Timing the market is both risky and difficult to do. Averaging down can be a much more practical strategy for long-term investors. Nowadays, investors remain concerned about the potential for a market ...

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 ...

Save for the five-week COVID-19 crash in 2020 and the nine-month bear market in 2022, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite have been virtually unstoppable since the ...

It’s still the world’s best-performing stock market of 2026, but at this rate it won’t be for much longer. Jules Rimmer is a markets reporter in London.Rimmer spent more than 30 years as a trader and ...

The US stock market is trading at a 12% discount to composite of our valuations. Stocks are undervalued, but for a reason—an especially cloudy future and weakening macrodynamics are on the horizon.

Pessimists have overused the image of Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff and not falling until after doing a double-take. If U.S. troops end up in another Middle East quagmire that drives oil to $200 ...

Wall Street jumped on Monday as U.S. President Donald Trump said that a deal with Iran could be reached in five days or sooner, even as Iran refuted holding any talks with Washington. Trump posted on ...

Why would you have made more by avoiding the worst days than you would have lost out on by missing the best days? Though the average loss in the 10 worst days was slightly less than the average gain ...

The stock market enters the week ahead battered and bruised by the war in Iran. In the coming days, weary investors will also need to contend with a fresh batch of jobs data and a few stragglers on ...

The stock market marked its best day since May as the first quarter of 2026 wrapped up with renewed hope an end to the Iran war could come sooner rather than later. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...