(Bloomberg) — A brutal year for US stocks is drawing to a close with little conviction on Wall Street that the outlook is brightening anytime soon. After charting a rebound since October on speculation the Federal Reserve is nearing the end of its most aggressive rate hikes in decades, stock prices have retreated over the […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Investors expect this earnings season to pummel stocks further and will watch Apple Inc. in particular as a bellwether of global economic conditions. More than 60% of the 724 respondents to the latest MLIV Pulse survey say this earnings season will push the S&P 500 Index lower. That means no end in sight […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The stock market: buckling under the hottest inflation since 1981, battered by a historically aggressive bid to break it. Making matters worse is that bonds are beckoning as well. American equities plunged to the worst week since January after data showed US price pressures hit a fresh 40-year high in May, squashing hopes […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Asian stocks look set for a mixed start Tuesday as traders digest an early selloff in US equity futures and more Chinese measures to boost the world’s second-largest economy. US futures dropped with Nasdaq 100 contracts faring worst after Snapchat owner Snap Inc. warned of deteriorating macreconomic trends and said it’s unlikely to […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The feel-good days for global markets at the end of March are firmly over. Everything from stocks to bonds is falling — even oil has pulled back from near records — in a concerted cross-asset selloff with echoes of the rate-spurred rout of October 2018. Blame it on a Federal Reserve intent on […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — War, inflation and the lingering impact of a global disease made the first quarter a historically rough one for stock and bond investors. Across equity and fixed-income markets broadly, the least-bad performance among U.S. assets were declines of 4.9% in the S&P 500 and speculative credit. They were followed by a 5.6% fall […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — After a selloff that put global stocks on course for their worst month since the start of the pandemic, strategists from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to Citigroup Inc. say it’s now time to buy. “Any further significant weakness at the index level should be seen as a buying opportunity, in our view,” Goldman […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Stocks could face a “slow, laborious” decline in 2022 as a result of a more hawkish Federal Reserve that may raise interest rates four times, according to Dennis Gartman. The University of Akron Endowment Chairman said in an interview with Bloomberg Radio Monday that stocks could trade 10% to 15% lower this year. […]
Read MoreMany folks will tell you the stock market looks expensive. And they’re not exactly wrong. The S&P 500’s forward price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio – the index divided by the estimated next-12 months’ earnings – is historically high at about 21.2, according to FactSet. This is significantly above its 5-year average of 18.5 and 10-year average of […]
Read MoreThe U.S. Federal Reserve building. DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images The stock market is tumbling Friday, something it can’t seem to stop doing recently. It isn’t just the Federal Reserve’s latest policy signals causing volatility, though that’s at the heart of the issue. Since the beginning of November, the S&P 500 has been essentially flat. […]
Read MoreRay Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates Al Drago/Bloomberg I’m not the doomsday reporter at Barron’s, despite appearances. Last week, I shared a conversation with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt about artificial intelligence and the risk of a robo-nuclear attack. I didn’t know whether to duck and cover or initiate emergency pants-wetting protocols. Now, hedge fund […]
Read MoreThe stock market’s record run is poised to gain steam in the weeks ahead — if history is any indication. The start of the holiday season is typically a strong time of year on Wall Street, a pattern that analysts point to as a reason to remain optimistic that the stock market will remain at […]
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