By Mark DeCambre, MarketWatch Has the stock market hit rock bottom after a rough October? According to at least one technical analyst, the worst is over for U.S. equity benchmarks after an October that chopped substantial year-to-date gains from the S&P 500 index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average and knocked the Nasdaq Composite Index into correction territory, usually described...
It wasn't exactly a stellar end to the week; the S&P 500 lost 0.65% of its value on Friday after bumping into an unsurprising ceiling. But, in light of the big advance dished out over the course of the prior three trading days, investors were forgiving. The S&P 500 was up 2.4% last week, after falling nearly 13% from high...
It wasn't exactly a stellar end to the week; the S&P 500 lost 0.65% of its value on Friday after bumping into an unsurprising ceiling. But, in light of the big advance dished out over the course of the prior three trading days, investors were forgiving. The S&P 500 was up 2.4% last week, after falling nearly 13% from high...
By Stephanie Landsman, CNBC A long-time Wall Street market watcher is offering investors encouragement. According to LPL Financial's Ryan Detrick, the stock market's wild swings will likely fade following Tuesday's midterm elections. His case stems from history. He went back to World War II, found all of the October closes in midterm years and tracked what happened until the end...
By Stephanie Landsman, CNBC A long-time Wall Street market watcher is offering investors encouragement. According to LPL Financial's Ryan Detrick, the stock market's wild swings will likely fade following Tuesday's midterm elections. His case stems from history. He went back to World War II, found all of the October closes in midterm years and tracked what happened until the end...
If there was any doubt that the United States' jobs market has running into a headwind, it was wiped away on Friday. On the heels of an unexpectedly strong 250,000 new payrolls (versus estimates of 190,000), the unemployment rate remained at a multi-decade low of 3.7%. And, that was the least compelling piece of the October jobs report. Most of...
If there was any doubt that the United States' jobs market has running into a headwind, it was wiped away on Friday. On the heels of an unexpectedly strong 250,000 new payrolls (versus estimates of 190,000), the unemployment rate remained at a multi-decade low of 3.7%. And, that was the least compelling piece of the October jobs report. Most of...
– Acampora tells MarketWatch that the action under way in the stock market reminds him of the 1987 crash – By Mark DeCambre, MarketWatch Prominent market technician Ralph Acampora says the stock market is in bad shape and it's worse than many on Wall Street investors appreciate. A pioneer in the field of chart-based trading, Acampora said the technical damage...
– Acampora tells MarketWatch that the action under way in the stock market reminds him of the 1987 crash – By Mark DeCambre, MarketWatch Prominent market technician Ralph Acampora says the stock market is in bad shape and it's worse than many on Wall Street investors appreciate. A pioneer in the field of chart-based trading, Acampora said the technical damage...
By Keris Lahiff, CNBC FANG is getting shredded this month. Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet are down double digits in October, getting burned by a market turn toward defensive stocks over high-growth and high-momentum tech names. One technician says one of those stocks could stanch its bleeding. "Amazon is just in an astronomic climb well contained in this...
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