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May 19 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq opened lower on Tuesday, pressured by a selloff in heavyweight chip stocks and lingering inflation concerns as Treasury yields continued to rise.
Chip stocks are tanking as Treasury yields rise amid inflation.
By Ragini Mathur and Utkarsh Hathi May 19 (Reuters) - U.S. indexes were on track to extend declines and open lower on Tuesday, weighed by a drop in chip stocks and persistent inflation worries despite
Nissan is considering using the same strategy as Tesla now that Canada has drastically lowered tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles. Meanwhile, Chinese EV makers are already angling to break into the Canadian market.
The Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF (NYSEARCA:PFFA) sits at $21.62 heading into the back half of 2026, paying a 9.5% yield that has drawn income investors looking for something between bond coupons and common stock dividends. PFFA raised its monthly payout to $0.1725 per share for 2026, up from $0.17 in 2025, extending a ... The Fed’s 2026 Cutting Path Will Make or Break PFFA’s 9.5% Yield
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The stock market has climbed a wall of worry since President Donald Trump returned to the White House on Jan. 20, 2025. Tariff fights rattled investors. Treasury yields spiked. Recession fears surfaced more than once. Yet the benchmark S&P 500 has still surged roughly 23.5% since Inauguration Day. That kind of resilience usually feels bullish. ... The Trump Bull Market Has a Very Dark Side That Could End Badly for Investors
Half of investors surveyed in Bank of America's global fund manager survey still forecast the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in the next 12 months, despite rising inflation expectations, the May survey says.
LONDON, May 19 (Reuters) - Global fund managers raised their allocation to equities by the most on record in May, driven by optimism over earnings growth and by the possibility of the Federal Reserve
Geopolitical tensions from the Iran war are raising alarms on Wall Street, with top economists warning that inflationary pressures could force the Federal Reserve into aggressive rate hikes. Inflation Fears And ‘Economic Damage’ The economic toll of the Iran war is extending far beyond rising commodity prices. According to Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, surging interest rates—highlighted by the 10-year Treasury yield jumping to 4.6%—reflect a rapidly shifting landscape. Zandi
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rae Wee Market sentiment remained fragile on Tuesday even after U.S.
Home Depot, Lowe’s, Walmart and Target report earnings this week, offering a clear picture of how consumers are faring amid inflation and high energy costs.
The reading on the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment survey has recently plummeted to near all-time lows.
NextEra and Dominion must convince state and federal regulators that combining two of the U.S.’s largest utilities will benefit customers and avoid increasing electricity bills.
<body><p>STORY: Wall Street's main indexes ended mixed on Monday, with the Dow adding about a third of a percent, the S&P 500 little changed and the tech-heavy Nasdaq shedding half a percent.</p><p>Ongoing worries about the disruption of oil supplies, inflation and elevated borrowing costs weighed on stocks and pushed the 10-year Treasury yield earlier in the session to its highest level since February 2025.</p><p>Kevin Mahn is president and chief investment officer at Hennion & Walsh Asset Management.</p><p>“Investors continue to try and digest higher oil prices, which have led to higher gas prices and introduced even more inflationary pressures into the system. So each time we hear news that the impasse in the Strait of Hormuz may be coming to an end, you see the tailwind come into the market and stocks move higher. On the flip side, each time we learn that that Strait of Hormuz is going to be locked, or at least blocked for a longer period of time, investors then get concerned, bond yields shoot up and the prospects for a rate hike as opposed to a rate cut get brought back on to the table."</p><p>The Nasdaq fell for a second consecutive session as investors took a break from the AI-driven rally that started in late March.</p><p>Seagate Technology fell almost 7%, while peer Micron shed 6%. Shares of Sandisk dropped more than 5% and Western Digital lost nearly 5%. </p><p>:: Nvidia</p><p>The world's most valuable company, Nvidia, also closed lower, ahead of its scheduled quarterly earnings report later this week.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Elsewhere in the market, shares of Regeneron tumbled almost 10% as the drugmaker's experimental treatment for melanoma missed the main goal in a late-stage trial.</p></body>
Wall Street weighed inflation concerns and counted down to Nvidia earnings.
US stock futures traded flat as Wall Street weighed inflation concerns and counted down to Nvidia (NVDA) earnings.
With the S&P 500 up nearly 9%, two of Wall Street’s most famous forecasters are urging caution. They point to geopolitical risks, inflation, and an overhyped AI bubble.
Bond yields are up and prices fall, as hotter inflation spurs talk of a Fed rate-hike. This TLT trade bets that yields will further climb.
A federal jury ruled Monday that Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and its co-founders, delivering a decisive victory to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and ending one of Silicon Valley's most closely watched courtroom battles.The jury in Oakland federal court found that Musk's claims against Altman, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, The OpenAI Foundation and Microsoft were barred by relevant statutes of limitations, rejecting the billionaire's core arguments.
In 2020, the global economy descended into recession during the Covid-19 pandemic. Central banks around the world enacted an across the board interest rate cut in an effort to stimulate activity to revive the economy. Markets responded. Bond prices rose, reducing yield significantly. 30-year mortgage rates, which started at 3.75%, fell to 3.0% by that ... Bonds Used to Be the Income Answer for Retirees. Then Came the Covered-Call ETF That Pays Over 7%.
Consumer companies could steal the spotlight as markets look to assess the health of the economy amid renewed inflation fears.
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Longleaf Partners, managed by Southeastern Asset Management, released its first-quarter 2026 investor letter. A copy of the letter is available to download here. The Fund returned -4.46% in the quarter, compared to the S&P 500’s -4.33% and the Russell 1000 Value Index’s 2.10% return. The year began similarly to the second half of 2025, with rising […]
US stocks have been predicted to start Monday trading in the red, as they ended last week, with investors continuing to worry about rising bond yields, stubborn inflation and the economic fallout from higher oil prices. Dow Jones futures were down around 262 points or 0.4%, while S&P 500...
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