Topline The stock market reversed gains and moved lower on Thursday following comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who signaled aggressive interest rate hikes ahead while all but confirm...
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Stocks Fall, Rates Climb Ahead Of Big Earnings Week That Includes Netflix And Tesla
Topline The stock market moved lower on Monday—extending a recent losing streak—while rates surged ahead of a big week of quarterly earnings results, with investors remaining nervous about the impact ...
Recession Calls Grow As Inflation Threatens Corporate Earnings And Rising Costs Hit Consumers
Topline Despite a decent start for earnings season, Wall Street experts are increasingly warning that corporate profits are likely to take a hit as inflation remains a “headwind” to economic growth an...
Improve Your Portfolio’s Health By Investing In Health Care Stocks
Investors have weathered an incredible storm of volatility so far in 2022. The year started with a rapid surge of COVID driven by the Omicron variant, supply chain issues continued to plague the globa...
What’s Behind The Recent Dow Jones Stock Market Performance?
getty Key takeaways Last week, the stock market declined following the release of the Federal Reserve’s March meeting minutes The Dow Jones Industrial Average kicked off this week with additional loss...
Experts Believe Inflation May Have ‘Peaked,’ But Prices Will Remain Elevated This Year
Topline Despite consumer prices hitting a new four-decade high last month, the latest data show several signs that prices may be moderating slightly, with economists now predicting that inflation may ...
Markets Are Ignoring 8.5% Inflation Spike And Watching This Number Instead
Topline The stock market moved higher on Tuesday, even after consumer prices spiked 8.5% in the 12 months ending in March, as some investors hope that inflation is showing signs of moderating, with co...
Dow Falls 400 Points As 10-Year Treasury Yield Hits Highest Level Since January 2019
Topline Stocks fell on Monday as government bond yields surged—with the 10-year Treasury jumping above 2.7%, its highest level since January 2019—amid ongoing fears about inflation, with investors dum...
Buy The Australian Stock Market
AP Photo/Rick Rycroft ASSOCIATED PRESS April has been especially strong for the Australian stock market. Below, we see a monthly histogram for this average. Note that price has risen 78% of the time f...
Dow Jumps 300 Points, Oil Prices Fall After Ukraine-Russia Ceasefire Talks—But War Still Poses ‘Unsettling’ Risk For Stocks
Topline The stock market climbed for a fourth straight day Tuesday morning as promising geopolitical developments helped bolster investor sentiment and drive gains in recently struggling technology st...
Wall Street Firms Are Slashing S&P 500 Price Targets—Here’s What They Predict For Markets
Topline A majority of Wall Street’s biggest firms have recently been slashing their S&P 500 forecasts for this year, predicting lower stock market returns as the Federal Reserve raises interest ra...
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Says Russia-Ukraine War Is Upending World Order And Will End Globalization
Topline The war between Russia and Ukraine has heralded the end of globalization, as the conflict has upended the current world order that has been in place since the Cold War and will have lasting gl...
Dow Falls 400 Points As Supply Disruptions Send Oil Prices Surging Higher
Topline The stock market tumbled on Wednesday as oil prices spiked yet again due to supply disruptions from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and investors face renewed inflation fears even after the Fede...
Analysts Say These Stocks Can Rally 30% Or More As Investors Navigate A ‘Perfect Storm Of Headwinds’
Topline With markets getting whipsawed by concerns over inflation, rising interest rates and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, analysts at one of Wall Street’s biggest firms still see opportunities despit...
History Shows Investors Who Buy During Bear Markets Will Likely See Huge Gains
Topline Stocks have been flirting with correction territory in recent months–and though the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dipped into a bear market last week, historical data shows that investors ...
Stocks Jump As Investors Prepare For Bigger Fed Rate Hikes To Fight Inflation
Topline The stock market finished slightly higher and government bond yields surged on Tuesday as investors assessed the Federal Reserve’s more aggressive stance on fighting inflation, with a growing ...
Stocks Rise As Experts Call For Bigger Rate Hikes To Fight Inflation
Topline The stock market opened slightly higher and government bond yields surged on Tuesday as investors assessed the Federal Reserve’s more aggressive stance on fighting inflation, with a growing nu...
Dow Gains Nearly 300 Points As Stocks Wrap Up Best Week Since November 2020
Topline The stock market continued to rebound on Friday—with the S&P 500 notching its biggest weekly gain in more than a year—as investors react positively to the Federal Reserve’s latest interest...
Analysts Reveal Their Top Stock Picks To Beat Stagflation And Outperform Choppy Markets
Topline Stocks have had one of their worst starts to the year in history amid the looming threat of stagflation—persistently high inflation coupled with stagnant economic growth, but analysts say it’s...
Buffett Buys More Occidental Shares—Here’s How His Top Holdings Have Fared In This Year’s Brutal Market
Topline Billionaire investor Warren Buffett continues to see opportunities in the stock market despite a sell-off in recent months, recently snapping up more shares of energy company Occidental Petrol...
Federal Reserve’s Long-Awaited Rate Hike Is Here: Powell Announces 0.25% Increase
Topline The Federal Reserve announced a 0.25% interest rate hike on Wednesday—the first increase since 2018, while also forecasting a more-than-expected six additional hikes this year, as the central ...
Dow Jumps 400 Points As Stocks Continue To Rebound Ahead Of Federal Reserve Decision
Topline The stock market opened higher on Wednesday, adding to gains earlier this week, as investors await the Federal Reserve’s latest monetary policy decision, with the central bank expected to rais...
Most Wall Street Experts Now Predict Stagflation—Here’s What That Means For Investors And The U.S. Economy
Topline Professional investors are growing increasingly gloomy about the future, with the majority now predicting that stocks will fall into a bear market this year and the U.S. economy will be plague...
War And Markets: Madness But Normal
Reading of the horrors in Ukraine, I thought of Eckhart Tolle’s wise mantra about human folly: “It’s madness but it’s normal.” Indeed, war is madness but it’s all too normal. As a result, we have exte...
Amazon Is The Latest Mega-Cap To Announce Historic Stock Split, Here’s Who Might Be Next
Topline Amazon became the latest mega-cap tech giant to announce a stock split this week, and with shares rising on the news—much like Google-parent Alphabet after its split last month—experts predict...
Stumbling Stock Market At Precipice
Next stock market drop could unleash waterfall of selling getty Compared to their 2021 highs, stocks are a terrific bargain. The problem is they have already been a bargain at higher prices before. On...
Dow Falls 200 Points After Red-Hot Inflation Report And Failed Russia-Ukraine Talks
Topline Stocks fell once again on Thursday following another dismal inflation report—with consumer prices jumping 7.9% in February, while investors hoping for a resolution to the Russia-Ukraine confli...
Dow Falls 800 Points With No End In Sight For Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine
Topline The stock market moved sharply lower on Monday after oil prices briefly hit more than $130 per barrel overnight—the highest level since July 2008—as the escalating conflict between Russia and ...