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A ‘pinch’ for the stock market but good news for the Fed: What investors need to know
Microsoft Corp. isn’t the only U.S. company pointing to the dollar’s surge as a potential problem. A strong dollar has been a hot topic this week since the software giant
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Dow futures slide more than 250 points as market worries mount
U.S. stock-index futures fell Sunday night, following a losing week on Wall Street amid worries about Fed policy and the fast-spreading omicron variant of COVID-19. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures…
Cathie Wood says stocks have corrected into ‘deep value territory’ and won’t let
ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood offered the latest defense of the once-highflying, disruptive innovation strategies that had made her suite of exchange-traded funds among the most popular, and best-performing, on…
Risk Is Likely to Make a Comeback. Here’s What to Expect.
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Is the U.S. stock market closed on Friday for New Year’s Eve? No. It isn’t even closed…
Blame it on an obscure rule. For the first time in a decade, there will be no U.S. stock-market closure in observance of New Year’s Day which falls on a Saturday. U.S. markets will be open on Friday Dec. 31, which…
Stocks Open Higher After Wall Street Record
U.S. stock indexes opened higher Tuesday, a day after a record close for the S&P 500 amid lower liquidity in the last days of the year.The S&P 500 added 0.1% after the broad-market index rallied 1.4% on Monday. The Nasdaq…
Biotech rout in 2021 has led to some massive hedge-fund losses
Biotech stocks have fallen to earth with a thud in 2021 after soaring last year amid excitement over the development of COVID-19 vaccines, dealing big losses to some hedge funds. The sector is being buffeted by…
If Santa Claus doesn’t come to Wall Street in December, the Grinch hits the stock market
There’s much ado about the so-called Santa Claus rally that tends to materialize in the U.S. stock market in the final week of December and the first two trading sessions of the new year, but the importance of the…
Wall Street banks post record $10 billion in IPO revenues even as average investors in
The best of times and the worst: It was the tale of two IPO markets this year on Wall Street. Investment banks booked a record tally in revenue from initial public offerings in 2021, despite IPO performance that was the worst in at least…