Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The past few weeks of stock market whipsawing have been a gut check for internet communities that swelled in numbers during the usually excellent markets of the past five years. The WallStreetBets subreddit that…
Happy Monday! The big question we’re tackling today: Has the market bottomed? Plus, we’re unpacking Scott Bessent’s Sunday comments, cheap big tech stocks, and more. First time reading? Join 190,000 self-directed investors gaining an edge every morning. Sign up here. When the bears get loud, it could be time to turn bullish. The S&P 500…
As global markets reel from mounting uncertainty, billionaire investor Warren Buffett has a timeless piece of advice for investors: “Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs.” The Berkshire Hathaway chairman often turns to Rudyard Kipling’s 1895 poem “If”— as a guide during market downturns, urging investors to remain calm and focused on…
As an investor, your goal is to grow your money and perhaps achieve financial freedom. And who wouldn’t want to tap into the incredible wealth-building potential of the stock market? Every investor dreams of nailing the next big investment — one that skyrockets in value like the success stories of Nvidia, Netflix, and Amazon over…
Government shutdown averted: Senate advances funding bill Democrats helped the Senate advance the GOP spending bill with a vote of 62-38. U.S. stocks ended the day higher, with the blue-chip Dow clawing back 675 points, on optimism the government will stay open. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he wouldn’t block a Republican government funding bill,…
Tesla’s stock plunges by half; is Elon Musk’s EV party over? Tesla’s stock has dropped by nearly half in three months, losing most of the gains it made following the U.S. election last year, when CEO Elon Musk helped fund the victory of President Donald Trump. U.S. stocks mostly fell in early trading Tuesday, extending…
Hello! 🙋🏼♀️ I’m Nicole Fallert, and welcome to Tuesday’s Daily Briefing. Don’t fear the worm moon. In today’s news: American stocks take a major tumble The American stock market had its worst day of the year on Monday, when the tech-heavy Nasdaq and broad S&P 500 posted their biggest one-day drop since September 2022. Why? Investors…
With every announcement that the Trump administration makes lately, it can feel like the U.S. economy is strapped onto a never-ending rollercoaster. Take the ongoing saga of Donald Trump’s tariffs. Just this week, Trump said he was going forward with a 25% additional tariff on almost all goods imported into the U.S. from Mexico and…
Published: March 6, 2025 at 6:00 a.m. ET Investors got what they wanted on Wednesday — temporary tariff relief from the Trump administration that finally halted a two-day selloff that sent the stock market into a tailspin earlier this week. However, so-called reciprocal tariffs on foreign imports from all major U.S. trading partners are still coming in…
Published: March 3, 2025 at 5:02 p.m. ET U.S. stocks endured another serious setback on Monday as what one trader described as a tariff “tape bomb” from President Donald Trump caused the S&P 500 to tally its biggest daily drop in months. After a rocky month that saw the Nasdaq Composite COMP fall sharply from its…