S&P 500 Index

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…

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…

It will take more than Friday’s big bounce to put to rest the fear of a bear market in stocks as uncertainty about the Federal Reserve’s ability to get a grip on inflation without sinking the economy stokes fears of stagflation — a…

What a difference a day makes. Fresh off the best percentage gain for the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -3.12% since Nov. 9, 2020, the blue-chip index was getting clobbered, along with…

An ugly end to a cruel April on Friday saw the S&P 500 post its second correction — a drop of 10% from a recent peak — so far this year. The large-cap benchmark SPX, -3.63% ended a…

To say that it has been a perilous stretch for bullish stock investors on Wall Street lately is a bit of an understatement. Marked by stomach-churning volatility and bruising losses in once-popular technology trades, the S&P 500 is…

U.S. stocks fell sharply Friday, as investors continued to weigh hawkish comments on interest rates by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell a day earlier, as well as a fresh batch of corporate earnings that…

So much for the Fed put. “‘It’s hard to know how much the U.S. Federal Reserve will need to do to get…

It’s an end of an era. That’s BlackRocks Inc.’s BLK, +1.62% Tony DeSpirito, chief investment officer in the U.S. fundamental equities division of the world’s largest asset manager, telling…

BlackRock founder Larry Fink declared that the Russia-Ukraine war is bringing the era of globalization to an end, but investors should keep in mind that the global economy and the financial system can’t turn on a…