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US equity investors will remain focused on President Donald Trump's attempts to force Iran to reopen
May 18 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures edged lower on Monday as rising Treasury yields and oil prices weighed on equity markets, while investors awaited key earnings from Nvidia and Walmart later
This is nightmare fuel for a historically expensive stock market that had already priced in additional rate cuts.
The S&P 500 tumbled 1.2% on Friday, the Nasdaq Composite fell 1.5% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 537 points, or 1.1%. The 30-year government bond hit its highest closing yield in nearly 20 years, at 5.127%. President Trump said that he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping “feel very similar on Iran” and both want the conflict to end.
Stocks looked set to fall again on Monday as investors continued to worry about higher inflation, with the U.S. and Iran seemingly making no progress in their ongoing peace talks. The three major indexes tumbled on Friday, dragged down by soaring U.S. Treasury yields. The lack of a peace deal to end the conflict in the Middle East has caused investors to fret about a flare-up in inflation, with shipping through the Strait of Hormuz still disrupted.
Trump told Axios "the clock is ticking" for Iran and warned if the regime doesn't make a better deal "they are going to get hit much harder."
Warsh is walking a tightrope as he tries to influence Fed policy.
Plug Power served up some promising news for investors this week.
The stock market is near highs but oil prices and yields are headwinds with Trump issuing new Iran threats. Nvidia and Walmart earnings loom.
SpaceX is fine-tuning the details of Wall Street's largest-ever initial public offering (IPO), including its ticker symbol, the exchange on which it'll trade, a pre-IPO stock split, and its targeted debut date.
Anthropic is still private, but the market around it is starting to look very public.
These three stocks are still reasonably valued, with significant growth ahead.
Paring down the central bank's balance sheet, or doing nothing at all, poses potentially dire consequences for the stock market.
Jerome Powell's successor and the Chicago Fed president foresee wildly different interest rate outcomes from the evolution of AI.
Investors step into the week after a Friday in the red, spurred by a stable of geopolitical uncertainties post Trump-Xi summit, rising bond yields, and sticky inflation.
Wall Street's rip-roaring bull market may be nearing an end, with the president himself delivering the fatal blow.
Hundreds of companies raised a combined $70 billion by selling shares to the public in the United States last year.- Hitting the road - Before a company can sell shares to the public, it has to file a detailed document called an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the US government agency that oversees financial markets, and Wall Street's de facto referee.
The S&P 500 keeps hitting record highs. The Nasdaq is surging. Semiconductor stocks have gained 64% since late March. By every headline measure, the 2026 stock market looks like one of the strongest in years. Jim Cramer thinks that reading is dangerously incomplete. And on May 11, he used Mad ...
This ETF is beating the Nasdaq and the S&P 500.
Kevin Warsh is taking the reins at the Federal Reserve.
BlackRock has discussed investing $5 billion to $10 billion in SpaceX's initial public offering next month, the Information news outlet reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. SpaceX is targeting a raise of about $75 billion at a valuation of roughly $1.75 trillion, potentially making it the biggest-ever stock market flotation. BlackRock declined to comment.
It's incredibly rare when a sitting Fed chair interjects their opinion on stock valuations -- and when this happens, it shouldn't be ignored.
As the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite ascend to the heavens, so does the likelihood of the Trump bull market taking the elevator down.
May 15 (Reuters) - A majority of SpaceX shareholders have approved a 5-for-1 stock split recommended by the company's board, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
In the closing of the recent trading day, Dollar General (DG) stood at $102.38, denoting a -2.54% move from the preceding trading day.