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The stock market rallied Friday after a stronger-than-expected jobs report eased concerns that President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs could tank the U.S. economy, with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average extending their winning streaks to nine days.The S&P 500 closed at 5,686.67 — up about 1.5 percent for the day — and has now recovered all the ground it had lost since April 2, when Trump announced plans for sweeping tariffs. The Dow jumped more than 500 points to close 1.4 percent higher. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index gained 1.5 percent.Friday’s strong jobs report boosted Wall Street’s confidence...

Stocks rose on Friday as Wall Street digested a better-than-expected nonfarm payrolls report for April, which eased recession fears and lifted the S&P 500 for its longest winning streak in just over two decades.

Nice start to the day, let's hope it keeps up: Last Updated: Apr 22, 2025 9:47 a.m. EDT 38,765.85 up 595.44 1.56%

Democrats insist that Congress investigate President Donald Trump's administration over its actions just before announcing a 90-day reprieve on his so-called retaliatory tariffs this week. Trump on Wednesday announced that every country except China would receive a 90-day delay on the tariffs, with a 10% baseline on countries subject to the pause. This was a reversal from top aides who had claimed there would be no negotiations. China faced a tariff of 125% from the United States before the White House announced on Thursday that the rate was 145%. The 90-day pause announcement led to a stock market surge, with...

US stocks fell on Friday as China struck back at President Trump’s latest tariff with a total 125% tax — further escalating trade tensions between the two nations. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 254 points, or 0.6%, after plummeting 1,014.79 the day before. The index has been on a wild ride over the past week as markets struggle to absorb back-and-forth trade war news, plunging more than 4,000 points after Trump revealed his so-called “reciprocal” tariffs last Wednesday, then recovering more than 1,500 points this week after he announced a 90-day pause on most of his harsher tariffs. The...

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” White House Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing Peter Navarro said that the market is “finding a bottom” at the moment, predicted that the Dow Jones will surge in the future and argued that the gains in the S&P 500 over the past couple years “have been basically seven stocks, the magnificent seven, the AIs. Most of the stocks in the S&P 500 have gone nowhere. Now, they’re going to go crazy” due to increased investment in the United States. Navarro said, “[W]hat I see is 50,000 on the Dow....

Asia-Pacific markets rose Tuesday, rebounding from previous session's losses over U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policy and threats of even higher levies against China. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 added 1.92%. Japan's Nikkei 225 rose 5.31% while the Topix gained 5.65%. South Korea's Kospi rose 0.34% and the small-cap Kosdaq added 0.96%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index climbed 1.58%, while the Hang Seng Tech Index jumped 3.57%. Hong Kong's stock market led losses in the region on Monday, with the Hang Seng Index plummeting over 13% to log its steepest one-day decline since 1997, data from FactSet showed. Mainland China's CSI inched...

Is the stock narket almost completely manipilated? Who is actually selling (I'm not.). What group of people drove the indexes down because they hate Trump? Look closely at stocks of some major companies and you'll see that they almost identically mirror the DOW Industrials. How could that happen without computer control? Check out GPN vs. the DOW.

President Trump stood by his wide-scale tariffs, calling them a “beautiful thing to behold” that will eventually be largely supported even as the stock futures dropped Sunday evening. “They are already in effect, and a beautiful thing to behold. The Surplus with these Countries has grown during the ‘Presidency’ of Sleepy Joe Biden,” Trump blasted out on Truth Social Sunday night as he attempted to justify the action he took against around 90 nations last week. “We are going to reverse it, and reverse it QUICKLY. Some day people will realize that Tariffs, for the United States of America, are...

Stocks ended the with with steep losses after new federal data showed prices rising faster than expected, reigniting inflation fears on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 715 points on the day, falling 1.7 percent. The Nasdaq composite lost 2.7 percent and the S&P 500 index fell 2 percent. The stock slide began shortly after the Commerce Department released data showing an unexpectedly steep increase in consumer prices. The personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index rose 2.5 percent over the past year, but 2.8 percent without food and energy prices included. On a monthly basis, the...

Shares sagged Thursday in Asia, apart from China, after President Donald Trump announced he will slap 25per cent tariffs on imported cars. Trump said he was raising duties on auto imports to encourage more manufacturing in the US, but the impact will be complicated since US automakers and even foreign manufacturers with factories in the U.S. Source many of their components from around the world. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 1per cent to 37,662.36. Toyota Motor Corp stock dove 3.2per cent, while Honda Motor Co stock dipped 2.8per cent. Nissan was down 2.6per cent. Mazda Motor Corp shares dropped 6.5per...

