Stock-market investors should not blindly follow the established narratives suggesting rising Treasury yields usually spook technology and growth stocks but focus on underlying economic trends which a...
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A Sideways Stock Market and the Case for Selling in March
Investors have heard the dictum “sell in May and go away.” This year they might want to consider selling in March. The May adage follows from market seasonality. Historically, investors have realized ...
‘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...
The S&P 500’s Rally Is in Question. It Doesn’t Mean Stocks Will Plunge.
Investors just don’t feel confident about stocks’ rally over the past few months, but the market could still hold up well this spring. The S&P 500 has risen about 15% since early October, when it ...
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...
Deere Earnings Are Coming. The Stock Needs a Beat.
Agricultural machinery giant Deere reports its fiscal first-quarter earnings Friday morning. Investors could really use a “beat-and-raise” quarter from the company. Deere stock (ticker: DE) outperform...
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...
Stock Market Has Worst Week of 2023. No News Is Bad News.
It’s the middle of February, and the stock market finally seems caught in the winter doldrums. There may be more gray days ahead. Even the most optimistic investors will admit that January’s blisterin...
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...
Big Oil’s Big Paradox: Record Profits, Low Stock Valuations
Big Oil has never been more profitable, but it has hardly ever been a smaller part of the stock market. That’s enough to make industry executives feel unappreciated. “We’re grossly undervalued,” says ...
Strong Economic Data Weaken the Case for Continued Stock Rally
The dash for trash has hit a speed bump. Stocks faltered again this past week as the early-year rally, led by rebounds in 2022’s speculative-grade losers, ran into resistance from higher expected inte...