Since the end of February, the three major stock market indices — the Standard & Poor’s 500, the Dow Jones industrials and the Nasdaq composite — have fallen by a few percentage points. One might ask: ...

High stock market volatility is here to stay, Goldman Sachs says. Goldman's macro strategists looked past short-term volatility drivers like the war in Iran. Market concentration and higher ...

The stock-market-timing indicator with the best long-term predictive record has just risen to its highest — and most bearish — level ever. I’m referring to the average U.S. household’s allocation to U ...

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Wall Street just had its best weekly performance of the year. The S & P 500 popped 3.4% in the holiday-shortened, four-day week that just ended, as traders grew hopeful that the U.S.-Iran war would ...

The first few months of 2026 haven given investors a lot to wrap their head around. Since the end of January, software stocks have been battered by concerns over artificial-intelligence disruption ...

The stock market initially plummeted and oil prices surged April 2 in the wake of President Donald Trump's national address of the ongoing war in Iran. Nasdaq futures saw the largest drop at 1.9% as ...

Top insights from the latest market news from Tuesday, March 31, from The Motley Fool analysts on Team Rule Breakers and Team Hidden Gems. By The Motley Fool Team, Buck Hartzell, Karl Thiel, and Emily ...

The war with Iran will remain the dominant driver of the market action in the week ahead, as investors hope for a resolution to the conflict. But it will influence the market in other ways too: On ...