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US stock futures held steady as a weary Wall Street took comfort in signs that President Donald Trump could offer leeway ahead of the next major tariff deadline. Futures attached to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F) flatlined. Futures attached to the benchmark S&P 500 (ES=F) and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (NQ=F) ticked up 0.1%. CBOT - Delayed Quote • USD As of 8:36:50 PM EDT. Market Open. YM=F ES=F NQ=F Stocks have been rising since Trump indicated on Friday and then again on Monday that he might be "flexible"...

On an upcoming episode of the Opening Bid podcast, Trump's top economic adviser during his first term, Gary Cohn, suggested that whipsawing markets could use a dose of policy certainty. "I would tell anyone who wants to understand what's going on in markets ... that markets thrive on predictability and they thrive on uncertainty," Cohn, who is a former director of the National Economic Council and current IBM vice chair, told Yahoo Finance's Brian Sozzi. "Ambiguity is the No. 1 enemy of a market," Cohn continued. "When a company creates...

Americans continue to sour on the US economic outlook as uncertainty around President Trump's policies and higher prices weigh on consumer sentiment. The latest consumer confidence index reading from the Conference Board was 92.9 in March, below the 100.1 seen in February and the lowest level in more than four years. The expectations index, which is based on consumers' short-term outlook for income, business, and labor market conditions, ticked lower to 65.2 from 72.9 and remained below the threshold of 80 — which typically signals recession ahead — for the...

Tesla (TSLA) stock climbed almost 4% in premarket trading Monday, poised to kick the week off on a positive note amid optimism about an easing in US tariff plans. At the weekend, reports said that President Trump will hold off from bringing in tariffs on the auto sector on April 2 as was anticipated. Worries about the impact of new trade duties on Tesla's upcoming results contributed to Wall Street's recent cuts to earnings outlooks. On Monday, the electric car maker responded to complaints about a pause in its Full...

The recently dubbed "Lag Seven" players are once again... lagging. After a brief comeback on Wednesday, fueled by the Federal Reserve, most of the major tech giants lost steam by late Thursday trading. The exceptions: Nvidia (NVDA) and Meta (META), which each rose a modest 0.8% and 0.7%, respectively, with less than twenty minutes left until the closing bell. Still, nearly all of the "Magnificent Seven" stocks are off by about 20% from their 52-week highs as risk-off sentiment pervades markets on the heels of greater policy and Fed uncertainties....

US stock futures rose as investors digested reassuring signals from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell after the central bank held interest rates steady on Wednesday. Futures attached to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F) ticked up 0.2%. Futures attached to the benchmark S&P 500 (ES=F) and tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (NQ=F) rose 0.3%. CBOT - Delayed Quote • USD As of 9:05:27 PM EDT. Market Open. YM=F ES=F NQ=F The Fed's decision to keep interest rates unchanged on Wednesday was expected on Wall Street, but markets rallied, driven by a sense...

The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged in a range of 4.25%-4.5% at its March meeting on Wednesday and signaled it maintain its previously expected pace of cuts. Fed officials see the fed funds rate falling to 3.9% this year, on par with its previous December projection. The central bank also raised its respective projections for year-end PCE inflation and the unemployment rate. At the same time, it lowered its economic growth forecast, noting in the policy statement, "Uncertainty around the economic outlook has increased." 15 officials predict a rate...

As markets attempt to recover from recent sell-off action that's left the S&P 500 (^GSPC) and Nasdaq (^IXIC) in correction territory, one major catalyst this week could make or break a comeback: Wednesday's Federal Reserve policy decision. The central bank is expected to hold interest rates steady in the face of tariff uncertainties and recent growth concerns. But the simultaneous release of the Fed's quarterly forecasts, otherwise known as the Summary of Economic Projections (SEP), along with Fed Chair Jerome Powell's post-decision press conference, will be at the center of...

US stock futures held steady as Wall Street digested a second day of gains and braced for the Federal Reserve's next policy meeting. Futures attached to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F), the benchmark S&P 500 (ES=F), and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (NQ=F) remained flat. CBOT - Delayed Quote • USD As of 8:13:41 PM EDT. Market Open. YM=F ES=F NQ=F On Monday, stocks continued to recover from last week's sell-off, which saw the S&P 500 enter correction territory amid concerns about the US economy's ability to sustain President Donald...

Tariff-related concerns have sent stocks reeling over the past month, with the S&P 500 (^GSPC) down about 5% year to date as of Thursday morning. Investors may want to remember that while policy shifts are unsettling, pullbacks of 5% to 10% in the benchmark index are not uncommon. "On average, the index experiences three drawdowns of between 5% and 10% each year," Jeff Buchbinder, chief equity strategist at LPL Financial, wrote in a note to clients. “In fact, the S&P 500 has had at least one 5% pullback in 94%...