42m agoWed 1 Oct 2025 at 2:22am Market snapshot at midday ASX 200: -0.4% to 8,812 points Australian dollar: -0.2% to 66.0 US cents Nikkei: -1.1% to 44,430 points S&P 500: +0.4% to 6,688 points Nasdaq: +0.3% to 22,660 points FTSE: +0.5% to 9,350 points EuroStoxx: +0.5% to 558 points Spot gold: +0.2% to $US3,866/ounce…
Wall Street ticked higher on Monday as technology stocks recovered some of their losses from late last week. The Standard & Poor’s 500 added 0.3%. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 68 points, or 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.5%. All three are near their all-time highs set a week ago. Big Tech stocks…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell caught investors’ attention on Tuesday when he said that the US equity market is “fairly highly valued.” While it’s never nice to hear the Fed chair speak in less-than-bullish tones, Powell’s observation shouldn’t have come as a surprise to investors. After all, he’s right — at least for the most…
Yale economist William Goetzmann has felt the fear that a stock-market crash can strike into an investor. He’s lived through at least four of them: 1987, 2000, 2008, and 2020. “I watched my entire life savings drop by 50% during the crash of 2008,” he told Business Insider earlier this month. Many Americans who had…
US stock futures edged lower Sunday evening as traders caught their breath following a milestone week that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 notch fresh all-time highs. Dow futures (YM=F) slid 65 points, or 0.1%. Contracts tied to the S&P 500 (ES=F) and Nasdaq 100 (NQ=F) were off 0.1%. The slight pullback…
Rob Arnott had just finished his burger when we ended up on perhaps the most interesting detail of an hourlong interview: He has seen 18 solar eclipses. That’s quite the résumé, considering they only happen once every year and a half. He’s traveled to see them in Antarctica and Australia. He’s seen one from a…
The stock market is flashing a handful of signs that the latest rally may be about to reverse course, one of Bank of America’s top technical strategists said. Paul Ciana, the global chief technical strategist at BofA, said in a client note on Monday that the market looks like it is facing a handful of…
The moment investors have been waiting for all year is probably at hand. Markets have been clamoring for the Federal Reserve to resume its rate-cutting cycle, and the central bank finally looks poised to trim its target rate at this week’s policy meeting. The odds for a cut have risen steadily in the last few…
Before his portfolio management days, Denny Fish worked as a sales manager at Oracle. He saw the incredible demand for its software products as the dot-com boom flourished, an experience that would later inform his mindset as an investor: What was the next revolutionary idea he could get ahead of? “I watched the internet boom,…
Summer is over, and stock investors used to placid markets are getting a wakeup call. Equity markets were sharply lower on Monday, with losses in major indexes hovering around 1%. Traders are responding to further uncertainty around Trump tariffs and a spiking 30-year Treasury yield. The selling comes on the heels of positive August for…