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The S&P 500's (^GSPC) macro moment may be over. As tariff news whipsawed markets to start the second quarter, stocks moved roughly in unison. In April, the one-month correlation of stock movements within the benchmark index soared to nearly 0.7, a level only seen in the past five years when the Federal Reserve began hiking interest rates in 2022 and during the onset of the pandemic. But as President Trump has dialed back the height of his tariffs on other nations, the correlation between stocks in the S&P 500 has...

US Stock Market Live: Futures on Wall Street are currently trading with losses, indicating a negative start to the trading day on Wednesday. In-line with analyst expectations, the dip that came on Wall Street during Tuesday's trading session got bought into and the indices ended off the lows of the day. For now, the Dow futures are trading 220 points lower, while futures on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are down 30 points and 130 points respectively. Watch this space for all the live updates.US Stock Market Live: Futures on...

US Stock Market Live: Futures on Wall Street are currently trading with losses, indicating a negative start to the trading day on Wednesday. In-line with analyst expectations, the dip that came on Wall Street during Tuesday's trading session got bought into and the indices ended off the lows of the day. For now, the Dow futures are trading 220 points lower, while futures on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are down 30 points and 130 points respectively. Watch this space for all the live updates.US Stock Market Live: Futures on...

US Stock Market Highlights: US stocks slipped on Tuesday (May 20) as the tech-driven rally lost momentum. The S&P 500 fell 0.39% to close at 5,940.46, while the Nasdaq Composite declined 0.38% to 19,142.71. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 114.83 points, or 0.27%, ending at 42,677.24. Tech stocks, which had powered the market’s gains over the past six sessions, saw broad declines.US Stock Market Highlights:  US stocks slipped on Tuesday (May 20) as the tech-driven rally lost momentum. The S&P 500 fell 0.39% to close at 5,940.46, while the...

U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday, ending a six-day winning streak for the S&P 500, as losses in Big Tech weighed on major indexes.The S&P 500 declined 0.4%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 114.83 points, or 0.3%, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite closed 0.4% lower.Alphabet and Amazon both fell more than 1%, while Apple and Nvidia dropped about 0.9% each.Out of the “Magnificent Seven” tech stocks, the only one to post a gain was Tesla. Shares of the electric-car maker rose 0.5% after Chief Executive Elon Musk said that he...

It was another gap-down day for the main equity indexes with earnings season winding down and no hard economic data incoming to move markets. However, there was no recovery late Tuesday.What looks like relatively normal price action still masks many questions about the impact of the Trump administration's policy on global trade and broad sentiment.As Morgan Stanley Director of Global Research Katy Huberty writes in a May 20 summary of her firm's recently published research, "Earnings season has turned out to be better than feared, in terms of both EPS...

The former chipmaking king faces an existential crisis. Intel (INTC -0.51%) was once a reliable blue chip stalwart for long-term investors. As the world's largest manufacturer of x86 CPUs for PCs and servers, it generated stable growth, consistently bought back its own shares, and paid a dependable dividend. Unfortunately, its net income has declined for the past six consecutive years, it hasn't bought back any shares over the past four years, and it suspended its dividend at the end of 2024. Its stock price plummeted more than 60% over the...

After a massive drawdown in the initial reaction to President Trump's April 2 tariffs, major stock indexes have roared back. But following six straight days of gains that have brought the S&P 500 within 3% of a new all-time high, some on Wall Street are cautioning that the next move in markets might not be definitively higher. "I do think there is some complacency ," Charles Schwab chief investment strategist Liz Ann Sonders told Yahoo Finance. Sonders pointed out that at the bottom of the drawdown, investor sentiment hit historically...

Investors are incredibly negative on Alphabet (GOOG 0.20%) (GOOGL 0.17%) stock. On the surface, they may have a good reason to be, as Alphabet's primary business is under attack from all directions. There are three primary threats to Alphabet's current operation: AI, economic headwinds, and government. All three of these could spell trouble for Alphabet, but I still think that these concerns aren't enough to warrant Alphabet's dirt cheap stock price. Alphabet's stock rarely gets this cheap, and right now could be a once-in-a-decade opportunity to scoop up shares at...

After a massive drawdown in the initial reaction to President Trump's April 2 tariffs, major stock indexes have roared back. But following six straight days of gains that have brought the S&P 500 within 3% of a new all-time high, some on Wall Street are cautioning that the next move in markets might not be definitively higher. "I do think there is some complacency ," Charles Schwab chief investment strategist Liz Ann Sonders told Yahoo Finance. Sonders pointed out that at the bottom of the drawdown, investor sentiment hit historically...