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U.S. stock benchmarks shook off sharp opening losses Monday to stage the sharpest reversal since late March, with stocks closing higher after the Federal Reserve said it would expand an existing stimulus program to allow it to buy individual corporate bonds. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.61% added 158 points, 0.6%, to close near 25,763, after being down by as many as 762 points, or nearly 3%; while the S&P 500 SPX, +0.83% rose 25 points or 0.8%, to close near 3,067. The Nasdaq Composite COMP, +1.43% jumped 137 points, 1.4%, ending trading near 9,726. The turnaround for the...

London (CNN Business)The stocks mega-rally hit a roadblock: A somber economic outlook from the US Federal Reserve and the 2 millionth coronavirus case in the United States has investors questioning whether they had boosted the stock market too far, too fast. p.US stocks plummeted in New York, with the Dow (INDU) falling some 1,700 points at its low point. The index was down 1,675 points, or 6.2% with one hour left in the trading day. The S&P 500 (SPX) plummeted 5.5%, and the Nasdaq Composite (COMP) fell 4.8%. The Nasdaq had soared to all-time highs on each of the past...

Ten thousand examples of bias — all at once. ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows repeated the bias of the night before by ignoring a huge investment milestone.

Largest short positions recorded for NYSE and NASDAQ. Other stories report the short positions (Large institutions having positions that profit when the market goes down) are VERY large.

Wall Street futures surged higher Tuesday as markets shrugged off concerns over U.S.-China tensions and looked to improving coronavirus infection data, as well as the re-opening of major economies around the world. With all 50 U.S. states now operating under some form of lockdown easing, and countries from Japan to the United Kingdom lifting stay-at-home orders and allowing stores and small business to re-open, investors are betting that the worst of the pandemic, which has taken nearly 350,000 lives around the world, has passed. U.S.-China tensions remain simmering, however, and White House National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien warned over the weekend...

Stock roared Tuesday coming off the holiday weekend,The Dow Jones industrial average shot up nearly 600 points Tuesday, about 2.5 percent, on the heels of its 3.3 percent gain last week. The New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday reopened its floor, allowing traders back on under restrictions that include temperature checks, social distancing, masks and Plexiglas barriers. The pandemic forced it to shift to all-electronic trades on March 23. European markets swelled on Tuesday. The French CAC was up 1.24 percent, Britain’s FTSE 100 was up 1 percent and the German Dax gained .87 percent in mid-day trading. Asian markets...

U.S. stocks soared higher Thursday as the government came closer to approving a $2 trillion stimulus package to combat the coronavirus pandemic, capping a three-day rally that has pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average into a bull market. The Dow industrials finished the day up 1351.62 points, or 6.4%, to close at 22,552.17, launching the blue-chip index back into bull market territory. The jump ends an 11-day bear market for the index—the shortest in history for the index—which reached its bear-market low just three days ago. The rapid plunge out of, and then back into, a bull market underscores just...

Dow Industrials are up by 3% in first half hour of trading. This begins a third day of market increases, even after record unemployment claims of 3.283 million announce prior to market open.

"We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself," tweeted the president on Sunday night, adding that, after the current 15-day shutdown, "we will make a decision as to which way we want to go." President Trump is said to be privately expressing a deepening concern at the damage the coronavirus shutdown is doing to the U.S. economy and debating whether it can be safely reopened. Though castigated for his remark, Trump has a point. The U.S. is rightly using extreme measures to meet the threat and control the virus that threatens the lives of millions of Americans,...

U.S. Stock Futures S&P +87.00 / +3.92% Level 2,307.50 Nasdaq +249.50 / +3.57% Level 7,234.00 Dow +701.00 / +3.79% Level 19,198.00 Data as of 10:44pm E

DOW JONES FUTURES (I:DJI) 19,076.00 -905.00 (-4.74%) NASDAQ FUTURES(I:COMPX) 6,979.00 -246.25 (-3.53%) S&P 500 FUTURES (INX) 2,317.25 -96.75 (-4.18%)

While our nation fights the novel coronavirus for our health and physical well-being many Americans are also waging a daily battle in the financial markets as we see historic and unprecedented volatility. Many investors can only be left in a constantly shifting cycle of awe, confusion, and grief as one day the Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 1,000-2,000 points, jumps up similarly or the same, and so on and so forth. Monday saw perhaps the worst of that as the 10% rally from the Friday prior faded as the day closed the day down almost 3,000 points.  In some ways...

Main Street investors have increased their buying of stocks during the current market downdraft. Where is all the selling pressure coming from? Wall Street short sellers are attacking the market to make a killing, tank the economy, and get Trump out of office. Trump must reinstate the uptick rule to stop this now! Recent data shows that main street investors have increased their buying of stocks during the current dramatic downturn. And yet the market is tanking—the Dow closed down 9.99% today. Where is all the selling pressure coming from? It is from short sellers who are using the coronavirus...

Futures up - +1,057. Interesting that it drops so far and swings so far back up. Seems somewhat manipulated. Causing margin calls on purpose? Where's the SEC? lol.

So how did that March 2, “economic shutdown” work out for actress Patricia Arquette? Just recently, the lefty star took to Instagram to call on her 146,000 followers to cause an “economic shut down” on March 2, by not purchasing “anything” that day. After coronavirus fears had already caused drastic drops in the market, the Dow Jones Industrial Average spiked 1,294.3 points, for its “biggest point gain ever,” according to CNBC March 2. But that wasn’t all. The S&P 500 also had its “biggest point gain ever,” roaring 136.01 points on Monday.

After the worst week on Wall Street since 2008, investors are waking up to the all-too-familiar news of more coronavirus cases worldwide, and falling global stocks. The second U.S. death from the virus was reported on Sunday. Asian and European stocks started Monday positively — as central banks around the world sparked hopes of interest-rate cuts. But they moved into the red after an OECD report warned that the virus economic impact was “severe” and putting “the world economy at risk.” U.S. futures followed suit on a volatile morning. → More >>>

Today, Vice President Mike Pence and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced the addition of the following individuals to the President’s Coronavirus Task Force:Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the TreasuryDr. Jerome Adams, Surgeon General of the United StatesLarry Kudlow, Director of the National Economic CouncilEarlier today, the Vice President announced the addition of White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx to the task force. Additional members can be found here.  

Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney argued on Thursday that the Democrats' pushback against President Trump for his messaging on the coronavirus outbreak is fueling panic and driving down the stock market. “What some of the leading Democrats have been saying about the president’s performance on the virus, I think they’ve been creating a level of panic here and that’s not helping the market,” Varney told, “Fox & Friends.” “If that’s not drumming up some panic, which actually encourages the downside move for the market, I don’t know what is. Politics is a factor,” Varney said.

U.S. stock futures pointed to sharp declines on Wall Street at the open on Monday as the number of coronavirus cases outside China surged, stoking fears of a prolonged global economic slowdown from the virus spreading. As of 7:47 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were down 774 points, indicating a drop of 767 points at the open. Dow futures were down more than 800 points earlier in the session. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures were down by 2.5% and 2.8%, respectively. Futures pointed to the biggest one-day points drop for the Dow since August, when the 30-stock...

The coronavirus outbreak has closed factories, curbed spending and disrupted supply chains in the world's second-largest economy. But U.S. stocks have held close to records. The market's resilience stands in contrast to how quickly the epidemic has spread and how difficult it has been to assess the accuracy of information coming out of China, money managers say. "We're surprised at how sanguine the market is," said Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani, chief investment officer of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s private wealth-management group, adding that "realistically, the data are very, very uncertain." Markets had initially lost ground after officials reported the outbreak had spread...