U.S. stocks closed sharply lower Tuesday, led by a selloff in industrials, materials and technology shares. The selling pressure came after the 10-year Treasury yield briefly touched the psychologically important 3% level for the first time in four years, a move that comes as first-quarter earnings season was failing to excite investors, despite some strong […]
You’ve heard this before: Stocks, over time, outperform real estate. There are many schools of thought on this but one common statistic that gets tossed around shows equities over the past several decades have returned an average upwards of 10% a year, while real estate is in the 4% ballpark. Ask anybody who managed to […]
Rising costs and rising interest rates make for a bad brew for stocks. The 10-year Treasury yield rose to 3 percent Tuesday for the first time in four years. The psychologically important number sent ripples across financial markets because rising interest rates are a sea change for consumers and companies that have lived with ultra-low […]
TOKYO — Asian shares dipped Wednesday, mirroring a sell-off on Wall Street on fears about slowing growth and falling company profits. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 slipped 0.6 percent to 22,135.07 in early trading. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was down 1.1 percent to 30,298.60, and the Shanghai Composite shed 0.7 percent to 3,108.01. South […]
U.S. stocks ended the session little changed Monday as investors grappled with rising bond yields and a mixed bag of earnings reports. The closely watched yield on the 10-year Treasury note climbed, settling just below the psychologically important 3% level. What are the main benchmarks doing? The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.06% ended 14.25 […]
A gauge of global equity markets declined on Monday as U.S. bond yields moved closer to the 3 percent level that has unsettled investors in recent months, while a fall in commodity prices pressured materials stocks U.S. bond prices fell, with the 10-year yield hitting its highest in over four years at 2.998 percent. Investors […]
Rising interest rates are likely to sting the stock market, but a 3 percent or even higher 10-year Treasury yield isn’t enough to cause a meltdown. Some stock strategists say the stock market has had its sights on a 3 percent 10-year Treasury yield ever since it started spiraling lower on interest rate and inflation […]
In one corner, you have conventional wisdom and many experts like Burton Malkiel, professor emeritus at Princeton University and the author of “A Random Walk Down Wall Street.” In the other corner, you have IBD’s founder William O’Neil, and plenty of other investment pros with a real track record of long-term investing success. These two […]
Foreigners bought a record $384 million of Saudi Arabian stocks on a net basis last week, showing international interest in the market is continuing to grow ahead of the planned listing of oil giant Saudi Aramco in Riyadh late this year or early next. Foreign investors purchased $615 million of stocks and sold $231 million […]
Asian stocks dipped on Monday as investors braced for a bevy of earnings from the world’s largest corporations, while keeping a wary eye on U.S. bond yields as they approach peaks that have triggered market spasms in the past. Traders were also anxiously awaiting surveys on global manufacturing for April to see if economic softness […]
Two of the three long recommendations from last Sunday, Intel (-0.6%), Microsoft (+2.1%) and Amazon (+5.7%) rose in the last week. Tesla, from the April 8th post, was a short on Friday, the 13th. Tesla fell by 3.7% after Friday the 13’s close. Wednesday, the 18th, was likely a short-term high. There are many earnings […]
Asian stocks traded mostly lower on Monday, as investors kept an eye on rising U.S. Treasury yields and digested declines in technology stocks seen stateside. The Nikkei 225 shed 0.28 percent while the broader Topix was flat. Among sectors, insurers, banks and shippers traded in positive territory, while technology was a mixed bag. Elsewhere, the […]
