After their worst drop in two years, stocks bounced back with the Dow and the S&P 500 gaining all five days to gain more than 4% on the week. The tech-heavy Nasdaq, which was the only losing among the major averages on Friday, paced gains for the week, rising 5%. In the week ahead, a […]
Democrats are emphasizing companies’ stock buybacks to help make their case against the GOP tax law ahead of the midterm elections. The law is becoming more popular with the public and companies are touting employee bonuses, putting Democrats in a tough spot. That’s led them to highlight stock repurchasing announcements, which they say show the […]
So the stock market once again has gone through the wringer. It won’t be the first sudden tumble and it won’t be the last. No two retreats are exactly the same, but most fit within certain patterns. The details always are different, but common themes often repeat. One thing to remember is that periodic market […]
It can’t be this easy, can it? Just a week ago, the Standard & Poor’s 500 index had barely avoided dropping below its long-term average after officially correcting. But since Feb. 8, when the benchmark closed down 10.16% from its all-time high reached on Jan. 26, it has done nothing but go up. Last week, […]
Yes, the markets are marching back from their bone-rattling drop, but don’t think that everything is “back to normal.” There’s a new normal in town now. The U.S. has a new board chair of the Federal Reserve and the era of quantitative easing is over. And it’s not just over in the U.S., the past […]
The U.S. stock market on Friday posted one of its best weekly performances in years, recapturing half of the losses from the startling market correction earlier this month and discovering a new “wall of worry” to climb. The S&P 500 SPX, +0.04% closed nearly flat at 2,732. 22 on Friday and booked a 4.3% weekly […]
Following a down week for the S&P 500, market indices roared back this week. But some stocks — Shopify (NYSE:SHOP), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), and Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO), in particular — handily outperformed the S&P 500’s strong 4.3% gain. Here’s a look at what helped propel these three stocks higher than the market indices this week. Shopify […]
U.S. stock markets are unlikely to return to the unusually calm conditions seen last year, even though equities have already recovered more than half the ground lost in the recent selloff and traders have rapidly dialed down fear. Stock market volatility spiked to a multi-year high in the selloff and some products that flourished in […]
The stock market has been shaken by turbulence in the last few weeks, something it hasn’t experienced in a few years. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index plunged more than 10 percent from Jan. 26 to Feb. 8, a sell-off that pushed the market into a correction. The S.&P. has since rebounded, regaining much of […]
After a skirmish that sent the stock market into its first correction in two years, equities and the bond market are once again at peace. The question for investors is whether the truce can hold. The stock market plunge took the S&P 500 SPX, +0.04% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.08% into correction […]
More than 60 percent of the companies in the S&P 500 broke to new highs during January’s new year rally, and a diverse group are among the first to make a comeback after February’s correction. In the S&P 500, 23 stocks bounced back to their 52-week highs at some point in Friday’s trading. We looked […]
Wall Street surged on Wednesday as investors shrugged off stronger-than-expected inflation data and snapped up shares of Facebook, Amazon.com and Apple. The fourth straight day of gains in the S&P 500 saw a return to the “fear of missing out” mentality that accompanied Wall Street’s rally in recent months ahead of a slump last week […]