U.S. Treasuries are now outperforming stocks since Donald Trump was elected President, and some strategists say there’s room for those gains to run. A Bloomberg gauge of U.S. sovereign debt has returned 2.1 per cent since the Nov. 5 vote, beating a gain of 1.6 per cent from the S&P 500 index including reinvested dividends. While long-end Treasuries declined on Tuesday after Trump imposed new 25 per cent trade tariffs on Canada and Mexico, the prospect of further Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts is seen giving bonds a further tailwind. Stocks meanwhile are being sold, as the outlook for global growth...

It looks like it’s Warren Buffett’s turn to say, “I told you so.” Late last year, the Berkshire Hathaway CEO was busy selling stocks when the S&P 500 logged more than 50 record closes, leading many market observers to scratch their heads. Now, the answer looks much clearer. The stock market’s 2025 slump proves Berkshire’s fourth-quarter trades to be prescient. Buffett was at odds with the bullish sentiment that marked the end of 2024, according to Berkshire’s latest 13-F filing, which tracks its holdings. In the last three months of 2024, Berkshire sold some $5 billion of Bank of America...

WASHINGTON: US stocks closed sharply lower Monday (Mar 3), after President Donald Trump slapped fresh sanctions against China and levies on Mexico and Canada neared imposition, while European defence shares soared as the European Union sought increased military spending over Ukraine. The White House said Trump had signed an executive order raising tariffs on China to 20 per cent, shortly after Trump seemed to rule out any change to the planned 25 per cent tariffs against Mexico and Canada. "The tariffs, you know, they're all set, they go into effect tomorrow," Trump said at the White House when a reporter...

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, holds more than $1 million of stock in a fashion company founded in China. He established a nonprofit that spent big on promotion but little on its mission. And he advised a roster of foreign clients, including a Czech arms maker that top Republicans have criticized for being too tight with U.S. adversaries.

Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT) stock opened as much as 12% higher on Wednesday after the company announced it would expand into financial services, including cryptocurrency funds and other investment vehicles like customized exchange-traded funds. According to a press release, the company will invest as much as $250 million into the rollout, which will launch under the brand name Truth.Fi. That investment, which is less than a third of the company's total cash pile of $700 million, will be kept under the custody of Charles Schwab. Schwab will also "broadly advise" on investments and strategies. Trump Media, which operates...

Technology stocks were rocked to their core Monday after claims made by a Chinese start-up threatened to upend the existing artificial intelligence (AI) paradigm.There’s a compelling argument that recent developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) could have vast implications for the future. Over the past couple of years, advances in generative AI have helped fuel a roaring bull market with promises of significant productivity increases. The potential windfall of increased profits has companies racing to adopt these next-generation algorithms.One of the biggest beneficiaries of these secular tailwinds has been Nvidia (NVDA 8.93%). The company’s graphic processing units (GPUs),...

Last month, during the thick of the holidays, I found myself in a rare though not totally unprecedented predicament: I wasn’t sure which way to bet on the stock market in the year ahead. In my December column, I told you there were three possible 2025 outcomes – all of them seemingly likely, and to a vexingly similar degree. I also told you that I’d come back to you when I could conclude which is, in fact, the most likely. Well, I’m back – and with an answer that has surprised me in more ways than one. Recall the three...

Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is not only married to one of the best stock-pickers in the world — turns out she and husband Paul are super savvy real-estate investors as well. Though sometimes they need a soupçon of help. The Pelosis own part of the Auberge de Soleil, a tony hotel in California’s swanky Napa Valley, whose rooms command prices as high as $2,000 a night and attract an A-list crowd. For all the cachet such an investment might provide, it underperformed for years for the Frisco power couple (per Pelosi’s own disclosure filings). That must have been disappointing, as other...

Dow ends down over 1,100 points to suffer its worst day since August after hawkish Fed rate outlook By Isabel Wang U.S. stocks finished lower on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average posting its worst day in over four months after the Federal Reserve decided to lower its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points but reduced its forecast for further rate cuts in 2025. The Dow fell 1,123.03 points, or 2.6%, to end at 42,326.87. The blue-chip index fell for a 10th straight session, logging its longest losing streak since October 1974, according to Dow Jones Market Data....