Stocks Are Tumbling Again. Where the S&P 500 Might Be Headed Next.

Text size Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images The stock market is getting crushed again. The chances that it revisits its recent bottom are greater no...

Price To Economic Book Value Rose Through 8/12/22

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Stock Dividend Yields That Top What Treasuries Offer

Text size JPMorgan Chase headquarters in New York. Nina Westervelt/Bloomberg Bond yields have surged, making many dividend stocks less appealing. A quick look, however, shows that reliably high-yieldi...

Fed Hikes Rates By 75 Basis Points—Here’s Why It’s Not All Doom And Gloom For Investors

Near-term risks remain high, but investors who stay focused on the long-term have historically been rewarded. Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press In a widely expected move on Wednesday, the Federal R...

All Eyes On The Fed Today—And How To Handle Equity Market Volatility For Your Portfolio

Federal Reserve and Equity Markets photo credit: raymondjames.com Extreme market volatility—with the associated fear and greed—can lead investors to make emotional rather than logical decisions. And m...

Should You Still Hold Bonds?

NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 25: It’s been among the worst years ever for bond investments in many major … [+] markets, so do bonds still make sense in your portfolio? (Photo by Scott Hei...

Ford’s Big Earnings Warning Is Really Good News. Just Ask Wall Street.

Text size There is a silver lining in Ford’s ugly update for the third quarter of 2022. Leon Neal/Getty Images Ford Motor said a lack of parts and inflation would leave it with a third- quarter ...

The ‘Fear Trade’ Is in Effect, but the Early Stages Are Over

Text size An oil pumpjack operates near Ventura, Calif. Mario Tama/Getty Images The “fear trade” that emanates from destructive inflation is in effect, but it is starting to look less appealing. The f...

Operating Earnings Fall In 2Q22, Now Understate Core Earnings

Businessman trading online stock market on teblet screen, digital investment concept getty 2 2Q22 Operating Earnings calculated by S&P Global (SPGII THEPHANTOMMENACE ) for the S&P 500 dropped ...

‘Devastating Recession’— $1.5 Trillion Wipeout In Stock Market Can Be Just The Beginning As S&P 500, Nasdaq, And Dow Nosedive

Stock market AFP via Getty Images What’s up with the neck-breaking roller coaster in stocks? Last Tuesday, stocks broke a month-long bearish streak and launched into a rebound. Over a week, the S&...

Here’s What Happens To Stocks When The Fed Raises Rates By 100 Basis Points

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell Brendan Smialowski/Pool via ASSOCIATED PRESS Stocks have continued to struggle for direction since a hotter-than-expected inflation report earlier this week dragged...

Eni SpA And Eaton Corporation

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Street Earnings Overstated For 73% Of S&P 500 In 2Q22

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Investors Face 2 Serious Headwinds As Stocks And Bonds Perform Poorly In 2022

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Street Earnings Understated For 27% Of S&P 500 In 2Q22

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Fed Not Backing Down On Monetary Policy And Investors React To Apple Releases: Forbes AI Newsletter

Getty Images TL;DR The U.S. market performed well through the week, finishing up 1.76% on Thursday against five days earlier, and climbing over 1% higher in early trade on Friday Jerome Powell has mad...

IBM, CVS and 10 Other Stocks That Are Too Cheap Now

Text size IBM stock is one of a dozen cheap picks we’ve found in a screen. Miguel Medina/AFP via Getty Images This is looking like a throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater market. Take Tuesday tr...

This 9.9% Payer Is The Most Overlooked Dividend Trade Of 2022

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WACC Is Still A Drag In 2Q22

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Dow Jumps 200 Points As Investors Brace For August Inflation Report And More Fed Rate Hikes

Topline The stock market moved higher on Monday, extending recent gains ahead of a key inflation report this week, with investors hoping for more signs that high consumer prices have peaked as the Fed...

Inflation Could Be Harder to Tame Than the Fed Anticipates

Text size Another 75-basis-point hike in the federal-funds target is looking very, very likely. Ting Shen/Bloomberg Market participants returned from their summer holidays apparently undaunted by the ...

The Stock Market Had a Crazy Good Week. One Way to Make Sense of It All.

Text size Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Traders prefer a volatile market, and they’ve gotten one in 2022. Stocks have declined, rallied, and dropped again, driven by ever-evolving expectations for ...

Dow Jumps Over 300 Points As Investors Shake Off Rising Fears About More Fed Rate Hikes

Topline The stock market surged higher on Friday, with stocks on pace to snap a three-week losing streak as investors shook off Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s recent comments about more interes...

Price-To-Economic Book Value Holds Steady In 2Q22

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Stocks Rally Even After Powell Reiterates That Fed Will Keep Raising Rates

Topline The stock market rose slightly on Thursday even as recession fears continued and investors assessed comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who pledged that the central bank is “str...

Free Cash Flow Yield Posts Quarterly Decline In 2Q22

Free Cash Flow (FCF) writen on old paper with clip hanging. Acronym business concept. getty The S&P 500’s free cash flow (FCF) remains at a healthy above-average level on a trailing basis, but a d...

ROIC Climbs Higher Again In 2Q22

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Dow Falls Nearly 200 Points As ‘Gloomy’ Investors Brace For Higher Interest Rates

Topline The stock market fell in volatile trading on Tuesday, adding to sharp losses in recent weeks as investors assessed the latest round of better-than-expected economic data, which points to more ...

GAAP Earnings Fall Back To Reality In 2Q22

Businessman trading online stock market on teblet screen, digital investment concept getty 2Q22 GAAP earnings dropped from record highs in 1Q22 and are now lower than Core Earnings[1] for the first ti...

Wall Street Analysts Rate Stocks With a Variety of Labels. Here’s How to Read Them.

Text size Wall Street analysts slap Buy, Strong Buy, Sell, Underperform, Neutral or other labels on stocks Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Ratings can be confusing. Analysts slap Buy, Strong Buy, Sell, Underp...

Stock Market Rally ‘Is Over’ As Unemployment Starts Rising And Fears Intensify

Topline Despite new data signaling the Federal Reserve’s efforts to ease rising prices may be working, investors are becoming increasingly uncertain that inflation will fall enough to avoid a re...

Bull Market or Bear Market. Investors Are Trying to Decide

GMO’s Jeremy Grantham has warned of a ‘superbubble’ that’s about to burst. Lane Turner/The Boston Globe/Getty Images Text size Unlike traders, the most stressful part of my day comes at 4 p.m., just a...