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Stock Market Today: Dow Rises, Fed Decision Ahead, Alibaba and JD.com Soar
Text size Fed Chair Jerome Powell will host a press conference at 2:30 p.m. Eastern. Graeme Jennings / POOL/AFP via Getty Images Stocks were moving higher Wednesday as markets readied for a long-await...
How the stock market ‘fear index’ works
The volatility index, also known as the VIX, essentially takes a reading of the stock market’s blood pressure, measuring investors’ fear. The VIX can spike when investor concerns are heigh...
Charts suggest the S&P 500 is poised for a short-term bounce
Technical analyst Carolyn Boroden thinks the S&P 500 may soon see a short-term rally, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. “The charts, as interpreted by Carolyn Boroden, suggest that the S...
Forecasters sees growing chance of a recession as Fed hikes rates this year to fight inflation
US Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell, testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress,” in Washington, DC, on March ...
Ford Stock Is Down For a Very Odd Reason. No, Production Guidance Wasn’t Cut.
Auto investor nerves are frayed as they deal with Russia, inflation and the persistent chip shortage. Scott Olson/Getty Images Text size Automotive News incorrectly reported over the weekend that Ford...
GE Builds 350-Ton Turbines at Its Power Facilities. Here’s What We Found on a Tour.
Text size 7HA.03 gas turbine in GE’s Greenville, S.C., factory. Courtesy GE Power General Electric led a tour of one of its South Carolina gas power facilities as part of its Investor Day on Thursday—...
Berkshire Hathaway Bought Back About $2 Billion of Stock This Year
Text size Warren Buffett. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway bought back about $2 billion of stock in the first quarter through early March, Barron’s estimates. Our estimate is based ...
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 ...
Rivian Stock Slumps After Earnings. Wall Street Says Buy the Dip Of Course.
Text size Courtesy Rivian If we learned anything from Rivian Automotive earnings and the reaction of the stock, it’s that the company’s production ramp-up isn’t happening fast enough for the market. W...
Tesla’s China Sales Dropped. Tesla Stock Rose Anyway.
Text size Tesla delivered 56,515 vehicles from its Chinese plant in February. Sam Yeh /AFP via Getty Images Tesla sales from its plant in Shanghai fell in February from January, following the pattern ...
Tesla Bears, Watch Out. How the Stock Could Rise Like Apple’s Did.
Text size Tesla’s factory in Fremont, Calif. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images Anyone bearish on Tesla stock should consider this: A lot of portfolio managers are underweight Tesla stock. Correc...
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...
Cathie Wood Got Oil Wrong. It Isn’t Going to $12. Here’s What She Missed.
ARK Invest’s Cathie Wood predicted in 2020 that oil prices were headed to $12 a barrel. The prediction wasn’t correct, providing a lesson in commodity investing. Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg Tex...
Berkshire Hathaway’s Market Cap Climbs. It Could Soon Overtake Tesla.
Text size Berkshire Hathaway currently is the sixth most valuable stock in the S&P 500. Photograph by Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg Tesla is the fifth most valuable stock in the S&P 500. But Warren ...
How to know when oil prices will cause a recession, what to invest in
With the national average for a gallon of gas hitting its highest price since 2008 and the stock market on edge with the first land war in Europe since WWII being waged by one of the world’s big...
Analysts Are Cutting Meta Targets. But They Can’t Keep Up With the Falling Stock.
Text size Investors fled shares of the social-media giant after its fourth-quarter earnings report. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Another analyst slashed his price target for shares of Facebook par...