stock market

Stocks tumbled on Friday to cap a brutal week for financial markets, as surging interest rates and foreign currency turmoil heightened recession fear.

Chris Browning joins Current to explain exactly what the stock market is, why it changes to frequently and how often you should be paying attention to it.

Chris Browning joins Current to define a ‘bear’ market and explain how to handle investments when we’re in one.

Wall Street opened the week with heavy losses that put the benchmark S&P 500 at a level considered to be a so-called bear market. Rising interest rates, the war in Ukraine and China’s economic slowdown are leading investors to reconsider what they’re willing to pay for a wide range of stocks, from high-flying tech companies to industrial conglomerates. Big swings...

Wall Street opened the week with heavy losses that put the benchmark S&P 500 at a level considered to be a so-called bear market. Rising interest rates, the war in Ukraine and China’s economic slowdown are leading investors to reconsider what they’re willing to pay for a wide range of stocks, from high-flying tech companies to industrial conglomerates. Big swings...

“Bear market” is a term used by investors to describe a steep and sustained market downturn. Technically, it’s a drop of 20% or more from recent highs.

The economic turmoil we’re dealing with every day has many feeling the pressure on their wallets. Rosie Ferrick of Somerville said she does what she can. “I drive less to save on gas. I watch for all the sales and I try to think economically. What else can I do?” Rising prices and a tanking stock market have us...

Stocks sank on Friday as investors digested disappointing earnings and rising rates, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its worst day since 2020.

Lauren Simmons was the youngest woman ever, and only the second Black woman, to trade stocks on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Now she hosts the Going Public podcast, which tells the stories of companies seeking an initial public offering. Simmons says after her story inspired people who have been left out of Wall Street, she decided...

You use one subscription while you’re active, and another while you’re (most likely) sitting still. So why are Netflix and Peloton looking so similar right now? Both have experienced slower-than-expected growth of subscribers, and that has led to a dip in the companies’ stock prices, says CNBC’s Julia Boorstin.

We are living in a meme stock moment, with huge spikes in stocks like AMC and GameStop. But companies are cautioning investors that their stock price is not connected to the health of their business. “It’s not connected to the number of movie tickets sold or the amount of popcorn sold,” says CNBC’s Julia Boorstin.

Jaydyn Carr, a fifth-grader from San Antonio, watched the GameStop stock he received as a gift from his mother skyrocket more than 5,000%.

While the broader public may have gotten its first glimpse this week of the troubling and addictive nature of trading apps like Robinhood, gambling experts, finance watchers and even rival trading apps have long been thinking about how to address these problems, NBC News reports. “The online day trader with problems is indistinguishable from the online gambling addict,” said Keith...

We take a closer look at the financial power struggle over GameStop between a major hedge fund and a group of amateur stock traders — and why it matters.

Here’s why GameStop, a company that has struggled for years, has suddenly become one of the hottest in the stock market

An army of smaller-pocketed, optimistic investors, largely fueled by Reddit, is throwing massive dollars and buy orders at the stock of GameStop — in direct opposition to a group of wealthy investors who are counting on the stock price to plunge.

Across most of America, GameStop is just a place to buy a video game

The U.S. stock market has rallied since Election Day, despite the angst in our country over the ongoing vote count. Tom Essaye, the founder of Sevens Report Research, explains why the U.S. stock market is reacting so positively to the presidential election and what it means for the future.

Sharp drops in Apple, Facebook and other big technology companies ended a miserable week on Wall Street on another sour note

No, the stock market is NOT going to crash if Donald Trump loses his re-election bid and you’re not going to lose your hard saved 401K, contrary to what he’s been saying the last several months.