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Stocks are back to key levels as the market looks for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression to fade. The S&P 500 rose 3 percent between Friday, April 10, and Friday, April 17. The index closed above its 50-day moving average for the first time since...
Earnings season began on a weak note as major banks set aside billions for credit defaults after coronavirus shut down the U.S. economy. JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Citigroup (C) and Wells Fargo (WFC) took more than $19 billion of combined loan-loss...
Stocks just had their biggest rally in 45 years on hopes the coronavirus crisis is ending. Now comes the hard part. The S&P 500 rose 12.1 percent in the holiday-shortened week between Friday, April 3, and Thursday, April 9. It was the biggest weekly gain since...
Stocks just crashed because of coronavirus. Investors responded by flocking to index ETFs in a huge way. The SPDR S&P 500 exchange-traded fund (SPY) shot back up the rankings for TradeStation's most active symbols. It not only rose two positions to reclaim the top...
Stocks just had their worse quarter since the financial crisis. Now that it's over, where are investors looking next? First, a brief review of the rocky few weeks we've just endured: At one point the S&P 500 was up 5 percent for the year. Then investors realized...
Coronavirus kept spreading last week, but investors are trying to look past the outbreak. The S&P 500 surged 10 percent between Friday, March 20, and Friday, March 27. It was the biggest weekly rally in 11 years and followed a major drop the previous week. Every...
The stock market's slide worsened last week as coronavirus forced a broad shutdown of the U.S. economy. The S&P 500 declined 15 percent between Friday, March 13, and Friday, March 20. It was the biggest weekly drop since the 2008 financial crisis. Less than 1/20...
Stocks crashed again last week, but it could have been a lot worse. At one point, the S&P 500 was down more than 16 percent because of coronavirus. If the index had remained there, it would have been the second-biggest drop since at least 1950. But then a...
Stocks tried to bounce last week as markets obsessed over the spread of coronavirus. The S&P 500 at one point was down as much as 1.8 percent, but rallied late on Friday to close up 0.6 percent. It followed the worst week since 2008 and kept the index below 3,000....