My top 10 things to watch Tuesday, July 8 1. Living with contrived chaos. That’s what we are doing with trade policy like this from the White House. It’s all deliberately created. Nothing has to be done like this. If you have the market at record highs, you can get away with this. That’s what…
Another bruising week on Wall Street gave us a chance to open up our wallet and pick up a number of stocks on sale. The week ahead will offer investors a fresh look at inflation at a time of growing economic and trade policy uncertainty. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq Composite sank 3.1%…
Rekindled inflation concerns and President Donald Trump threatening reciprocal tariffs Friday slammed the door on the possibility of a winning week on Wall Street. For the week: the Dow and the Nasdaq each lost just over 0.5%, and the S & P 500 fell almost 0.25%. All three stock benchmarks were higher on the week…
My top 10 things to watch Thursday, Feb. 6 1. Wall Street was looking at a mixed open. The Dow, the S & P 500, and the Nasdaq all put together back-to-back gains ahead of Thursday evening’s quarterly earnings report from Club name Amazon and Friday morning’s big government jobs report. 2. Club name Honeywell…
We say hello to February. In Friday’s session, the stocks turned over after President Donald Trump said tariffs on imports from China, Mexico, and Canada would begin Saturday. And, come Saturday, they went into effect, adding another thing for Wall Street to worry about after the final week of January was so jampacked with news…
Earnings season ramps up another notch next week to start February, forcing investors to wade through a barrage of quarterly results amid ongoing policy uncertainty that promises upheaval for an already choppy stock market. The January jobs report is also due out Friday. Next week will be the busiest stretch for fourth-quarter earnings. More than…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Market update: Stocks moved off their session highs and struggled to hold onto their gains. The S & P 500 is on pace for a small…
Maybe new investors don’t care about valuations. Maybe new exchange-traded funds can take Wall Street by storm. Maybe insiders aren’t in a hurry to sell. Maybe earnings are going to be much better than we think. Maybe some part of the market mechanics has broken down. Or, maybe the whole market has a new expectation…
My top 10 things to watch Friday, Dec. 6 1. The November jobs report came in strong, with 227,000 jobs added versus the Dow Jones consensus estimate for 214,000. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%, as expected. Stock futures were little changed ahead of the report and moved up slightly after it hit. The…
The post-election rally came to a halt this week as investors started to get a better sense of what a second Donald Trump term might look like, with the president-elect announcing several picks for ranking positions within his administration. By Friday’s close, the S & P 500 was 2.08% lower on the week, while the…