The stock market continued its plunge Feb. 5 amid investor concerns that experts attributed to increased uncertainty in the cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence worlds. The Nasdaq Composite was ...

Financial markets sold off hard Feb. 5, led by investor concerns about AI spending that hammered tech stocks. The broad S&P 500 fell 1.2%, losing 84.32 points to close at 6,798.40, while the Dow Jones ...

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It's smarter to invest in Nvidia than to bet on binary outcomes on Polymarket.

The Dow industrials crossed the 50000-point threshold for the first time Friday. The blue-chip average soared 2.4%, or 1,207 points, to the new record level of 50115.67. All but two of the 30 stocks ...

Stocks edged lower as investors considered surprisingly strong labor-market data, while AI jitters continued to pressure software and financial shares. Major U.S. benchmarks were mixed most of the day ...

Presidents Day 2026 is a federal holiday on Monday, Feb. 16, 2026, and while most schools close and there's no mail, some banks open on Presidents' Day as do grocery stores, but is the stock market ...

The results of Friday's consumer price index reading could set the tone for how the major stock averages end a rocky week, according to JPMorgan's trading desk. Markets have been turbulent this week, ...

U.S. stocks finished mixed on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 stumbling on its path back to record territory. Big gains for tech stocks — including a new record closing high for Nvidia Corp. — weren't ...

The researchers analyzed these groups’ trading patterns across 130 different stock return anomalies—characteristics that academic research has shown predict future stock performance. They calculated ...

We are making a handful of trades on Wednesday. We're buying 30 shares of Capital One Financial at roughly $208 each, increasing the weighting in Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust to 3.05% from 2.9% and ...

The first warning sign is that valuations and equity exposure are at stretched levels. In fact, the S&P 500 has gotten so overvalued that Howard Marks recently pointed out that J.P. Morgan research ...