Stocks are rebounding on the heels of a rotten week — the worst since December for the S&P 500 SPX, +1.15% and the Nasdaq Composite COMP, +1.39%. And as Wall Street analysts go dark, with talk of ...
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Asian shares follow Wall Street lower after stronger-than-expected data
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares fell Monday in Asia after Wall Street benchmarks closed out their worst week since early December. U.S. futures edged higher while oil prices fell. Reports on inflation, the jobs...
What’s next for stocks as investors realize Fed’s inflation fight won’t end soon
The stock market is ending February on a decidedly wobbly note, raising doubts about the durability of an early 2023 rally. Blame stronger-than-expected economic data and hotter-than-expected inflatio...
Global financial markets have had a rough time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but it is not over yet
A year after Russia invaded Ukraine and set off the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II, global financial markets seem to no longer carry on the lasting shocks on a daily basis, but the fu...
Sellas Life Sciences raises $20 million from public offering of stock, warrants
Sellas Life Sciences Group Inc. SLS, -53.25% said Friday that it raised $20.0 million, through the public sale of common shares and warrants to buy stock. Shares of the biopharmaceutical company, whic...
Cingulate stock skyrockets after ADHD treatment shows positive trial results
Shares of Cingulate Inc. CING, +51.30% skyrocketed 82.9% toward an 11-month high in active premarket trading Friday, after the biopharmaceutical company reported positive results from a trial of its a...
Bed Bath & Beyond stock falls again, has plunged more than 70% during a 12-day stretch in which it has declined 11 times
Shares of Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY, -7.12% took a 6.8% beating Thursday, which put them on track for a third-straight loss and a seven-week closing low. The stock has shed 16.6% over the past t...
The bond market’s worst-case scenario isn’t a Fed rate of 6%. It’s this.
A doomsday scenario for bonds in 2023 wouldn’t be the fed-funds rate reaching 6% by July. A bigger worry would be if U.S. inflation that’s been slow to retreat starts heading higher annually, said Jas...
Stock market saw worst day of 2023 because it’s unclear where rates will peak
Rising Treasury yields appeared Tuesday to finally catch up with a previously resilient stock market, leaving the Dow Jones Industrial Average and other major indexes with their worst day so far of 20...
‘Not a time to buy’: S&P 500 exiting ‘best era’ in decades for earnings growth amid ‘dried up’ liquidity
The U.S. stock market, as measured by the S&P 500 index, appears to be exiting the “best era” for growth in earnings per share in decades as sources of liquidity have dried up, according to resear...
Invest right now in the stock market? Why bother when cash could be king
The harder question for investors nearly a year into the Federal Reserve’s inflation fight is whether buying the dip in stocks is wise, or earning a cool 5% yield on safe-haven Treasury bills, a cash ...
‘The risk is that we’re going to hit the brakes very, very hard,’ Larry Summers says
“‘The risk is that we’re going to hit the brakes very, very hard.’ ” — Larry Summers Almost a full year of monetary-policy tightening by the Federal Reserve appears to be having little impact on price...
Bed Bath & Beyond falls toward 8th-straight loss, the longest such streak in 3 months
Shares of Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY, -6.74% sank 6.5% in afternoon trading Thursday, to put them on track for an eighth straight decline. The losing streak comes after the stock rocketed 92.1% o...
Dow falls 400 points as stocks suffer worst drop in a month after PPI data, Fed comments
U.S. stocks suffered their worst drop in a month on Thursday after hotter-than-expected data on wholesale prices and talk of more aggressive interest-rate hikes rattled markets. The S&P 500 SPX, -...
A potential stock-market catastrophe in the making: Risky option bets put Wall Street on edge
Professional and amateur traders are flocking to a risky type of equity option that some have likened to lottery tickets, drawn by the opportunity to reap massive returns in the span of just a few hou...
Occidental Petroleum stock surges after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway discloses boosting stake to 28%
Shares of Occidental Petroleum Corp. OXY, +2.44% rallied 1.8% in afternoon trading Tuesday, after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK.B, -0.94% BRK.A, -0.84% disclosed that it increased its s...
Avaya files for bankruptcy, about 5 years after emerging from previous bankruptcy
Avaya Holdings Corp. said Tuesday that it and all of its U.S. subsidiaries filed for bankruptcy, a little more than five years after emerging from its previous bankruptcy. The business communication c...
The peak of this market rally is almost here, says JPMorgan. Time to ditch U.S. stocks, and buy these instead, says Wall Street giant.
Roses are red, violets are blue, will CPI turn into the stock market’s Waterloo? The inflation data showed higher prices remain sticky, even if overall pressure eased a bit. The stock market seems to ...
Why January’s CPI report could deal a massive blow to the stock market
The stock market’s start-of-year rally is poised to fizzle if a highly-anticipated U.S. inflation report on Tuesday dashes hopes for a quicker retreat in the cost of living in America, warned market a...
Axsome’s stock falls after disclosing Teva’s plans to market generic Auvelity
Shares of Axsome Therapeutics Inc. AXSM, +0.49% tumbled about 10.0% in premarket trading on Monday after the company said in a securities filing that Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. TEVA, +0.34% i...
Here are five companies to pick if Goldman Sachs is right about the stock market being flat in 2023
Hearts, flowers and CPI data. Get ready for Tuesday. And hell hath no fury like a disappointed Wall Street. The last time CPI let the markets down — last September — stocks melted down like chocolate....
Inflation data rocked the stock market in 2022: Get ready for Tuesday’s CPI reading
Few things moved the U.S. stock market last year like inflation data and the next reading is due this week. Under the spotlight is the January consumer price index, which is set to be released at 8:30...
Traders brace for a blowup as cost of protection for U.S. stocks hits highest level since October
The cost of hedging against another equity market blowup has risen to its highest level since October as investors brace for a surge in volatility as U.S. stocks head for their worst week in nearly tw...
Why the stock market’s ‘FOMO’ rally stalled out and what will decide its fate
A torrid, tech-led stock-market rally stalled out this past week as investors began to come around to what the Federal Reserve has been telling them. Bulls, however, see room for stocks to continue th...
AMC stock soars more than 13% a day before quarterly results
Shares of AMC Entertainment Inc. AMC, +22.74% surged 13.6% toward a 12-week high in afternoon trading Monday, a day before the movie theater operator is scheduled to report fourth-quarter results. Wed...