Equity Markets

U.S. stocks are in the midst of their longest selloff in decades. Whether they are close to bottoming is anyone’s guess.Market selloffs have long stumped strategists trying to predict when they were close to done. Some have concluded…

Investing usually uses a combination of head, heart and gut even if it’s not supposed to. And perhaps no market theme stirs “all the feels” quite like ESG.This week, a major move to cut Tesla from a closely followed environmental, social…

If the S&P 500 does enter a bear market, past experience suggests it could last awhile. Back-to-back drops left the large-cap benchmark SPX, +0.83% down 18.7% from its Jan. 3 record…

Palo Alto Networks Inc. shares rallied in the extended session Thursday after the cybersecurity company beat the Street’s expectations for the quarter and hiked its full-year guidance for a third time in a row. “We…

U.S. stock-index futures were in bounce mode Tuesday as U.S. retail sales for April came in slightly below expectations and investors awaited remarks by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell.How are stock-index futures…

OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett’s company on Monday revealed all the investment moves it made in the first quarter, when it spent more than $51 billion on stocks. But Buffett had already shared the biggest investments…

Text size Michael Nagle/Bloomberg The major U.S. stock market indexes have lost roughly…

U.S. stocks are off to their worst start to a year in more than a half-century. By some measures, they still look expensive.Wall Street often uses the ratio of a company’s share price to its earnings as a measuring stick for whether a…

Do you have the right portfolio for your retirement savings? When it comes to long-term investing, the biggest issue — by far — is overall asset allocation: How much to stocks, sectors, assets and so on. Picking…

After a volatile week, Wall Street is bracing for more losses as U.S. stock-index futures fell sharply late Sunday. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, -1.20% were last down more than…