U.S. stocks finished sharply lower on Thursday, with the financial sector logging a sharp one-day drop, while investors awaited Friday’s February employment data that could help decide how large an in...
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How investors can learn to live with inflation: BlackRock
Growth stocks may have led the early 2023 rally, but stubbornly high inflation means that won’t last. That’s the main message from the BlackRock Investment Institute on Monday, as U.S. stocks attempte...
What The Price Charts Reveal Now
Inflation, stocks getty When the inflation readings show increased inflation, that means the Fed may want to battle it by taking interest rates higher and for longer than previously thought. Those rea...
The next few days may reveal whether investors have been riding one big suckers rally, says this strategist.
Stocks are off to a weaker start as caution grips investors following Friday’s monster jobs beat. While subject to revisions, that 517,000 surge in U.S. jobs may have shredded hopes among some that th...
Buy Tennant Company And Brown & Brown
Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images Getty Images Below, we see the performance of the US indices in the first 2 weeks of 2023. Note that the Value Line index is number one. This is an equally-weighted in...
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...
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 ...
Why Monday’s selloff in the stock market could be the start of the next leg lower
Monday’s punishing selloff could be the beginning of the next leg lower for stocks as a sense of complacency has taken hold in markets following a stellar October and November, several strategists tol...
Get ready for some bullish history to repeat with these stocks, says BofA analysts
Stagflation is coming, but with that comes a silver lining for some equities if history is any guide. That’s according to strategists at Bank of America, who see a macro backdrop that continues to ref...
Small-Cap Stocks Have Rarely Been So Depressed. 7 to Buy Now.
Longtime investor Nicholas F. Galluccio has seen his fair share of market turmoil, but one thing has remained constant over nearly four decades: a focus on finding small stocks with big prospects. Gal...
S&P, Nasdaq And Dow Have Negative Weekly Charts. Here’s How To Trade Them.
(Photo by Andrew Burton) Getty Images The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI), S&P 500 Index (SPX), Nasdaq Composite (IXIC), Dow Jones Transport Average (DJT) and Russell 2000 Index (RUT) have nega...
Stock-market summer rally ran out of steam. What history says about September.
A summer U.S. stock-market rally off lows for the year seen in June shuddered to a halt in August, leaving major indexes with monthly losses as investors braced for the start of a traditionally unplea...
The Bulls Still Own This Market. But Cracks Are Starting to Show.
Text size Riskier and more speculative pockets of the market have led the rally, which has coincided with a decline in bond yields. NYSE If it looks like a bull market and acts like a bull market, it’...
Small-Cap Stocks Have Been Big Winners. Why They Can Keep Outperforming.
Text size Yeti cooler sales are expected to grow, and the company has added drinkware products to its line. Sergio Flores/Bloomberg Good things are supposed to come in small packages, but that hasn’t ...
It’s time to overweight small caps as ‘they’ve come very close to pricing in recession’: RBC Capital
Small-cap stocks have attracted more investors and analysts attention this week with their benchmark index the Russell 2000 jumping 3.5% on Tuesday to 1799 points, its biggest one day percentage gain ...
These new ETFs are burning the midnight oil to make investors money
Two new ETFs out this summer are working the overnight shift. The NightShares 500 [NSPY] and NightShares 2000 ETFs [NIWM] are doing something no ETF has done before: Take advantage of the so-called &#...
The S&P 500 Had Its Worst First Half Since 1970. What the Second Half Holds.
The S&P 500 has posted its worst first half of a year since Richard Nixon’s presidency, and many investors worry it has yet to hit bottom. In the first six months of 2022, the widely followed larg...
What’s next for the stock market after the worst 1st half since 1970? Here’s the history.
A bear market that began shortly after the calendar flipped over to 2022 has the S&P 500 on track for its worst first half in 52 years. Investors looking ahead to the end of the year might have so...
Asian markets mostly fall ahead of U.S. holiday
TOKYO (AP) — Asian markets were mostly lower in cautious trading Monday ahead of a federal holiday in the U.S. Worries over inflation and risks of a global recession from central bank efforts to bring...
Small-Cap Stocks Have Gotten Crushed. Watch for Them to Rebound Soon.
Text size Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Small-company stocks have gotten hit hard—harder than their larger peers. That means small-caps could face less risk if the market continues to fall and more upside o...
Small-Cap Stocks Have Gotten Crushed. Their Rebound Could Be Swift.
Text size Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Small-company stocks have gotten hit hard—harder than their larger peers. That means small-caps could face less risk if the market continues to fall and more upside o...
Stock Market Has a Very Bad Week. Why It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better.
After a three-year hiatus, the Golden State Warriors are the best team in basketball again—and they had to navigate an injury-driven tumble from the top to the absolute bottom to do it. There’s a less...
$150 oil won’t cripple economy, market: J.P. Morgan’s Marko Kolanovic
J.P. Morgan’s Marko Kolanovic predicts oil is surging higher — but so are stocks. Kolanovic, who serves as the firm’s chief global markets strategist and co-head of global research, believ...