As millions of devout Hindus get ready to take a holy dip at the Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 in Prayagraj, Sensex may also be gearing up for a dip during the 45-day-long festival season, shows historical market patterns. As stock markets have a peculiar tendency to often follow seasonal patterns, one such seasonality analysis shows […]
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Jan. 10, 2025 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Stock futures rose on Monday evening, as investors braced themselves for the first of two inflation readings due this week. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 113 points, […]
The post-Election Day rally in stock prices is fading amid forecasts that the Federal Reserve will not lower interest rates as much as expected. Prior to the opening bell Monday, the tech-heavy Nasdaq was down as much as 1%, while the broader S&P 500 was off 0.65% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was poised […]
Investments worth nearly ₹25 lakh crore in market valuation have been lost in the past four days of a severe drubbing in the equity market. A share broker reacts as Sensex and Nifty prices plummet in Kolkata. (ANI/File Photo) The market capitalisation of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)-listed firms dropped to ₹4,17,05,906.74 crore ($4.82 trillion), […]
Stocks were mixed to start the first full trading week of 2025. While the Dow Jones Industrial Average outperformed on strength in UnitedHealth Group (UNH) shares, the Nasdaq Composite fell as tech stocks continued to decline. At the close, the Dow was up 0.9% to 42,297 as UnitedHealth surged 3.9% after a release from the […]
By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Nasdaq fell on Monday, while the benchmark S&P 500 bounced off a two-month low and eked out a slight gain as U.S. Treasury yields stayed elevated with investors dialing back expectations on the pace of rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. Recent economic data have pressured equities, indicating […]
Abercrombie & Fitch Lifts Its Outlook—And Its Stock Drops 36 minutes ago Apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch lifted its end-of-year outlook today. Its shares are falling anyway. Some of that might be attributable to an iffy day for stocks, with the S&P 500 recently down about 0.1%. But the scale of Abercrombie’s (ANF) move—the shares were […]
Options traders are going bottom-fishing for bonds. It is a risky move, but one that could — with a bit of luck — result in sizable profits. That is, if the past is any guide. Demand for bullish out-of-the-money call options tied to the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF, better known by its handle […]
As many as 295 securities hit their 52-week low levels on the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) on Monday, January 13, as the broader markets continued to trade under pressure. At 1:00 pm, the NIFTY 50 index traded at 23,183, down 248 points, or 1.06%. The BSE SENSEX, meanwhile, was trading at 76,651, down […]
While Nvidia soaked up headlines in 2024 as the company continued a multi-year rise, the chipmaker didn’t finish the year on top of stocks in the S&P 500. Instead, the title for highest stock market return in 2024 belongs to Palantir, the Peter Thiel-founded software firm that specializes in data analytics, which returned 340.5% on […]