Futures extend gains as hopes government shutdown can be averted lifts sentiment
Trader sentiment appears a tad more chipper less than three hours before the opening bell rings on Wall Street. Futures indicate that the S&P 500, which at close on Thursday was in correction ...
S&P 500 flirts with correction territory as Trump’s trade war escalates. Here’s what history says could happen next.
Another day, another tariff-driven selloff on Wall Street. The large-cap S&P 500 index was falling 1% to trade at 5,542.16 as ...
Worried about a bear market? Here's something to keep in mind.
U.S. stocks have already seen two bear markets since Jan. 1, 2020. A third would be extremely rare: Investors haven't endured three bear markets in a single decade since the 1960s, according to Ryan ...
Inflation threat won't fade soon
The effort to tame inflation to low prepandemic levels is far from over. Wall Street was already nervous about a potential ...
'Magnificent Seven' bond yields are looking good right now
As the stocks of the "Magnificent Seven" tech stocks fall, their bond yields have climbed along with the broader movement in investment-grade markets — and are now at levels that investors might want ...
Stocks trade off session lows in final hour
The selloff in stocks resumed Thursday, but with the three major indexes off the session's low in the final hour of trade. The S&P 500 index was down about 1% at around 5,542, on pace to avoid a close ...
Nasdaq futures lead stocks lower as tariff and government shutdown uncertainty weigh
S&P 500 futures are down 0.5%. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures are off 0.3%. Nasdaq 100 futures are dipping 0.7%. On Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 83 points, or 0.2%, to 41,351 ...
Gold taps fresh record highs near $3,000 with 'no sign of a slowdown' in physical demand
Gold futures headed higher Thursday for a third straight session, touching a fresh record intraday high, with "no sign of a slowdown in physical gold demand," Michael Armbruster, co-founder and ...
Dow heads for biggest four-day drop since aftermath of August carry-trade unwind
The Dow was on track to fall for a fourth-straight session on Thursday, what would be its longest losing streak since January. But if the blue-chip average finishes at, or below, its current level, it ...
Why the bond market isn't enamored with PPI inflation reading
The bond market has a bone to pick with the latest inflation data. Traders in bonds "so far shrugged off this morning’s cool PPI" and remain "more focused on the less-encouraging implications for the ...
Wholesale inflation in the U.S. eases in February. What does it mean?
Wholesale prices in the U.S. didn't rise in February. Hooray. The report follows a similarly mild increase in consumer prices. Inflation is still running well above prepandemic levels, however, and ...
Dow heads for worst week since March, while S&P 500, Nasdaq on track for worst since September
It's been another rough week for U.S. stocks. Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite were on track to surpass their losses from last week to tally their worst weekly showing since September 2024. The ...