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The Indian stock market snapped its three-week losing streak and staged a sharp recovery, driven by favorable global and domestic cues amid US tariff-related developments, instilling fresh confidence among D-Street investors.Next, investors will monitor some key market triggers in the second week of March. Retail inflation, Donald Trump's tariff announcements, the rupee-dollar rate, foreign fund outflow, domestic and global macroeconomic data, and global market cues will dictate the market direction in the next five days.Also Read: Nifty 50 logs best week in 3 months, valuations hit multi-year lows: Bear case...

New home sales trend bends downgetty After a lengthy rise, homebuilder stocks have dropped around 30%. Time to buy? Probably not. Fundamentals began weakening last year as homebuilders continued to build their significantly large inventories even as sales tapered off. (See Oct. 4 article, "Homebuilder Optimism May Be Ending As Conditions Weaken") The homebuilder cycles New home buying tends to run in lengthy cycles. The current trend is now downwards as the number of buyers shrinks. Likely, the cause is more than a high mortgage rate. New home prices are...

Trevor Jennewine  |  The Motley FoolHow to create a will, set legacy contacts on your deviceThese four tips can help you and your loved ones sort through the digital assets after someone dies.Problem SolvedHistorically, the February after an election year has been the worst month for the U.S. stock market, according to Carson Group. Indeed, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) declined 1.4% last month as disappointing economic data and concerns about potential tariffs weighed on the stock market.Is the February dip a buying opportunity? Or is the stock market too...

Trevor Jennewine  |  The Motley FoolHistorically, February in a post-election year has been the worst month for the U.S. stock market, according to Carson Group. Indeed, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) declined 1.4% last month as disappointing economic data and concerns about potential tariffs weighed on the stock market.Is the February dip a buying opportunity? Or is the stock market too risky right now? Here's what investors should know.The S&P 500 has historically moved higher in March through AugustThe S&P 500 in the last decade has typically generated a positive...

It’s been a rough stretch for your 401(k) – and an even rougher one if your name happens to be Elon Musk. The stock market stumbled again on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 dropping over 1%, taking Tesla down with it and trimming billions from Musk’s already shrinking fortune.Before you start worrying, it looks like he’ll survive on the remaining billions!How much value has Elon Musk lost?This latest dip isn’t just another bad day for investors. It’s part of a broader pattern that’s been building since December, when Tesla hit...

Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk gestures while introducing the newly unveiled all-electric ... battery-powered Tesla Cybertruck at Tesla Design Center in Hawthorne, California on November 21, 2019. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images Tesla stock is down 46% from its December 2024 high, according to CNBC, a $677 billion loss in stock market value. That still leaves the company with $842 billion in market cap – 8.6 times Tesla’s 2024 revenue of $97.7 billion, according to Tesla’s...

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 are hovering near their 200-day moving averages, a key technical support level.The 200-day moving average is an important indicator of potential trend reversals in stocks.Traders believe an immediate bounceback is needed for stocks to avoid further declines.The stock market has entered the danger zone as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 hover near their 200-day moving averages.Both indexes are trading at the key technical support level after a 6% decline in the S&P 500 and a 9% sell-off in the Nasdaq 100 since mid-February.The...

The latest jobs report released Friday showed the construction industry increased its pace of hiring while unemployment for workers in the industry also rose. Data from the Labor Department showed that construction firms added 19,000 jobs in February, following a small gain of 4,000 in January. This marked the strongest month of growth since the third quarter of 2024. However, this growth came alongside a rise in the construction unemployment rate, which increased to 7.2% compared to the overall unemployment rate of 4.1% for the month. "The sizable jump in...

The markets sank back toward session lows on Thursday after President Trump announced that tariffs on goods and services from Mexico that fall under the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA) would be delayed until April 2. However, the president did not say the same about Canada. "After speaking with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, I have agreed that Mexico will not be required to pay Tariffs on anything that falls under the USMCA Agreement. This Agreement is until April 2nd," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "I did this as an accommodation,...

The U.S. stock market indexes pulled back their earlier increases on Thursday morning because of rising trade tariff ambiguity and pending job statistics reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 335 points while both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ Composite lost their respective values by 1% and 1.1%. In the initial part of the session, the market indexes achieved more than 1% gains before returning to previous levels while maintaining their current week declines beyond 1%. The market focuses on evaluating trade policy changes because economic expansion worries have emerged...