The S&P 500 briefly entered a bear market on Monday, falling 21% from its mid-February peak. The uncertainty surrounding President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which were higher than Wall Street expected, plunged the market into chaos over the past week. An increase in market volatility has strategists at Goldman Sachs dusting off their bear market playbook…
The stock market has been reeling since Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement back on April 2. But even before this shock announcement tipped the Nasdaq into a bear market and sent the S&P 500 down 10% in two trading days, stocks had struggled this year as the reality of Trump’s desire to impose tariffs on…
(Reuters) – The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index was set to confirm it was in a bear market on Friday, down more than 20% from a recent record high, as investors fled riskier assets on fears that tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump could spark a trade war and tip the global economy into recession. Trump…
The biggest question I have been getting from clients and prospects lately is, “Is the correction over?” This is not surprising, given that market declines are brutal on emotions. However, as investors, we often forget that, like the laws of gravity, “what goes up must come down.” In today’s blog post, I want to provide two…
It has been an interesting correction. The average retail investor was “buying the dip” despite having an extremely bearish outlook. This is an interesting point because, as shown, the retail investor used to be considered a “contrarian indicator” as they were prone to be driven by emotional behaviors that led them to “buy high and sell low.”…
A tour bus passes the Wall Street bull in the financial district January 22, 2007 in New York City. – Image: Spencer Platt / Staff (Getty Images) Stock markets took another hit on Thursday, with several key benchmarks slipping into correction territory — a sign that Wall Street may be losing momentum in the early…
getty Retirees imagine their post-working lives relaxing in the shade on their comfortable porch. The view before them glistens with the fresh growth of green. The sweet light of the morning sun warms the dewy grass. They’re happy, at ease, and totally unfazed by economic headlines. And they wouldn’t be wrong. Unfortunately, far too many…
The buy-the-dip mantra, which fueled retail investors after the Covid crash, is now under fire as stock market bulls struggle to regain footing after five months of relentless declines. With the Nifty PE slipping below 20 for the first time in 32 months and valuations normalizing, the big question is: what next? Wednesday’s 740-point surge…
Analysts see China’s latest initiatives injecting at least 1 trillion yuan ($138 billion) of additional flows in 2025 into its ailing stock market, with the most bullish calculation by JPMorgan Chase & Co. totaling 13 trillion yuan over three years. Additional buying by insurance and mutual funds this year should be around 1.3 trillion yuan,…
China is guiding local mutual funds and insurers to boost investments into stocks in the government’s latest initiative to shore up its ailing equity market. Mutual funds should raise their holdings of onshore equities by at least 10% annually for the next three years, while large state-owned insurers will need to invest 30% of their…