selling is over, the value selling has begun’
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday he’s starting to question the ability of value stocks to outperform growth counterparts even as Wall Street worries about a more aggressive Federal Reserve. I...
Stock Market Negatives And Key Levels To Hold
(Photo by Mario Tama) Getty Images The most important problem for the stock market is that all major averages have negative weekly charts. This put the market into “sell strength” mode. The Dow Jones ...
Tech sell-off has VCs worried about a drop in startup valuations
A conceptual image showing stock exchange numbers and flames. Sean Gladwell | Moment | Getty Images After a blockbuster year for venture capital deals, some investors worry the boom times may not last...
Jim Cramer discusses the Tuttle Capital Short Innovation ETF
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday highlighted an exchange-traded fund that’s seeking to benefit from the weakness in formerly high-flying growth stocks that have struggled as the Federal Reser...
WeTransfer cancels IPO due to stock market volatility
The WeTransfer logo on a smartphone. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg via Getty Images LONDON — The stock market has gotten a little too volatile for WeTransfer’s liking. The Dutch file-sharing company s...
Supply chain woes still held back 3Q sales
Logitech’s better-than-expected quarterly results may have been stronger without the ongoing supply chain challenges, CEO Bracken Darrell told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday. “We could...
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...