When it comes to hedging, should investors favor VIX calls or S&P 500 Index puts? The question has become central as spikes ...
The stock market was rallying broadly, but the major indexes were being held back a bit by a rotation away from megacap technology stocks. After briefly dipping in early afternoon trading, the S&P 500 ...
Trump's choice of Scott Bessent for Treasury secretary is buoying spirits at the start of a holiday-shortened week.
Barclays raised its 2025 forecast for the S&P 500 index on Monday to 6,600 from 6,500, on the back of a resilient U.S.
The Dow Jones rose 1% or nearly 450 points, while the S&P 500 made a new high of 6,020 before closing below that level with ...
The S&P 500 index has surged 31% over the past 12 months through Friday, according to FactSet data. The index ended modestly ...
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The biggest driver of stock prices continues to be expectations for how the Federal Reserve will be setting interest rates in ...
Since the start of 2023, the S&P 600 small-cap ETF has advanced around 25% as of the time of this writing. That's not bad for ...
Wild intraday market swings show how vulnerable stocks are to shifting investor moods. On Nov. 19, for example, the Dow Jones ...
The S&P 500 has bounced from its drop last week, a decline that had eroded its U.S. election bump without knocking the index ...
The Invesco QQQ Trust is a go-to ETF that tracks the Nasdaq-100 Index. It's outperformed the S&P 500 in seven out of the last ...