After weeks of pain, the stock market is eyeing some relief from tariffs and fears about Donald Trump’s encroachment on the Federal Reserve. US stocks soared Wednesday after comments from Trump helped ease two major headwinds for the stock market: steep tariffs on China and the early termination of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Here’s…
The biggest bull in markets heading into 2025 has already gone back to the drawing board. But considering what’s happened to US stocks in the last two months, he’s as cheery as ever. John Stoltzfus, the chief investment strategist at Oppenheimer, entered the year with a Street-high S&P 500 target of 7,100, which implied the index was…
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 both flashed the dreaded “death cross” formation on Monday. The technical sell signal occurs when an index’s 200-day moving average rises above its 50-day moving average. It can signal a reversal in a prior trend — in this case, the two-year bull market in stocks. The development comes on…
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the more frequent stock traders in Congress. Just before Trump’s tariff pause sent markets soaring, she bought thousands of dollars in stock. Democrats have speculated that some…
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Traders at the New York Stock Exchange had a stressful few days amid Trump’s trade war. While stocks rebounded after a 90-day tariff pause, the S&P, Dow, and Nasdaq fell again on Thursday. It…
BEIJING, April 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — UK companies are looking to enter the China market, which greatly supports UK economic growth, UK Trade Commissioner for China Lewis Neal told the Global Times on Sunday. His comments were made while attending the China International Consumer Products Expo (CICPE) in Haikou, South China’s Hainan Province. The UK…
Last week, the world woke up to the weight of the bond market. A leviathan in the finance world, it occasionally writhes to remind others that some rules are sacred. Lodged in their humdrum world, the methodical bond boys keep a dignified distance from their jumpy peers in the stock market, deriving a quiet pride…
As the stock market began to slide in the wake of President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement, Sen. Bernie Moreno offered a suggestion: Buy the dip. “I would go out and buy stocks today,” the Ohio Republican told reporters the day after Trump announced a 10% baseline tariff and a host of steeper “reciprocal”…
Shocking stock-market volatility, chaos in the bond market, and a plunge in the dollar — this week in markets is destined for the history books. The S&P 500 wrapped up its best week since November 2023 — but that doesn’t begin to tell the story of the tariff-fueled roller coaster ride that investors were sent…
There’s an old joke in economics that stock markets have predicted nine out of the past five recessions. The point being that predicting a recession solely based on the stock market is difficult. “They can turn around on a dime. They can turn around in a heartbeat,” said James Angel, a finance professor at Georgetown…