Another bruising week on Wall Street gave us a chance to open up our wallet and pick up a number of stocks on sale. The week ahead will offer investors a fresh look at inflation at a time of growing economic and trade policy uncertainty. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq Composite sank 3.1%…
Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange floor on March 3, 2025. Spencer Platt | Getty Images U.S. stock futures rose Monday night after President Donald Trump said his tariffs on Canada and Mexico would take effect on Tuesday. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 107 points, or 0.3%. S&P 500…
Here are the most important news items that investors need to start their trading day: 1. March mayhem 2. Buffett burns tariffs Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 4, 2024. CNBC Legendary investor Warren Buffett criticized Trump’s tariff plans, saying they will raise costs for consumers…
The bulls on Wall Street emerged victorious Friday but not for the week. Investors shook off a midday, end-of-the-week sell-off on geopolitical concerns sparked by President Donald Trump’s Oval Office spat with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy . Still, the advance Friday was not enough for the S & P 500 and Nasdaq to overcome weekly…
Investors could use a break heading into a new month, but there are no shortage of obstacles ahead, including next week’s February jobs report and looming tariff deadlines. Stocks are in a different place at the end of February than at the start. The S & P 500 on Friday ended the month down 2.3%,…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Market moves: Wall Street is attempting to rebound Friday, but policy uncertainty in Washington continued to get in the way. A midday pullback in stocks occurred…
Wall Street finished last week with big back-to-back declines, moving the S & P 500 away from Wednesday’s record-high close. Chip giant Nvidia had a rough week ahead of this week’s earnings. The S & P 500 flipped negative for all of last week, down 1.7%, after Friday trading extended the weakness of the prior session….
Maybe new investors don’t care about valuations. Maybe new exchange-traded funds can take Wall Street by storm. Maybe insiders aren’t in a hurry to sell. Maybe earnings are going to be much better than we think. Maybe some part of the market mechanics has broken down. Or, maybe the whole market has a new expectation…
My top 10 things to watch Friday, Dec. 6 1. The November jobs report came in strong, with 227,000 jobs added versus the Dow Jones consensus estimate for 214,000. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%, as expected. Stock futures were little changed ahead of the report and moved up slightly after it hit. The…
My top 10 things to watch Monday, Dec. 2 1. Spending on Black Friday was a little stronger than expected, according to Mastercard data. It was up 3.4% overall while e-commerce was up 14.6%. Brick and mortar was up just 0.7%, which jibes with the performance over the last few weeks of Best Buy ,…