Stocks bounced back Friday, but not enough to recover the week’s earlier losses. All three major averages posted gains — with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S & P 500 each adding about 1%, while the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.9% — after New York Fed President John Williams suggested that a December rate…
Whenever the stocks of companies that we think are attractive purely on their underlying business fundamentals start to sell off, we know we want to buy. The question is: When to buy? Valuation is the primary factor to consider. However, in a market sentiment-driven decline like we saw Thursday, valuation isn’t really the focus for…
It was a volatile week for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting an all-time high before pulling back. Wall Street pulled money away from Big Tech and into more defensive sectors, such as health care and financials. The end of the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown and expectations for interest rate cuts…
“Let’s start with something simple. I cannot recall a time this year when it feels this good to be diversified among a whole host of terrific growth stocks, because growth of all kinds always works. Until now, it’s been terrific for all of 2025 to own nothing but data center, AI, nuclear, and quantum stocks….
Third-quarter earnings reports, the Federal Reserve’s latest rate decision, and developments in the China-U.S. trade war led to some wild swings in the stock market. However, all three benchmark gauges — the S & P 500 , Nasdaq , and Dow — managed to finish in the green for the week. The U.S. central bank…
A strong start to the third-quarter earnings season has propelled the stock market back to record highs. Investors are hoping an even busier week of corporate reports — oh, and a Fed meeting — can keep the good times rolling. A wild card: President Donald Trump is in Asia for some high-stakes diplomacy. The S…
Stocks jumped for the second straight week and reached record highs Friday as Washington trade and shutdown drama took a back seat to cooler inflation data and stronger earnings. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq rose 2% and 2.3%, respectively, for the week. In fact, the S & P 500 on Friday peaked above…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Market update: Stocks are rallying on Friday, with the S & P 500 trading at a record high and extending its gains to roughly 2% this…
Wall Street’s weekly performance was near the flat line heading into Friday. Things started OK on the final trading day of the week, until President Donald Trump ‘s new China trade threats tanked the stock market. The S & P 500 lost 2.71% on Friday — the worst single-session decline since April 10, the day…
The AI data center theme is alive and well, putting the wind at the back of Club names Eaton and GE Vernova . The strength of the data center was one of Jim Cramer’s takeaways from a recent trip to Kentucky to visit a Corning factory alongside the glassmaker CEO’s and Apple boss Tim Cook….
