Equity Markets

Investors will be focusing their attention on the Federal Reserve’s meeting next week, searching for details on a potentially hawkish pivot in monetary policy in the face of high inflation.Fed Chair Jerome Powell — whose hawkish signal…

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…

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…

Major U.S. stock indexes slipped after major central banks around the world took steps to tighten monetary policy, reversing some of their gains from the prior session.The S&P 500 lost around 1.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average…

There’s nothing magical about a stock index hitting the 10% decline that constitutes what Wall Street considers to be a correction. So we need to stop treating this 10% mark as meaningful. It isn’t. The odds that…

U.S. stocks opened 2022 with tepid gains as investors monitored cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 and other factors that could weigh on stocks this year. The S&P 500 gained 0.4% in early Monday trading. The index ended 2021 up…

Text size Wall Street trading will return in force Tuesday.…

Text size Investors will be closely watching U.S. inflation numbers for…

U.S. stocks rose on Monday as the few investors staying on Wall Street capitalized on what is traditionally a lightly attended but bullish week, pushing the S&P 500 to an intraday record.The S&P 500 rose 1.1% after the index hit…

U.S. stock futures traded mixed on Wednesday, with signs that technology stocks will come under pressure again as markets await a decision by the Federal Open Market Committee later. Retail sales and other data is…