U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during an announcement about lowering U.S. drug prices, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Oct. 10, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters On Friday morning, the S&P 500 was less than a couple of points from another all-time high. Then, after a single social media post from President…
Although the stock market appears poised to continue its rally to record highs , traders can use options to protect their positions from pullbacks or even a potential downturn, KKM Financial CEO Jeff Kilburg said. “You can sleep now for the next three months if you own these puts, no matter what happens overnight or…
Trevor Williams | DigitalVision | Getty Images The S&P 500 index closed at a new all-time high on Wednesday amid a federal government shutdown. It rose to a new intraday high early Thursday. Prior to that, the index — which is focused on large-cap U.S. equities — had risen almost 90% since the equity bull…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media at the White House in Washington DC, United States, on August 1, 2025. Yasin Ozturk | Anadolu | Getty Images Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day: 1. Everything, everywhere, all at once A lot happened on Friday. Here’s a…
John Davi, founder and CEO of investment management company Astoria Portfolio Advisors, has one overriding piece of advice for investors heading into the second half of the year: “Re-risk your portfolio.” The stock market has made a sharp turnaround from its early April lows, when fears over tariffs and their effect on inflation and the…
A screen shows trading indexes at the New York Stock Exchange on April 3, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters While Wall Street spent the past week sweating over whether President Donald Trump’s now-altered tariff plan would push the economy into a recession or ignite a bear market, Rachel Hazit knew exactly what to do. The…
President Donald Trump Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Investors who followed President Donald Trump’s blunt advice to buy stocks on Wednesday morning received a windfall when the president hours later rolled back some of his market-ruining tariffs. At 9:37 a.m. ET, just minutes after the opening bell, Trump posted on Truth Social that…
A trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on April 2, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters U.S. stocks fell in after hours trading as President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs of a minimum 10%, but even higher for some countries. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), which tracks the S&P…
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…
Over the past few years, we’ve highlighted the risk of a slowdown in consumer spending as the post-pandemic surge — where consumers were flush with cash — has given way to depleted savings and rising debt levels to sustain spending. Recent data over the past four months shows a noticeable shift in consumer sentiment, with…