Fear of missing out, or FOMO, may be helping to drive stock-market gains as major indexes rebound from 2022 lows set in mid-June — but investor angst over potentially missing the “bottom” is usually m...
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Why BlackRock says the stock market’s big summer rally isn’t worth chasing
With U.S. stocks briefly sputtering to start the new week, strategists at the research arm of the world’s largest money manager are weighing in with words of caution. In a note released on Monday by t...
Ready to cash out some gains on this stock market run? An exit path is about to emerge, says this strategist
Welcome to moody Monday, with stock futures down and oil prices getting hit hard after a batch of downbeat data from China, alongside a surprise rate cut. Some say that the global growth engine’s econ...
Nasdaq bull market? A history of head fakes says it’s too early to celebrate.
Before passing out cigars in celebration of the birth of a baby bull market for the Nasdaq Composite, investors might want to take a look back at history. Sure, the tech-heavy gauge ended Wednesday up...
Why stock market bulls are cheering the S&P 500’s close above 4,231
The S&P 500 index on Friday finished above a chart level that delivered a dose of encouragement to stock-market bulls arguing that the U.S. bear-market bottom is in, though technical analysts warn...
Have stocks bottomed? Not until this ‘gorilla’ in equity markets budges, warns BofA
Households, not hedge funds or major corporations, represent the biggest class of owners of the U.S. stock market. That matters because households, the “placid gorilla” in U.S. stocks, haven’t cut and...
Why home prices can stay high, complicating the Fed’s battle against inflation
Sky-high housing prices still threaten to complicate the Federal Reserve’s inflation fight, even as America’s market for single-family homes shows signs of cooling in response to sharply higher intere...
Rivian: ‘Zombie’ company or charging down a path to EV success?
This a crucial time for car maker Rivian Automotive Inc., as it battles for its place in the competitive electric vehicle market. Rivian Automotive Inc.’s RIVN, +2.48% stock price has fallen 64.6% thi...
Don’t be fooled by a drop in U.S. headline inflation. Markets will be attuned to another figure on Wednesday.
Traders, investors and economists are all counting on Wednesday’s consumer-price index report to show a decline in the annual headline U.S. inflation rate for July. But there’s another figure buried i...
The red flag that preceded a halving of global equities in 2000 and 2007 is back, warns Citi
We are a day away from data that could prove a turning point for markets. If Wednesday’s CPI doesn’t reveal some slowing in prices, expectations will rise for a bigger Fed rate hike in September, poss...
Why the S&P 500’s ‘bounce within a bear market’ could fizzle before it hits 4,200
Add another voice to the growing chorus of naysayers about the staying power of the recent rally in U.S. equities. The stock market’s rally since the Federal Reserve’s last jumbo rate hike in late Jul...
A surging stock market is on the verge of signaling a ‘huge’ move — but there’s a catch
The pace of the stock market’s rise as it continues a bounce off the June lows is nearing a magnitude that’s preceded “huge” moves in the past. The dilemma for investors is that those moves can be in ...
Stock-market investors wrestle with ‘boomflation’ after hot July jobs report
The worry instead turned to what a rip-roaring labor market and surging costs for everything means for stocks and bond portfolios, particularly if it turns into a mix of higher growth and inflation wi...
Why Mark Mobius thinks U.S. stocks haven’t bottomed — and where he sees emerging-market opportunities
U.S. markets have provided plenty of excitement this year to keep investors on their toes. But as badly as U.S. and European stocks have performed since the start of the 2022, emerging-market equities...
Why the U.S. stock rally looks more like a new bull market than a bear bounce to these analysts
Broader is better when it comes to the stock market rally and some analysts see technical signs that gains may be signaling the end of the 2022 bear market, though it’s too early to say for sure. “The...
Beyond Meat’s cash burn is putting the stock at risk of falling to $0, warns New Constructs
Beyond Meat is the latest addition to the list of “zombie stocks” compiled by independent equity research firm New Constructs. The research firm, which uses machine learning and natural language proce...
Will the stock-market rally turn into a selloff? This bond-market gauge could tip investors off
Now that the Federal Reserve appears to have abandoned its forward guidance tool in favor of being “data dependent” to help inform its future path for rates, investors should keep an eye on this gauge...
Stock market’s post-Fed bounce is a ‘trap,’ warns Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson
“‘Ultimately, this will be a trap.’” — Mike Wilson, chief U.S. equity strategist and CIO, Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson, who correctly called the stock market’s 2022 swoon, isn’t convinc...
Surprise? How the stock market has reacted on day of each Fed rate hike in 2022
The Federal Reserve’s strategy of supersize interest rate hikes gets much of the blame for triggering a bear market in stocks in 2022, but investors might be surprised by a look back at how equites ha...
Here’s what Bill Ackman says Powell should tell traders about Fed rate-hike plans
“‘Tomorrow, Powell is likely to be asked: “Market pricing implies that the terminal FF rate will peak at 3.4% in 12/22 immediately declining thereafter to 2.7% by YE ‘23. What factors would cause the ...
Celsius customers write pleas to bankruptcy court to get crypto back: ‘This is an emergency situation, simply to keep a roof over my family and food on their table.’
Some customers of crypto lender Celsius Network, which filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, have written to the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, with a hope of getting their...
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 ...
Weekend reads: Prepare for a big week — a crucial Federal Reserve decision, tech-company earnings and a GDP report
It was mostly a week for stocks, particularly a rebound in the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index, as companies topped expectations on second-quarter earnings. The coming week brings a heavy dose of t...
Will the Federal Reserve kill the stock-market bounce?
A summer rebound is stirring hopes the bear market in U.S. stocks has seen its lows, but a meeting of Federal Reserve policy makers this coming week might test the nerves of would-be bulls. “I expect ...
Is the stock-market bottom in? What the pros say after S&P 500 tests 4,000
Stock-market bulls are poking their heads above the parapet, declaring the lows in for the 2022 selloff as indexes extend a bounce off their June lows, while skeptics still see little evidence of more...
Did the stock market ‘misinterpret’ Fed again? What strategists say about the reaction to the July minutes
Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s meeting in July — at which policy makers hiked the benchmark interest rate by 75 basis points, indicate stock-market participants were too quick to price in a “less ...