“There’s a potential for an earnings recession, meaning you have a couple of quarters of negative earnings growth,” said Mike Wilson, chief U.S. equity strategist at Morgan Stanley, who thinks […]
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Back to news homeGlobal Markets Swoon as Worries Mount Over Superpowers’ Plans
Investors on three continents dumped stocks on Monday, fretting that the governments of the world’s two largest economies — China and the United States — would act in ways that […]
The S&P 500 drops for a fifth day, its worst stretch since February.
U.S. stocks fell for a fifth straight day on Friday, with the S&P 500 ending the week down 1.7 percent in its longest losing streak since February.For the day, the […]
Virus Headwinds Hit Wall St. After Months of Smooth Sailing
On Monday, investors behaved as they had during the pandemic’s early days, pouring money into so-called stay-at-home stocks, whose business models appear almost tailor-made to thrive despite lockdowns. Shares of […]
Halfway Through 2021, the Hot Stocks Are Old-Fashioned
The company sells a surprising amount of its sculpting lipstick, stay-in-place foundation and skin care creams at airports. Ms. Perin Vinton is betting, in part, that the company’s sales will […]
Stocks Drop as Wall Street’s Unease Stretches to a Fourth Day
Stocks headed for their biggest daily decline in a month on Friday, capping a week of turbulence on Wall Street as investors struggled to calibrate their expectations for inflation and […]
Booming Stock Market Helps California Bounce Back from Pandemic
In the early days of the pandemic, no one would have looked to the stock market for salvation. From February to late March last year, the S&P 500 suffered one […]
Now That Everyone Is Bullish, Be Cautious
As businesses shuttered and workers stayed home, the gross domestic product, a broad measure of goods and services, plummeted in the United States. G.D.P. dropped 5 percent in the first […]
Why Market Investors Are Now Troubled by Signs of Surging Growth
Investors had no trouble gliding past the death and economic devastation wrought by the pandemic last year to drive the market to record highs. An increasingly healthy economy is what’s […]
Companies Say They Care About the Climate. Their Actions Fall Short.
There has been some progress by companies that have rigorous targets. In a report last month, Science Based Targets, which was started by the environmental groups and hundreds of businesses […]