Topline Despite a solid February jobs report, the stock market fell once again Friday—with the Dow posting its fourth straight week of losses—as surging oil prices neared $120 per barrel amid the esca...
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3 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make In Volatile Markets
Navigating a downturn in the financial markets is as much about what you don’t do as it is what you … [+] do. getty Investing through market volatility can be challenging. Should you go to...
Dow Jumps 700 Points, Oils Hits 11-Year High As ‘Investors Are Whipsawed’ By Rate Hikes And Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Topline The stock market jumped on Wednesday—despite oil prices skyrocketing to their highest level since 2011 amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told Congress...
Dow Falls 600 Points, Oil Prices Surge As Russia-Ukraine Conflict Continues To Roil Markets
Topline The stock market plunged on Tuesday—with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling roughly 600 points, while oil prices surged to new seven-year highs as Russia escalated its attacks on several...
Economic Fallout From Russia’s Invasion Will Be ‘Modest’—But Inflation Will Surge Higher, This Expert Predicts
Topline While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is taking a “massive” human toll, the global economic fallout is likely to remain “modest,” according to a recent note from Moody’s Analytics chief economist...
Dow Falls 400 Points As Investors Weigh Latest Sanctions On Russia
Topline Stocks fell on Monday, with the Dow dropping roughly 400 points, as a fresh round of Western sanctions slammed Russia’s financial markets, though the market’s losses were tempered by reports t...
So How High Will Interest Rates Go? Not Really That High
Rates are on the rise. getty It’s axiomatic that higher interest rates are no friend of stock prices, especially those of tech firms. But how onerous will those rate hikes be? Not very. Right now, the...
Why Investors Shouldn’t Worry (Much) About The Ukraine Invasion
Ukranian tanks. (Photo by Sergey BOBOK / AFP) (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images War, for those embroiled in one, is mankind at its worst. While the carnage of Russia’s ...
Dow Jumps 800 Points After Russia Says It’s Open To Talks With Ukraine
Topline The stock market jumped on Friday, with the Dow surging roughly 800 points—on track for its best day so far in 2022—amid reports that Russia is open to negotiating with Ukraine, even as Russia...
Russian Stock Market Loses 1/3 Of Its Value Following Attack On Ukraine
Russia – Ukraine War getty Russian President Vladimir Putin’s calculated intentional attack on the sovereign nation of the Ukraine has sent the Russian stock market tumbling by more than 35% in ...
Dow Drops 700 Points, Nasdaq Falls Into Bear Market After Russia Invades Ukraine
Topline The stock market plunged on Thursday, with all three major indexes opening more than 2% lower after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, a move which caused oil prices to rise to over $100 per barr...
S&P 500 Falls Deeper Into Correction Territory As Ukraine Declares State Of Emergency
Topline The stock market plunged again on Wednesday—with the S&P 500 falling deeper into correction territory—after the Pentagon warned a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine could happen immine...
Investors Vote With Their Money In Favor Of Private Capital Hybrid Hedge Funds
It’s no secret that investors have been disappointed with hedge fund performance in recent years. As a group, hedge funds again underperformed the major stock market indices during the fourth qu...
Russian Aggression And Recent Market Turmoil
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends his New Year address to Russians in central Moscow on … [+] December 31, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Alexey NIKOLSKY (Photo credit should read ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/AF...
‘Peak Stupid’—Cataclysmic Market Warning Issued As The Price Of Bitcoin And Ethereum Crash
Bitcoin, ethereum and other cryptocurrency prices have crashed as the crisis in Ukraine rattles global investors. Subscribe now to Forbes’ CryptoAsset & Blockchain Advisor and discover hot n...
Stocks Fall For Second Week In A Row As Russia-Ukraine Tensions Weigh On Markets
Topline The stock market fell on Friday—with the Dow Jones Industrial Average wrapping up its second straight week of losses—as investors remain on edge about ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukrai...
Stock Market Losses Grow As Russia-Ukraine Tensions Reach A ‘Crucial Moment’
Topline Markets plunged yet again on Thursday as top federal officials warned that tensions between Russia and Ukraine had reached a “crucial moment” with an invasion likely “imminent,” leading nervou...
Meme Trading Is Not Dead—It Will Continue To Rile Markets
Of all the trends that have emerged out of the pandemic, one of the most watched in the financial arena was the rise of meme stocks. Online traders, often young and inexperienced, banded together via ...
Dow Plunges Over 400 Points, Oil Prices Surge Amid Fears That Russia Will Soon Invade Ukraine
Topline Markets plunged Friday after the White House said Russia could invade Ukraine “any day now,” including during this month’s Winter Olympics, a prospect which led panicked investors to dump stoc...
Dow Plunges 500 Points As ‘Market Anxiety’ Returns After Latest Inflation Surge
Topline The stock market plunged on Thursday after a worse-than-expected inflation reading—with consumer prices spiking 7.5% in January—raised investor concerns that the Federal Reserve could tighten ...
‘Market Anxiety’ Returns After Latest Inflation Surge, 10-Year Treasury Jumps Above 2%
Topline The stock market fell in volatile trading on Thursday after a worse than expected inflation reading—with consumer prices spiking 7.5% in January—raised investor concerns that the Federal Reser...
Stocks Jump After U.S. Economy Adds Back 467,000 Jobs In January
Topline The stock market jumped on Friday while bond yields surged after the U.S. economy added back a much higher-than-expected 467,000 new jobs in January, a sign to investors that the Federal Reser...
Stocks Fall, Bond Yields Surge After U.S. Economy Adds Back 467,000 Jobs In January
Topline The stock market fell on Friday while bond yields surged after the U.S. economy added back a much higher-than-expected 467,000 new jobs in January, a sign to investors that the Federal Reserve...
Elon Musk And The Other Billionaires Whose Fortunes Fell This Week As Tech Stocks Continue To Struggle
THE CHANGING FORTUNES OF THE WORLD’S RICHEST The founders of Tesla, Oracle and Airbnb lost billions of dollars this week amid surging market volatility and continued pressure on tech stocks. D espite ...
Here Are The Biggest Losing Stocks In The Market’s Worst Month Since March 2020
Topline The stock market is having one of the worst starts to a year ever—with big names like Moderna and Netflix leading declines—as many of the pandemic-era’s top stocks continue to fall out of favo...
Stocks Jump After Federal Reserve Confirms March Interest Rate Hike To Fight Surging Inflation
Topline The stock market ticked higher on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve reassured investors that it would “soon” begin raising interest rates in March as it looks to combat a decades-high surge ...