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Dick’s Sporting Goods narrowly cleared the bar for the first quarter but a cut in its full-year earnings outlook and cautious guidance sent shares sliding Wednesday. The Pennsylvania-based retailer posted first-quarter adjusted earnings of $2.90 a share, a touch above analysts’ calls for $2.89. Although the company raised the low end of its full-year comparable sales outlook for both the Dick’s and Foot Locker franchises, Dick’s now sees earnings of $13.27 to $14.27 a share, compared with a prior range of $13.70 to $14.70.
By Tom Wilson LONDON, May 27 (Reuters) - Global shares advanced and oil prices eased on Wednesday as markets looked for signs of whether a shaky truce between the United States and Iran will be
Wall Street’s technology stocks looked set to lead markets higher again on Wednesday as investors piled further into the artificial intelligence trade and global equity benchmarks hit fresh record highs. Futures for the Nasdaq 100 were up 0.6% ahead of the opening bell, while contracts for...
Investing.com -- Goldman Sachs has raised its S&P 500 year-end target to 8,000 from 7,600 in a note on Wednesday, citing an exceptionally strong first-quarter earnings season and upgraded profit forecasts, while warning that a bumpy path lies ahead.
Inflation expectations have driven bond yields higher, which could cause the stock market to fall sharply.
Micron Technology and ON Semiconductor were the top gainers in the S&P 500, rising 19% and 9.3% respectively. Bonds rose and oil prices were mixed as the outcome of Iran negotiations remains unclear. The 10-year Treasury yield declined 0.080 percentage point to 4.490%.
May 26 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs on Tuesday raised its year-end 2026 target for the S&P 500 index to 8,000, up from 7,600, citing stronger earnings expectations following an exceptionally robust first
Goldman Sachs is sounding the alarm on what it sees as a dangerous concentration in the artificial intelligence-driven stock market rally. In a May 15 report, Goldman Sachs strategist Ben Snider said the S&P 500 has climbed 10% this year, but the gains have become heavily concentrated in ...
Micron Technology and ON Semiconductor were the top gainers in the S&P 500, rising 19% and 9.3% respectively. Bonds rose and oil prices were mixed as the outcome of Iran negotiations remains unclear. The 10-year Treasury yield declined 0.080 percentage point to 4.490%.
D-Wave's impressive valuation rally is taking a breather.
By Saeed Azhar, Twesha Dikshit and Utkarsh Hathi NEW YORK, May 26 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit record closing highs on Tuesday, as AI-fueled optimism offset anxiety over Middle East peace
The Magnificent Seven's first-quarter earnings are in the books, and the seven companies registered their best profit growth in nearly five years. All remain pillars of the S&P 500 index. Collectively, Mag 7 earnings jumped 63.2% year over year, according to a report from FactSet.
The pitch for ERShares Private-Public Crossover ETF (NYSEARCA:XOVR) is simple. You cannot buy SpaceX shares on your brokerage app, but XOVR can, and the fund packages that exposure inside a normal ticker you trade like any other ETF. XOVR now holds ~$281 million in SpaceX, which works out to about 23% of the fund. Yet ... XOVR Promised Pre IPO SpaceX Upside, But It Is Down 2% YTD While the S&P 500 Is Up 9%
By Twesha Dikshit and Utkarsh Hathi May 26 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq traded near record highs on Tuesday, with AI-fueled optimism offsetting concerns over Middle East peace talks after
May 26 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes opened higher on Tuesday, with AI-fueled optimism overshadowing concerns over Middle East peace talks after recent U.S. strikes on Iran.
It's not just monetary policy that Warsh wants to change.
Soaring Treasury yields suggest the Federal Reserve is likely to raise interest rates, and that could put downward pressure on stock prices.
In spite of the first glimmer of hope in weeks, the bad news continues to pile up for the stock market.
Investors are piling into stocks at a feverish pace. But by one measure, equities look as unattractive as they did after the dot-com bubble burst. That metric is the equity risk premium, often defined as the gap between the S&P 500’s earnings yield—the profit companies generate relative to stock valuations, expressed as a percentage—and that of the 10-year Treasury note.
Shares were mixed Tuesday in Europe and Asia after the U.S. military said it carried out what it called “self-defense” strikes in southern Iran, including on missile launch sites and boats placing mines. The attacks came even as President Donald Trump said on social media that negotiations on ending the war were “proceeding nicely.” In early European trading, Germany's DAX lost 0.7% to 25,214.08, while the CAC 40 in Paris shed 0.9% to 8,187.07.
The gap between the market’s earnings yield and bond yields has narrowed, a measure that has at times predicted subpar stock returns.
Wall Street is abuzz with next month's expected blockbuster debut of Elon Musk's rocket and satellite maker SpaceX, but few of the biggest IPOs in recent years have paid off for investors who bought in when the deals came to market. A Reuters analysis of the 50 IPOs with the highest valuations in the past five years shows that investors would have been better off buying an S&P 500 index fund about three-quarters of the time. An investor who bought each of the IPOs tracked by Reuters would be up an average of 27% through May 21.
Marvell (MRVL) stock closed the May 22 trading session at $196.33. The stock has rallied 131% year to date, by Sunday morning, May 24. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 index (SPY) is up about 9% in the same period. The company has outpaced the S&P 500, thanks to its participation in the broader ...
Federal Realty Investment Trust stock has performed in line with the broader market over the past year, while analysts remain moderately bullish about its prospects.
IPW's third-quarter fiscal 2026 results reflect a leaner, asset-light reset after the GPM divestiture, alongside cost cuts, impairments and an AI infrastructure push.
Owens Corning trades at $117.16 and has moved in lockstep with the market. Its shares have returned 7.2% over the last six months while the S&P 500 has gained 10%.
Fred Alger Management, an investment management company, released its “Alger Weatherbie Specialized Growth Fund” first-quarter 2026 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. In the first quarter of 2026, the Class A shares of the Alger Weatherbie Specialized Growth Fund underperformed the Russell 2500 Growth Index. The Information Technology and Consumer […]