Thursday’s sell-off in auto stocks may look tempting to investors who are used to buying the dip. However, Josh Brown warns the worst isn’t over for the sector — and to avoid exposure. Major carmakers declined Thursday after President Donald Trump announced his plans to impose a 25% tariff on “all cars that are not…
Traders work at the post where GameStop is traded on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on June 12, 2024. Brendan McDermid | Reuters GameStop shares tumbled Thursday, on track for its biggest loss since June, after the video game retailer announced plans to raise debt to buy bitcoin. The meme stock plunged…
The April 2 tariff deadline could be a disruptive, but not catastrophic, event for stocks, according to the options market. The S & P 500 may end next week up or down 2.5%, according to options expiring Friday, April 4, according to Michael Khouw, chief strategist at OpenInterest.Pro. A typical move for the broad market…
Johner Images | Johner Images Royalty-free | Getty Images Protect from ‘sequence of returns risk’ Stock market dips can be most harmful to portfolios during the first five years of retirement, which is the “danger zone,” according to Arnott. If you withdraw money when asset values have fallen, there are fewer funds available to capture…
Bitcoin is more closely correlated to the Nasdaq than it is to gold most of the time, and investors could benefit from viewing it as another big tech stock, says Standard Chartered. Bitcoin’s correlation with the Nasdaq is currently at about 0.5, after it approached 0.8 earlier this year, according to the bank. Meanwhile, its…
Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson sees a meaningful rotation back into U.S. stocks, and he sees one beaten-up group as a winner. “It started out with a low-quality rally, which is what we expect – meaning a short squeeze,” the firm’s chief investment officer told CNBC’s “Fast Money” on Monday. “Then, what we noticed is the…
Any rally in the stock market next week is unlikely to be sustainable until there’s clarity on the tariff front, something investors won’t get until April 2nd when a number of levies are expected to take effect. Stocks have bounced somewhat from their oversold condition this week, after a surprisingly dovish tone out of the…
American households are allocating so much money to U.S. stocks that the valuation of the whole market is now dependent on their appetite, according to JPMorgan. Individual investors have become the most important holder of U.S. equities, owning around 60% of the universe, the Wall Street firm said. This record level of ownership creates a…
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress,” on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 12, 2025. Nathan Howard | Reuters Federal Reserve officials slashed their economic outlook in the latest projections released Wednesday, seeing the U.S. economy growing…
Spencer Platt | Getty Images Individual investors, whose assets are more tied to the stock market than ever, have abandoned their tried-and-true dip-buying mentality as the S&P 500 recently fell into a painful, 10% correction. Retail outflows from U.S. equities rose to about $4 billion over the past two weeks as tariff chaos and mounting…