Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Nov. 21, 2025 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The S&P 500 edged higher on Friday, securing its fourth straight winning day, as traders digested inflation data that could provide further incentive for the Federal Reserve to lower interest … Read more
Panoramic view of Busan city, South Korea taken on sunrise. Alex Veprik | Moment | Getty Images SoftBank led gains in Japanese tech-related stocks Wednesday, tracking Wall Street peers, and boosting the Nikkei 225. Tech-focused investment major SoftBank rose more than 8%, snapping a three-session streak of losses. Japan’s Tokyo Electron, which provides essential chipmaking … Read more
Earnings season is winding down as we kick off the last month of 2025. Despite many headwinds — persistent inflation, slowing global growth, a record 43-day U.S. government shutdown, and geopolitical conflicts — third-quarter results were largely positive. With 95% of S & P 500 companies in, 83% have outpaced earnings expectations, while 76% have … Read more
Wall Street thinks you don’t own enough stock. Not “you,” specifically, but investors as a collective are viewed as too lightly exposed to equities given the S & P 500 is three years into a bull market and is back to within 1% of its all-time peak from a month ago. Deutsche Bank’s comprehensive investor … Read more
A few high-flying software and energy names could stumble in the near term, according to one popular technical metric. The major U.S. averages closed out a winning weak. November was a lackluster month, however, as major tech stocks were pressured by worries about high valuations and the eventual profitability of massive artificial intelligence investments. The … Read more
Wall Street is hoping that December continues its historical track record of proving one of the year’s seasonally strongest months of the year, sparking a stock market turnaround just in time for a year-end rally. Stocks are on pace to close out an uneven month. Although November, like December, is also usually strong, a pullback … Read more
This sure has been one tough market these past few weeks. One day, stocks are rallying on renewed hopes of a December Fed rate cut. The very next day, they’re weighed down by worries of an impending AI bubble. It’s no surprise that the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) — widely known as the “fear index” … Read more
Now that December is just around the corner, here is a list of proven winners in the final month of the year. December is historically a strong month for stocks. It’s the third-best month of the year for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S & P 500 since 1950, as well as the third-best … Read more
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., Nov. 26, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The Nasdaq Composite rose on Friday following a “cooling issue” at a data center that caused a disruption in assets traded at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The tech-heavy index advanced 0.2%, … Read more
The floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)/New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) in New York City. CME Group is the world’s largest and most diverse derivatives exchange. David S. Holloway | Getty Images Trading came to a standstill on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Friday following a cooling issue at one of its data centers. … Read more