For Rick Rieder, the stock market has never looked so good. The chief investment officer of global fixed income at BlackRock says he thinks the market has emerged into the “best investing environment ever,” thanks to a cluster of factors that are setting up a bullish backdrop for equities. Rieder’s ultra-bullish view isn’t shared by…
The stock market rallied on the latest inflation report. The S&P 500 closed at a record high on Tuesday, while the Nasdaq rose over 1% and the Dow spiked nearly 500 points. The benchmark S&P 500 is up almost 10% year-to-date. Here’s where US indexes stood at the 4 p.m. ET closing bell on Tuesday:…
It’s been a strong summer for stocks, but investors are about to enter what is historically the worst period of the year for the market. The period from late July to mid-October is a tough stretch, with August and September often seeing the worst of the volatility. The S&P 500 has dipped by an average…
It’s been a tumultuous summer for markets, but investors have mostly ploughed through the volatility and pushed stocks steadily higher — but one top bank is warning not to get comfortable. The S&P 500 is up 8% year-to-date, and the benchmark index is cruising near record highs in the late summer stretch. Solid earnings, a…
It’s one of the biggest mysteries in markets right now: Is the AI trade driving a stock-market bubble? While earnings remain impressively strong, the potential warning signs of a bubble are there. The S&P 500 is sitting near all-time highs after a 28% rally since early April and 57% gains since ChatGPT was announced in…
After a weak few months of job growth, investors are banking on rate cuts from the Federal Reserve at their September meeting, and history shows cuts could be like rocket fuel for stocks in the months that follow. LPL Financial recently conducted an analysis of how stocks have performed from the first rate cut in…
Domino’s Pizza, the master franchise holder for the UK and Ireland, has lowered its full-year profit outlook due to higher employment costs and weak demand as customers cut back on spending amid rising prices. In its first-half results, the company said it now expected full-year underlying profits (Ebitda) to be in the range of £130…
Stock valuations are getting frothy again, but this time, it’s not all Big Tech’s fault. Yes, valuations of the Magnificent Seven stocks — Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, Nvidia, and Tesla — are back up after since bottoming in April. Yet, the group’s 12-month forward price-to-earnings ratio is still down from mid-2024, mid-2023, and 2020…
President Donald Trump just showed markets that he doesn’t always chicken out. Trump’s August 1 tariff deadline has arrived, and a barrage of new and amended import duties sent the stock market tumbling in Friday’s session. The updated tariffs don’t officially kick in until August 7, meaning nations still have some time to reach a…
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