Stock Market

China's stock market also rose 2 percent overnight, recovering somewhat after steep drops earlier in the week triggered trading halts. Indexes wavered between small gains and losses for most of the day, but took a decisive turn lower in the last hour As turmoil in Chinese markets batters stock prices around the world, Germany has … Read more

But there are some important reasons not to panic: China's stock market reveals very little about the health of the country's economy — it's dominated by small savers who put more faith in speculative investing newsletters than economic fundamentals. As the world's second-largest economy rings in the New Year with a stock market crash, investors … Read more

That sparked violent protests against Saudis in Iran. Iran's supreme leader warned Saudi Arabia would face “divine revenge” for the crime. Teed said time will tell, but as of now, he expects oil prices to remain low for the coming weeks, and the stock Two unequal forces are fighting over China's stock market. And there … Read more

Ironically, this suspicion has fueled the post-2009 bull market longer than many expected. Bull markets climb a wall of worry and flame out in euphoria. There's been no euphoria yet. The chart below plots six different investor sentiment gauges Typically, the stock market is down the first few days of a new year. This time, … Read more

Nobel Prize-winning economist and Yale University professor Robert Shiller says that the stock market hasn't been this overvalued since the peak of the dot-com bubble in 2000, and the reason is summed up in one chart. Robert Shiller, the Nobel Prize economics laureate, told the Financial Times that fear that the U.S. stock market is … Read more

Individual investors who rushed to respond to Monday's market mayhem encountered digital roadblocks that temporarily prevented them from trading at several online brokerages, raising questions about the systems' ability to handle periods of extreme. After stocks saw their worst week in four years, markets started Monday deep in the red, with the Dow plummeting 1,089 … Read more

If you didn't notice that the stock markets in the US dropped nearly 4% today (after falling last Thursday and Friday) then you were probably completely off-the-grid and on vacation. Freefall. It was a nerve racking morning. China fell back on its major levers to stem the biggest stock market rout since 1996 and a … Read more