All year long, just about every other kind of news item that might normally serve to move the market – interest rates, inflation, corporate earnings – all seem to have taken a back seat to the spectacle that has become trade and tariffs between the U.S. and China. If the stock market can sometimes be […]
Read MoreU.S. stocks received a much-needed shot of life during Tuesday’s session when all three major domestic indexes scored their second best gain of the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 both climbed 2.1%, while the Nasdaq roared 2.7% higher, reversing the tech-centric index’s abysmal 1.6% loss Monday that saw it near correction […]
Read MoreWe could see the S&P at 3,000 this year, according to JPMorgan’s strategists. Here’s why.
Read MoreIf you want to know where the broader market is headed, this is the group of stocks to look at.
Read MoreBut don’t panic just yet, there could still be upside ahead in the near term.
Read MoreHere are the 15 stocks they say investors should consider. The S&P 500 is up nearly 17% since its low hit on Christmas Eve when the index briefly dropped into bear market territory, but Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is warning that this rally is about to stall. This surge since December 24 marks the fastest […]
Read MoreAnd it has nothing to to with China or the Fed…
Read MoreThe bulls came roaring back in January as both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 logged their best January performances in three decades. The rally also constituted their largest monthly gains since October 2015, just two months after the Dow Jones experienced its first “Black Monday” of the new millennium with a 1,089-point […]
Read MoreSince Christmas Eve, stocks have been on a quiet tear with the S&P 500 climbing around 12% since then. But while stocks are now rebounding after being clobbered for the last several months, don’t be fooled. “Don’t think stocks are back to their old ways of just chugging along and making easy money,” Nick Colas, […]
Read MoreShares of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) sank late Wednesday following the iPhone maker’s announcement that it had lowered its revenue guidance for Q1 citing unexpectedly weak sales in China, among other factors. After the bell on Wednesday, Apple said that it expected first quarter revenue of $84 billion compared to the previous guidance range of between […]
Read MoreIn the last week, bearish momentum has really started to pick up. This entire year has been punctuated by volatility driven by uncertainty, but it’s really only since late November that the overall market tone has actually started to turn negative. That fact has finally come to bear this week, forcing the S&P 500 below […]
Read MoreThis week, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management released its list of 10 geopolitical risks that it believes could wreak havoc on the market in 2019. While Morgan Stanley WM sees a few of these scenarios as “frightening but unlikely,” many of the others have surfaced as realities in 2018. Here is the list, from most likely […]
Read More2018 has marked a very interesting year for the stock market. After a year of practically uninterrupted increases in stock prices in 2017, where every small dip in price provided a new opportunity to jump back in and made the market look like easy money, 2018 has been anything but predictable. Geopolitical concerns like Brexit, […]
Read MoreFollowing a brutal 2018, Nomura released their annual list of “Gray Swans” for the upcoming year this week. If you’re not familiar, a Gray Swan—cousin to Black Swan events—is an event that can be anticipated to a degree. Considered possible but not certain, a Gray Swan event could have a massive impact on the market […]
Read MoreThe market has been on a wild ride over the past two months, with everything from trade to politics to weak corporate outlooks for the next year sending stocks tumbling lower. But Lindsey Bell, an investment strategist at CFRA Research, says there’s another massive market risk flying under the radar. Bell says that corporate debt […]
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