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Earnings Off to Weak Start as Banks Fill Rainy Day Funds

Earnings Off to Weak Start as Banks Fill Rainy Day Funds

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 a Monster Rally. Now Comes the Hard Part

Stocks Just Had a Monster Rally. Now Comes the Hard Part

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...

The Market Saw Coronavirus Coming. Now it May See it Ending

The Market Saw Coronavirus Coming. Now it May See it Ending

Money streamed back into equities today as the stock market seemed to anticipate an end to the coronavirus lockdown. All the major indexes climbed at least 2 percent amid signs the outbreak is easing. These events helped fuel the move: Smaller European countries like...

Amazon.com Tries to Rejoin the Trillion Dollar Club as FANG Lags

Amazon.com Tries to Rejoin the Trillion Dollar Club as FANG Lags

Amazon.com is trying to regain an elite status it lost because of coronavirus: a trillion-dollar market capitalization. The e-commerce giant briefly reached that valuation in January after a strong earnings report. It proceeded to drop as much as 26 percent as...

Netflix Approaches New Highs as Volatility Fades; Oil Keeps Sliding

Netflix Approaches New Highs as Volatility Fades; Oil Keeps Sliding

Markets bounced again yesterday as investors begin to see light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel. There's no shortage of headlines. So we used TradeStation's award-winning platform to analyze the trends. Here are a few items that stood out. Netflix Is Streaming...

Are Tesla and Advanced Micro on Your List as the Market Bounces?

Are Tesla and Advanced Micro on Your List as the Market Bounces?

Is the coronavirus selloff finally ending? That was the hope this morning as Congress prepares a multi-trillion dollar bailout for the economy. The problem with huge rallies like today is that some of the biggest gainers are little more than dead-cat bounces....

19 Biggest Losers of COVID-19

19 Biggest Losers of COVID-19

It's hard to miss news headlines about COVID-19. The coronavirus outbreak has brought the world to its knees. Schools have closed, workplaces have shuttered, and many worry about the far-reaching effects of the virus on financial markets. As governments around the...

Tesla Retraces Epic Surge as Safety Plays Try to Lead a Bounce

Tesla Retraces Epic Surge as Safety Plays Try to Lead a Bounce

Markets remain very active as investors try to assess the damage from coronavirus. There's no shortage of headlines as forecasters and politicians brace for an economic slowdown. With so much going on, we wanted to focus in on three stories that might be of most use...