2024 is set to enter Wall Street’s hall of fame of bull years.
Equity investors face a bewildering sequence of tough-to-predict outcomes and confusing market signals. Patience and a steady hand look like valuable attributes in navigating through the noise.
Investors laser-focused on the risks looming in the next few weeks may be left unprepared if their worst fears don’t come to pass.
While the stock market rallied after the long-awaited Federal Reserve rate cut last week, there’s a sense of unease accompanying the gains.
Nvidia Corp.’s earnings report was impressive by virtually any metric — except its own recent history.
Take out the few big tech companies that keep pushing the S&P 500 Index to all time highs and it looks like the engine is running on fumes.
No matter which way markets go, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. says some traders are modeled to sell stocks over the next week.
Options traders are betting on more gains in the S&P 500 Index after it hit a record high on Friday.
Even a slight pushback from the Federal Reserve on interest-rate cuts could unravel the relentless stock rally since late October.
It could take just a 1% move in the S&P 500 — up or down — every day for a week for the rally in US stocks to come under significant pressure.
Stock market volatility is suddenly back on radar screens as equities drop for a third day in a row. That doesn’t bode well for the performance of markets, which haven’t seen a pullback of 5% or more since March.
A long-watched indicator of which way the stock market is likely to move next has lost predictive power lately, confounding investors who have come to rely on the signal embedded in options trades.
The boom in stock market options shows no sign of let up, as the number of traded US contracts surpassed the 10-billion mark in 2022 for the first time ever, playing a role in the biggest equity rout in over a decade.
More tech tantrums. China’s Covid surge. And above all, no central banks riding to the rescue if things go wrong.
Some of the world's biggest investors predict that stocks will see low double-digit gains next year, which would bring relief after global equities suffered their worst loss since 2008.
This week’s $370 billion big tech selloff amid a broader rally in the market did nothing to change the view that the stocks are still too expensive.
Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF is missing out on the year-end rally on Wall Street.
A hasty policy shift by central banks anxious to tame surging inflation is the biggest downside risk for global stocks next year, according to an informal Bloomberg News survey of fund managers.
As stocks around the world continue to smash one record after another, some of the world’s biggest money managers have a simple message: Get used to it.
