Is the U.S. stock market closed today? What investors need to know on Juneteenth.

U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed Monday, June 20, in observance of the Juneteenth holiday, which commemorates the end of slavery in America. Officially known as the Juneteenth National Indep...

Stocks are still too expensive and rising rates may shock financial system, Seth Klarman warns

Investment legend Seth Klarman went back to his roots at the Harvard Business School to declare that the stock market is still too pricey even with its slide this year. “You’ve got a stock market that...

Asian markets mostly fall ahead of U.S. holiday

TOKYO (AP) — Asian markets were mostly lower in cautious trading Monday ahead of a federal holiday in the U.S. Worries over inflation and risks of a global recession from central bank efforts to bring...

Is the Stock Market Closed Today? Here Are the Hours for Juneteenth.

June 19, or Juneteenth, marks the end of slavery in the U.S. The U.S. designated the day a federal holiday in 2021. Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Text size The Juneteenth holiday wee...

The Fed Turns Aggressive as Inflation Meets Signs of an Economic Slowdown

Text size At the news conference following the rate hike, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell admitted that the policy-setting committee was taken aback by news of rising prices and weaker-than-expected retail...

Small-Cap Stocks Have Gotten Crushed. Watch for Them to Rebound Soon.

Text size Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Small-company stocks have gotten hit hard—harder than their larger peers. That means small-caps could face less risk if the market continues to fall and more upside o...

FedEx’s Dividend Hike Stands Out

Text size FedEx trucks at a sorting facility Justin Sullivan/Getty Images FedEx grabbed the headlines this week for dividend announcements, declaring an increase of more than 50% to its quarterly payo...

What the Fed’s biggest rate hike in decades means for the bear market in bonds

Historically bad. That’s how the mammoth $53 trillion U.S. fixed-income market has performed this year as the Federal Reserve works to curtail high inflation threatening to wreck the economy. To turbo...

Stock Market Today: The Dow Edged Higher, While Tech Stocks Rallied

Text size A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Spencer Platt/Getty Images The stock market largely gained on Friday, closing out a volatile week of trading. Stability in the bon...

‘The Profit’ Star Marcus Lemonis Scooped Up Camping World Stock

Text size Marcus Lemonis, of the CNBC show “The Profit,” says RV company Camping World is “the most important thing” in his life. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Camping World Holdings stock has tumbled in 20...

Citigroup Stock Is the Cheapest of the Big Banks. It’s Ready to Take Off.

Text size Even Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has been buying Citi stock, a vote of confidence if there ever was one. Mario Tama/Getty Images Bank stocks have gotten hit as concerns about the U.S...

Small-Cap Stocks Have Gotten Crushed. Their Rebound Could Be Swift.

Text size Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Small-company stocks have gotten hit hard—harder than their larger peers. That means small-caps could face less risk if the market continues to fall and more upside o...

Markets Won’t Sink Forever. Asset Manager Stocks Are a Cheap Play on a Rebound.

Asset-management stocks have been hit hard this year in the market selloff, with some down 35% to 45%, almost double the decline in the S&P 500 index. No industry is more directly tied to stock an...

Stock Market Has a Very Bad Week. Why It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better.

After a three-year hiatus, the Golden State Warriors are the best team in basketball again—and they had to navigate an injury-driven tumble from the top to the absolute bottom to do it. There’s a less...

Bitcoin crash ‘absolutely’ a buying opportunity, Michael Saylor says

“‘Nobody has ever lost money investing in bitcoin for four years.’” That was MicroStrategy MSTR, +3.88% CEO and bitcoin BTCUSD, -6.27% optimist Michael Saylor talking about the recent dip in bitcoin p...

History says the next bull market is just months away, and it could carry the S&P 500 to the 6,000 level, according to Bank of America

When it comes to bear markets, investors can take comfort from history, which suggests that where there’s a beginning, there’s always an end. And according to Bank of America, investors have only got ...

Alibaba, NIO stocks soar after report Ant Group OK’d to set up financial holding company

The U.S.-listed shares of China-based companies were seeing big and broad gains in premarket trading Friday, after Reuters reported that China’s central bank accepted Ant Group’s applicati...

Fed Rate Hikes Will End Sooner Than You Think. What That Means for Stocks.

Text size Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate increases can only last so long. The stock market could experience some relief...

AT&T stock heads for longest losing streak since 2020

Shares of AT&T Inc. T, -2.47% are down 3.4% in Thursday afternoon trading and on track to log a decline for the seventh-straight trading session. That would mark the stock’s longest losing s...

Wall Street is officially in a bear market: What strategists say investors should do

The U.S. stock market met popular criteria for a bear market this week as the latest declines by the S&P 500 took the U.S. large-cap benchmark down by more than 20% from its record close in Januar...

Apple Stock Has Dropped 25%. This Analyst Says It’s Still the Best Bet in Tech.

Text size Morgan Stanley cut its price target on Apple stock. Dreamstime Morgan Stanley is preparing for a slowdown in consumer spending on tech hardware, slashing target prices on stocks across the s...

Retirees Should Gird for a Long Run of High Inflation. Here’s How.

Retirees and seniors who are feeling the pinch of higher prices could be in for a long struggle as inflation shows few signs of peaking. But financial experts say there are some smart strategies that ...

‘The economy is going to collapse,’ says Wall Street veteran Novogratz. ‘We are going to go into a really fast recession.’

Veteran investor and bitcoin bull Michael Novogratz doesn’t have a rosy outlook on the economy, which he described as headed for a substantial downturn, with the likelihood of a “fast recession” on th...

Why stocks and bonds went into relief-rally mode after Fed’s jumbo rate hike

Financial markets suffered an absolute bloodbath in the days leading up to Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision, with stocks plunging and bond yields soaring in the wake of surprisingly hot inflation ...

Caterpillar’s Headquarters Are Moving to Texas

Caterpillar has had a presence in Texas since the 1960s, according to the firm, but Illinois remains the largest concentration of Caterpillar employees. Dreamstime Text size Caterpillar is moving head...

FedEx Raises Dividend, Stock Jumps 9%. Is ‘New Day Dawning?’

FedEx stock is soaring after the company announced a dividend increase. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Text size FedEx stock was soaring after the delivery company raised its dividend and said it would ad...

Opinion: Those who buy stocks the day the S&P 500 enters a bear market have made an average of 22.7% in 12 months

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Good news, investors: Wall Street is holding a sale, offering stocks at 20% off! You’re not interested? That just means you only talk the talk about being a contrarian investor, bu...

Read for the Fed Preview. Stay for the Trouble Brewing in the Mortgage Market.

Recent inflation data are something of a game-changer for monetary policy. Expectations for what will come out of the Federal Reserve’s meeting this week and beyond have quickly ratcheted higher, spel...

Bitcoin down 70% from all-time high. Why is crypto market crashing?

Cryptocurrencies have been crashing. Bitcoin BTCUSD, -3.21% plunged to as low as $20,834 late Monday, the lowest level since December 2020 and down about 70% from its all-time high in November. The No...

Strategist who nailed the recent S&P 500 top says three things are needed for a market bottom

Wariness is in order after the S&P 500’s bear-market finish and a potential 75 basis-point Fed hike just one day away. Gains for stock futures and a potential bounce are fading fast. Morgan Stanle...

The Bear Market Is Officially Here. How You Could Still Profit Nicely Over Time.

Text size The S&P 500 entered bear territory just 111 trading days since its Jan. 3 record high. Spencer Platt/Getty Images The S&P 500 is in a bear market. History says it will probably get w...