Is the Stock Market or Post Office Open Today? The Fourth of July Trading Hours.

Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images Text size Investors are likely getting out their hamburger buns—and putting away their stock trading apps—on Monday for Independence Day. This year, the Fourth of July...

Bitcoin Prices Struggle Below $20,000. Why Tuesday Could Bring a Bigger Move.

Text size Bitcoin has failed to consistently breach the key $20,000 mark. Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were largely unchanged on Monday, with digital assets contin...

Stock Market Today: U.S. Futures Wobble, Global Stocks Rise on July 4 Holiday

Text size Wall Street is closed for the Fourth of July. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images Global stocks were mostly higher and U.S. futures wavered on the Fourth of July. While it is set to be a quiet day...

Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are the Fourth of July Trading Hours.

Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images Text size Investors are likely getting out their hamburger buns—and putting away their stock trading apps—on Monday for Independence Day. This year, the Fourth of July...

GM, NIO, and 3 More of the Best Car Stocks for the Second Half of 2022

Text size The average automotive stock dived about 25% in the second quarter. Drew Angerer/Getty Images The first half of 2022 was painful for the automotive sector, with most car stocks dropping fart...

Stocks Had a Nasty 6 Months. The Second Half Could Be Ugly Too.

Text size Bond markets are pricing in significant additional interest-rate hikes this year, but some stock analysts’ earnings forecasts remain optimistic. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg It was a first half d...

What Could Be Ahead for Tesla in the Next Six Months

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently referred to his company’s two new automotive plants as “gigantic money furnaces.” Sean Gallup/Getty Images How many cars Tesla would deliver in...

Boeing and 7 More Industrial Stocks for the Second Half of 2022

Text size Industrial demand held up better than industrial stocks in the second quarter. Dreamstime The first half of 2022 was lousy for most stocks, including shares in the industrial sector. But tha...

The 60-40 portfolio is supposed to protect investors from volatility: so why is it having such a bad year?

The first half of 2022 has been a historically bad stretch for markets, and the carnage hasn’t been limited to stocks. As stocks and bonds have sold off in tandem, investors who for years have relied ...

General Mills and Micron Raised Their Dividends. Banks Will Soon, Too.

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images General Mills and Micron Technology declared dividend increases this week, and various large banks announced plans for their disbursements. General Mills (ticker...

The Best Income Investments Now

Income-oriented investors, it’s time to celebrate. There are suddenly many more opportunities—in areas ranging from junk bonds to real estate investment trusts—after the bear markets in stocks and bon...

Boeing Stock Gains Despite Airbus Win on China Jet Orders

Text size Competition between Boeing and Airbus has long been fierce, and will remain so. Scott Barbour/Getty Images Airbus started the second half of the year with a nice win, taking potential busine...

Forget the 1970s — this market is drawing comparisons to the 1870s

The current high inflation environment is often compared to the 1970s. But perhaps a more apt comparison would be to the 1870s. According to Bank of America, government bonds are on track for their wo...

NIO, XPeng and Li Auto Deliveries Set a Record. That Can Help Tesla Too.

Text size Production and demand for electric vehicles in China rebounded in June. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Investors in electric-vehicle stocks should breathe a sigh of relief on Friday. Production and de...

NIO stock jumps after June EV deliveries rise sharply from a last month and from last year

The U.S.-listed shares of NIO Inc. NIO, -0.64% jumped 2.4% in premarket trading Friday, after the China-based electric vehicle maker reported June deliveries that rose sharply from last month and from...

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...

Citi Lowered its S&P 500 Target. That Doesn’t Mean to Avoid Buying Stocks.

Text size Citigroup’s latest target for the S&P 500 represents a double-digit gain. Mario Tama/Getty Images Buying the market now could still pay off, even though strategists are more pessim...

Opinion: Stocks could drop 50%, Nouriel Roubini argues. Things will get much worse before they get better.

NEW YORK (Project Syndicate)—The global financial and economic outlook for the year ahead has soured rapidly in recent months, with policy makers, investors, and households now asking how much they sh...

Palo Alto Networks Shares Are Too Cheap, Morgan Stanley Says

Text size Palo Alto Networks is within one to two quarters of reaching profitability under generally accepted accounting principles. Dreamstime Palo Alto Networks shares have held up a little better t...

Coal miner stocks fall after Supreme Court ruling limiting EPA’s role

Coal miner stocks are falling, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling that restricts the U.S. government’s reach in controlling emission from coal-fired power plants. Shares of Peabody ...

SPX loses another 2.0% on Thursday: are we close to a bottom now?

Earnings estimates must come down for the S&P 500 to find a tradable bottom, says Cameron Dawson. She’s the Chief Investment Officer at NewEdge Wealth. Dawson’s remarks on CNBC’s...

Here’s why this trader is piling back into one of the year’s hottest commodities

The end of June is nigh and good riddance. Down about 7%, only March has delivered a win for S&P 500 SPX, -0.07% investors this year, as pandemic fallout has been compounded by Russia’s brutal and...

Chip Stocks Are in for Trouble, Analyst Says. 4 Stocks Get Downgrades.

Text size The iShares Semiconductor ETF has fallen even more than the overall market this year. Courtesy of Texas Instruments BofA Global Research is getting more downbeat about the chip industry. Eve...

This veteran money manager has seen it all. And these 19 dividend stocks pass his rigorous quality screen right now.

Lewis Altfest’s time in the finance industry spans seven decades. He has some words of advice for investors who aren’t used to stomach-churning stock-price moves. He founded Altfest Personal Wealth Ma...

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...

U.S. stock futures struggle for gains ahead of GDP data

U.S. stock futures struggled for direction on Wednesday, leaving Wall Street potentially on course for a third consecutive day of losses, as investors fret that soaring inflation is damaging the world...

Why the S&P 500 may be in for a 1966-style bear market, according to DWS Group

The S&P 500 has found good support recently and, while in a bear market, the large-cap index may not fall much further this year, said David Bianco, chief investment officer of the Americas for fu...

SOX semiconductor index could double over the next couple of years, analyst says

Despite potential for further downside, semiconductor stocks could rebound significantly over the next couple of years, according to Columbia Threadneedle Senior Equity Analyst Dave Egan. Semi stocks ...

How long will stocks stay in a bear market? It hinges on if a recession hits, says Wells Fargo Institute

When the S&P 500 officially dropped into a bear market on June 13, closing down more than 20% from its last peak, it stirred debate about whether investors should hold tight or think about buying ...

Amazon stock falls again after price target cut by 20% at UBS

Shares of Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -5.14% slumped 4.8% in afternoon trading Tuesday, adding to Monday’s 2.8% drop, after UBS analyst Lloyd Walmsley cut his stock price target to $167 from $209, cit...

Roivant, Pfizer unveil Priovant Therapeutics focused on autoimmune disease treatments, Roivant stock surges

Shares of Roivant Sciences Ltd. ROIV, -2.30% shot up 10.0% in premarket trading Tuesday, after the biopharmaceutical company and drug giant Pfizer Inc. PFE, +0.56% unveiled Priovant Therapeutics, a bi...

Why UPS Stock Could Be a Winner. Margins Are Improving.

Text size UPS CEO Carol Tome.. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Until recently, United Parcel Service operated a little like the New York Yan...