Google parent Alphabet is among the first of the ” Magnificent Seven ” companies to report second-quarter earnings, with results due after the stock market closes on Wednesday. Shares of Alphabet have barely budged this year, lagging the other Magnificent 7 stocks and the S & P 500 . Investor concern is focused on the…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on April 10, 2025 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Stock futures rose on Sunday as Wall Street looks to gauge President Donald Trump’s latest tariff moves. S&P 500 futures gained 0.5%, while Nasdaq-100 futures moved 0.8% higher. Futures tied to…
Negative impacts from President Donald Trump’s intensifying global trade war could include stagflation and an even more drastic drawdown in the stock market, according to Torsten Slok, Apollo Global Management’s chief economist. The widely-followed economist sees a dire situation emerging in the tariff chaos, leading him to conjure up a host of downside risks to…
A trader is comforted by a coworker as they work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / Getty Images The Magnificent Seven stocks collectively lost more than $800 billion in Thursday trading, the latest milestone underscoring how President Donald Trump’s tariff rollout has crippled financial markets. Taken together, the…
An exchange-traded fund that is considered a representative gauge of the wider economy is breaking down, hinting U.S. equities could face still more pain. Investors are uneasy ahead of President Donald Trump’s long-awaited April 2 unveiling of broad tariffs on major trading partners. Monday’s sell-off brought the S & P 500 back into a correction…
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…
A look at the history of market corrections suggests the speed at which the S & P 500 fell into the current one is actually encouraging for investors. The rapid descent in the S & P 500 is unusual, given that it was accomplished in just 22 calendar days, far shorter than the average of…
The difference between Chinese and U.S. stocks is only getting clearer. The S & P 500 fell into correction on Thursday for the first time since 2023 . Meanwhile, the MSCI China index has surged double digits in its best start to a year in history, largely thanks to artificial intelligence, according to Goldman Sachs….
Earnings season ramps up another notch next week to start February, forcing investors to wade through a barrage of quarterly results amid ongoing policy uncertainty that promises upheaval for an already choppy stock market. The January jobs report is also due out Friday. Next week will be the busiest stretch for fourth-quarter earnings. More than…
The DAX , a benchmark of 40 German blue-chip stocks hit a record high on Monday, despite a disappointing GDP print out of Germany — and it’s not the first time Germany’s stock market and its economy have diverged considerably. Europe’s largest economy contracted for the second year in a row in 2024, but the…