It’s all eyes on federal banking regulators as investors sift through the aftermath of last week’s market-rattling collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. The name of the game — and the key to a near-term ma...
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Why the stock-market rally can keep going, says Morgan Stanley strategist who only recently warned of a death zone
On the heels of last week’s losing-streak breaking rally, investors look headed for the sidelines on Monday. Apart from an underwhelming growth forecast from China over the weekend that’s knocking oil...
How to invest in the stock market and never lose money
Fixed index annuities are not the only way you can invest in the stock market and be assured of not losing money over the short term. That’s because there’s a do-it-yourself alternative that avoids th...
Stock-market believers say ‘stage still set’ for U.S. economy to accelerate in second half of year
Stock-market believers are looking past the roughest stretch in months for US equities and clinging to bets on a rally in the back half of the year once the Federal Reserve stops hiking interest rates...
A Second-Half Stock-Market Rally Is Still in Play Despite Rout
(Bloomberg) — Stock-market believers are looking past the roughest stretch in months for US equities and clinging to bets on a rally in the back half of the year once the Federal Reserve stops h...
The bond market’s worst-case scenario isn’t a Fed rate of 6%. It’s this.
A doomsday scenario for bonds in 2023 wouldn’t be the fed-funds rate reaching 6% by July. A bigger worry would be if U.S. inflation that’s been slow to retreat starts heading higher annually, said Jas...
Invest right now in the stock market? Why bother when cash could be king
The harder question for investors nearly a year into the Federal Reserve’s inflation fight is whether buying the dip in stocks is wise, or earning a cool 5% yield on safe-haven Treasury bills, a cash ...
Alibaba’s $46 Billion Stock-Market Swoon Tests Investors’ Love
(Bloomberg) — After months of exhilarating gains as hedge funds piled in and analysts upgraded target prices, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s stock is losing its mojo and leading the decline in Chi...
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...
How to retire rich — even if you just got wiped out
The Wall Street Journal published an article over the weekend about all the millennials and Generation Z “zoomers” who have fled the markets after getting crushed in the 2022 rout. One was 25-year-old...
The stock-market rally survived a confusing week. Here’s what comes next.
Despite a Friday stumble, stocks ended a turbulent week with another round of solid gains, keeping 2023’s young but robust stock-market rally very much alive. But a cloud of confusion also sets over t...
‘Big Short’ Burry Suggests the Stock-Market Jump Is a Mirage
Michael Burry is a historic figure in investing. Many retail investors check his every word and social-media post in hopes of finding clues to good investment strategy. His stock portfolio is scrutin...
Genius Group CEO on why his company is fighting back against naked short sellers — and it’s not alone
“It’s like being robbed in a library, but you can’t shout ‘Thief!’ because there are ‘Silence, please’ signs everywhere.” That’s how Roger Hamilton, chief executive of Genius Group Ltd. GNS, +55.02%, ...
Bonds say inflation has peaked, but here’s what Cathie Wood says the stock market needs to hear to stage a bona fide rally
Bullish stock investors have gotten punched in the month so far this week, after a relatively cheery kickoff to 2023 following an ugly 2022. Cathie Wood, however, has some thoughts about what might tr...
Stock-market rally looks ‘unsustainable’ as S&P 500 enters ‘new, lower valuation regime,’ warns Citi
This year’s stock-market rally has pushed the S&P 500 index to valuation levels that make it difficult for the index to climb much higher based on the current macroeconomic environment, according ...
History shows odds favor a 20% stock-market return in 2023 after a brutal 2022, Fundstrat says
Historical data shows there is a high chance that the U.S. stock market may record a return of 20% or more this year after the three major indexes closed 2022 with their worst annual losses since 2008...
Stock-market investors face 3 recession scenarios in 2023
With the U.S. stock market on track for its biggest annual decline in over a decade, fears that efforts by the Federal Reserve and other major central banks to bring down a surge in inflation will spa...
Is a 2023 stock-market rebound in store after 2022 selloff? What history says about losing years.
History shows back-to-back losing years for the stocks are rare — but the size of the market’s drop in 2022 with no sign the Federal Reserve is ready to ride to the rescue means investors should bewar...
Why stock-market investors shouldn’t count on a ‘Santa Claus’ rally this year
Investors, like kids on Christmas Eve, have come to expect Santa Claus will get down the chimney, march over to Wall Street and deliver the rewarding gift of a stock-market rally. This year, however, ...
Here’s where investors made a ‘risk-free’ 6.6% return in the past four U.S. recessions
Who says bonds can’t be flashy? Investing in the nearly $24 trillion U.S. Treasury market and other forms of government-backed debt could be a good bet next year, particularly if another recession hit...
Year-end rally? Bullish stock-market pattern set to collide with stagflation fears
The period between now and year-end marks a historically bullish final stretch of the year for U.S. stocks, particularly just before and after Christmas. The question for investors is whether favorabl...
Is the stock market open on Black Friday? Thanksgiving week trading hours for major assets.
It’s going to be a short week on Wall Street. U.S. stock exchanges will be closed for Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, Nov. 24, and will reopen the next day only for an abbreviated session on Black Frida...
Apple’s $191 Billion Single-Day Surge Sets Stock-Market Record
(Bloomberg) — Apple Inc.’s surge Thursday was one for the record books. Most Read from Bloomberg The world’s most valuable company added $190.9 billion in market value, the most ever by a US-lis...
One reason the rich get richer
Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald disagreed about the rich. Fitzgerald, who had stars in his eyes, supposedly said, “The rich are different from the rest of us.” “Yes,” repli...
Here’s strong new evidence that a U.S. stock-market rally is coming soon
Yet another piece of the investor-sentiment puzzle is falling into place to support a sizeable U.S. stock-market rally. I’m referring to an index that measures investors’ confidence that any market di...
New stock-market lows ahead? What investors need to know as Fed signals rates will be higher for longer.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sent a clear signal interest rates will move higher and stay there longer than previously anticipated. Investors wonder if that means new lows for the beaten-dow...
What Fed Chair Powell can say to keep the stock-market rally going — or kill it
Whatever Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says when he steps up to the podium on Wednesday will likely have ramifications for financial markets. But what do equity investors need to hear from th...
Opinion: Where’s the bull market? Stock-market investors aren’t buying it.
Have Joe and Joanna Q. Public been buying the stock-market rally of the past five months? Not according to our data. Instead, they show that ordinary investors have been bailing out of stock funds for...