2023 will go down in history for the start of a new bull market, albeit a strange one. Despite some year-end catch-up by the rest of the S&P…
Read more The Magnificent 7 dominated 2023. Will the rest of the stock market soar in 2024?Yields on 3-month BX:TMUBMUSD03M and 6-month BX:TMUBMUSD06M Treasury bills have been seeing yields north of 5% since March when Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse ignited fears of a broader…
Read more Fed could be the Grinch who 'stole' cash earning 5%. What a Powell pivot means for investors.U.S. stocks closed mostly higher Friday, with major U.S. equity indexes booking a seventh straight week in the green in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting.…
Read more Dow nabs 3rd straight record close, S&P has longest weekly win streak in 6 yearsShares of Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +2.49% hiked up 2.4% afternoon trading Friday, toward its third record close in the past four sessions. The stock has now soared 12.6%…
Read more Microsoft stock surges toward another record close, has added about $308 billion in market cap in 11 daysU.S. stocks booked back-to-back gains on Monday, despite rising oil prices and a deadly weekend assault on Israeli by Hamas that left hundreds dead. The Dow Jones Industrial…
Read more U.S. stocks end higher despite climbing oil prices, Israel-Gaza warIt’s become a common refrain among those who believe the 2023 stock-market rally seems too good to last: by almost any measure one chooses, equity valuations in the…
Read more U.S. stocks are expensive by almost any measure. Here’s why they could keep rising anyway.U.S. stocks finished higher on Monday as investors look ahead to inflation data and corporate earnings later in the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.62% snapped…
Read more Dow snaps 4-day losing streak as investors await inflation data, earningsU.S. stocks finished lower on Friday, with the S&P 500 sliding for a third-straight day while all three major indexes kicked off the second half of 2023 with…
Read more U.S. stocks cap off losing week with third-straight drop as rate-hike worries rattle marketsTrading in U.S. stock option contracts has surged in 2023 as retail and institutional traders have harnessed bullish call options to chase a runaway rally in U.S. stocks,…
Read more Option demand explodes in June as investors use bullish bets to chase stock-market rallyIt is the notion that the Federal Reserve could deliver a hawkish jolt to markets even if it refrains from raising rates when its two-day policy meeting ends…
Read more How a hawkish Fed could kill a baby bull-market rally in U.S. stocksThe market capitalization of Apple Inc. has surpassed that of the entire Russell 2000 for two weeks, the longest stretch on record, according to Bloomberg data. Apple’s market…
Read more A stock-market milestone: Apple is now worth more than the entire Russell 2000Small-cap stocks have gotten hit hard recently. They look ready to take off again, and a few names stand out as particularly promising. As of midday on Monday,…
Read more Small-Cap Stocks Look Ready to Rally. Take a Look at These Two.U.S. stocks extended losses in the final hour of trade on Thursday, while awaiting Friday’s February employment data that could help decide how large an interest rate hike…
Read more Dow tumbles over 400 points in final hour of trade as investors await monthly employment reportIn November of 1901, a young German psychiatrist and neuroanatomist, Alois Alzheimer, found what appeared to be misfolded proteins forming sticky clumps, or plaques, between the neurons in…
Read more Why Don’t We Have a Cure for Alzheimer’s?BANGKOK (AP) — Shares rose Monday in Asia in thin post-Christmas holiday trading, with markets in Hong Kong, Sydney and several other places closed. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index…
Read more Asian shares rise in thin holiday trading, with U.S., European markets closedU.S. stocks are on track for their worst daily pullback in nearly a month on Monday as the S&P 500 traded below 4,000. Equity prices have been rattled…
Read more Dow falls 550 points, S&P 500 breaks below 4,000 as stocks head for worst day in nearly a month
