A new trading year kicked off just weeks ago. Already it bears little resemblance to the carnage of 2022. After languishing throughout last year, growth stocks have zoomed higher. Tesla Inc. and Nvidi...
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Deutsche Bank Faces Threat of Fines Over Money-Laundering Controls
Germany’s top financial watchdog threatened to fine Deutsche Bank AG if it doesn’t implement controls against money laundering by a set deadline, suggesting the regulator isn’t satisfied with the bank...
British Pound Falls to Lowest Level Since 1985 as U.K. Economic Pain Mounts
Updated Sept. 4, 2022 5:41 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) The British pound slid to its lowest level against the U.S. dollar since 1985, a reflection of the U.K. economy’s dire economic situation...
Europe Girds for Energy Market Turbulence After Russian Gas Cut
Listen to article (2 minutes) Governments in Sweden and Finland offered billions of dollars of guarantees to utilities to prevent a meltdown in energy trading when markets open Monday after Russia shu...
The Other Doomsday Scenario Looming Over Markets
By James Mackintosh Sept. 3, 2022 10:00 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Think inflation is the biggest threat to your investments? Perhaps not: One fund manager that successfully navigated the pas...
Ryan Cohen’s RC Ventures Sells Entire Stake in Bed Bath & Beyond
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Meme-Stock Investors Are Back! Sort of, Anyway
Individual investors have waded back into the stock market after laying low through the worst of this year’s selloff. But don’t call it a comeback yet. So-called retail investors in the last two week...
Euro Slips Below Dollar as Europe’s Economic Fortunes Slump
The euro’s slide below parity with the U.S. dollar reflects Europe’s sinking economic fortunes in the face of the war in Ukraine. But unlike the last time the euro was this weak 20 years ago, nobody i...
Dow Jumps More Than 800 Points as Fears of Interest-Rate Hikes Subside
Stocks rallied on Friday after fresh economic data tempered investors’ expectations of steep Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes, as major market indexes notched their first weekly gains after three c...
S&P 500 Poised for Bear Market as Stock Futures Drop
The S&P 500 was on track to open in bear market territory, while global stocks tumbled and bond yields jumped as fears over inflation rattled investors around the world. Futures for the S&P 50...
Stock Market Rises as S&P 500, Nasdaq Add More Than 6% This Week
The S&P 500 raced higher Friday, notching its best week of the year and snapping a punishing losing streak that had almost ended its bull market. A slew of earnings results and economic data has b...
Conditions Are Ripe for a Deep Bear Market
With the S&P 500 briefly on Friday down 20% from its January peak, it is very tempting to start trying to call the end of the selloff. The problem is that only one of the conditions for a rally is...
Stock Futures Fall as Bond Yields Edge Higher
U.S. stock futures fell to start the week, indicating that major equity indexes could decline again following last week’s big swings. Futures for the S&P 500 declined 1%. Contracts tied to the te...
Recession Looms, But Markets Haven’t Got the Message
After 28 trading days away from the markets*, I’ve come back to find that a new narrative of impending recession is quickly taking hold. Yet, look at the markets themselves and the story isn’t much re...