By Jon D. Markman On December 20, 201803:35 PM Eastern
Investors don’t seem to like Fed Chairman Jerome Powell very much. In the wake of yesterday’s quarter-point interest rate hike, they dumped stocks. Then today, they dumped some more. The Dow...
By Mike Larson On December 20, 201803:05 PM Eastern
December has been an absolute disaster for the stock market …
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is plunging 300, 400, 500 points or more at a time.
The Russell 2000 Index has given up almost...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 20, 201811:55 AM Eastern
Weiss Ratings Upgrades 438 Bank Ratings; Downgrades 508
Ratings upgraded the financial strength ratings of 438 banks and downgraded 508 based on its analysis of third quarter 2018 results....
By Jon D. Markman On December 20, 201806:28 AM Eastern
The S&P 500 erased big morning gains and plunged on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the fourth time this year and signaled a further tightening of monetary...
By Jon D. Markman On December 19, 201803:40 PM Eastern
The S&P 500 erased gains and turned lower Wednesday after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the fourth time this year, signaled a milder path of increases over the next year, but...
By Sean Brodrick On December 19, 201810:08 AM Eastern
Uranium stocks have taken a pounding recently. While Energy Fuels (NYSE: UUUU) and Denison Mines (NYSE: DNN) finally — finally — bounced yesterday, Fission Uranium keeps going lower.
It closed...
By Juan M. Villaverde On December 19, 201808:55 AM Eastern
Big corporations have amassed giant treasure chests of customer data. They’ve stored the data in a central location. And they’ve connected their huge, centralized databases to the Internet.
In...
By Mike Larson On December 19, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Heads up: Mike will be back with his next weekly column on Wednesday, Jan. 2. Enjoy the upcoming holiday week!
Today is "Fed Day." That is, the day the Federal Reserve announces whether it will...
By Jon D. Markman On December 19, 201806:55 AM Eastern
Stocks sloshed sideways on Tuesday — a welcome break so far from two prior sessions that ended sharply lower — as investors balanced anxiety about global growth with hopes that the U.S. central...
By Jon D. Markman On December 18, 201803:29 PM Eastern
Stocks are rebounding moderately today, a nice break so far from two straight sessions that ended sharply lower, as investors balanced anxiety about global growth with hopes that the U.S. central...