Equity Markets

FOMO, or the “fear of missing out,” is a well-known social-media phenomenon. Now, one investment strategist says she is OMO—“OK missing out”—when it comes to this year’s stock market rally because she’s nervous about earnings and how…
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South Korea is trying to pull a Japan, setting its stock market afire with corporate governance reform. Korea has a tougher hill to climb. Wednesday’s legislative elections probably won’t make progress any easier. The opposition…
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Stocks fell Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average clocking in its worst weekly performance in over a year. Levi Strauss reported fiscal first-quarter adjusted earnings that beat analysts’…
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How now, Dow Jones 40,000? The doughty blue-chip index is knocking on another big, millennial number, but it’s just one of the records being set throughout world equity markets. Megacap tech stocks have powered the benchmark…
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Stock market today: BSE Sensex and Nifty50, the Indian equity benchmark indices, tanked in trade on Tuesday on weak signals from Asian markets, coupled with a decline in IT stocks. Nifty50 dipped below the 22,000 mark.Meanwhile, the Bank…
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One hundred twenty-five years ago, the Dow Jones Industrial Average made its debut.The index of 12 smokestack companies closed that first trading day, May 26, 1896, at 40.94. It included General Electric Co.…
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The Russell 2000 index, which gauges the performance of small-capitalization stocks, ended Thursday down more than 20% from its recent high, meeting the commonly used definition of a bear market. The index…
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Chinese consumer stocks sold off Monday as investors’ attention turned to Covid-19 once again as the country’s infections rise and virus-related deaths were reported for the first time in almost six months. Restaurant,…
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Fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are on the rise, prompting analysts and traders to weigh the potential financial-market shock waves.“If Russia invades Ukraine, the trade is buy TY,” wrote Brent Donnelly, president of Spectra…
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