Buying dips and selling rips has been the name of the game in the S&P 500 all summer. Options action suggests that it can continue, with VIX at recent lows and a slowdown in the wild speculative call-buying in tech that was pulling the market quickly in both directions. To an extent, that’s just the…
Michael Burry attends the premiere of “The Big Short” at Ziegfeld Theatre on Nov. 23, 2015 in New York. Dimitrios Kambouris | Getty Images Michael Burry of “The Big Short” fame said he bought shares of regulated sports-betting operators DraftKings and Flutter Entertainment, anticipating regulators will eventually crack down on prediction markets after competition from…
Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities analyst. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Dan Ives, one of Wall Street’s most recognizable technology analysts, is leaving his longtime role at Wedbush Securities to launch a merchant bank aimed at combining research, advisory, capital raising and investing under one roof. Ives, who has spent the past eight years at Wedbush and…
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 29, 2025. NYSE Small-cap U.S. stocks are capping off one of their strongest first halves in decades. But this is not your ordinary small-cap boom led by traditional businesses linked to the economic cycle. This run, like the one going on with their larger-cap peers,…
Veteran investor Jeremy Grantham thinks the artificial intelligence boom has pushed the U.S. stock market to its most expensive level ever and could eventually lead to a historic decline. “Based on the value of the stock market compared to GDP, with modifications, this is the most expensive market in American history,” Grantham told CNBC’s “Squawk…
The stock of SpaceX continues its consolidation phase on the New York Stock Exchange one week after its Nasdaq listing. Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images SpaceX became one of the quickest additions ever to the Nasdaq-100 index, setting up a fresh wave of buying from passive investors less than a month after the…
The best government bond market may be outside the United States. Allspring Global Investments’ George Bory is pushing clients toward countries whose central banks are raising interest rates or have different inflation dynamics. “Bond markets everywhere have rushed to price inflation. Places like the UK, certainly across Europe, even places like Australia — we’ve seen…
The stock of SpaceX continues its consolidation phase on the New York Stock Exchange one week after its Nasdaq listing. Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images SpaceX became one of the quickest additions ever to the Nasdaq-100 index, setting up a fresh wave of buying from passive investors less than a month after the…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit on March 11, 2026 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images The outlook for an initial public offering from artificial intelligence platform OpenAI is changing after a New York Times report said the company may delay a debut on the public market until next…
Signage for a Wendy’s restaurant in Brampton, Ontario, on April 21, 2026. Mike Campbell | Nurphoto | Getty Images Wendy’s shares failed to extend their rally for a second day on Thursday after the fast-food chain became the latest target of retail traders. The company’s stock fell nearly 7% after surging by double digits earlier…
