By Jon D. Markman On October 31, 201806:29 AM Eastern
Stocks got their act together at last on Tuesday by putting together a balanced advance rather than an all-or-nothing blitzkrieg.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 431 points, or 1.7%, while...
By Jon D. Markman On October 30, 201803:30 PM Eastern
Stocks narrowly advanced on Tuesday, showing signs of stabilizing after a bruising month on Wall Street.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 165 points through 2:30 p.m. ET, or 0.7%, while...
By Jon D. Markman On October 30, 201810:07 AM Eastern
Stocks started the Monday session with broad gains, clearly celebrating the Red Sox victory in the World Series; then came word of new tariffs against China around noon, and sellers of tech,...
By Sean Brodrick On October 30, 201809:30 AM Eastern
The market is coming down to near-term support. What happens next could be important. Stocks (and your portfolio) were doing well yesterday until Bloomberg News reported that President Trump was...
By Sean Brodrick On October 30, 201809:30 AM Eastern
We saw a huge swing in stocks on Monday, with the major averages giving up big gains and going into steep dives after Bloomberg News reported that President Trump was prepared to impose tariffs on...
By Jon D. Markman On October 29, 201804:10 PM Eastern
Tim Cook understands rebranding. He transformed Steve Jobs’ scrappy, innovative company into a sleepy, iterative cash cow. Now he’s trying to change the rules for big tech.
The Apple chief...
By Jon D. Markman On October 29, 201803:30 PM Eastern
Broad market indexes started today’s session with sizeable gains. But sellers of tech and industrial companies’ shares hit the tape around midday and shoved the benchmarks into the red.
Bearish...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On October 29, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Dominos are beginning to fall.
Start with Turkey.
Its yearly inflation rate has skyrocketed to a whopping 24.5%, the worst in 15 years.
But that’s actually slow in comparison to the most...
By Jon D. Markman On October 29, 201806:25 AM Eastern
A blistering smackdown in tech, media, and internet stocks accelerated on Friday, putting the S&P 500 in danger of joining the Nasdaq Composite in correction territory. The session was more than a...
By Jon D. Markman On October 26, 201804:55 PM Eastern
It is an especially bad time to be in the cable TV business. Viewership is shrinking, and now major technology companies are looking to pick off even more customers.
Apple (AAPL) is set to...
