Category: stock market

Investors Fear Higher Interest Rates Could Further Sink Stock Prices

In 2022, investors have lost more than $7.6 trillion on U.S. stocks, and experts warn these losses could mount heading into 2023. From institutional investors to retail traders, it has been a challenging year as they navigate the worst-performing market in five decades, says Bespoke Investment Group. “It is no secret that 2022 has not…


Investors Worry Higher Interest Rates Might Sink Stock Prices Further

Investors have lost more than $7.6 trillion on U.S. stocks this year, and experts are warning that the losses could mount heading into 2023. From institutional investors to retail traders, it’s been a challenging year to navigate the worst-performing market in five decades, Bespoke Investment Group says. “It is no secret that 2022 has not…


Investor Pessimism Jumps to Levels Not Seen in Nearly 13 Years

Investors are becoming increasingly bearish on stocks as persistently high inflation has compelled the Federal Reserve to hike rates aggressively, with Bank of America analysts and the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) both saying that investor pessimism has hit levels not seen since around the time of the financial crisis of 2008–09. The latest…


A New ‘Lost Decade’ for the Market?

Commentary Investors may need to prepare themselves for the possibility that the good times are over. Stock market investors have generally enjoyed a decade of great returns dating back to 2013, when the market emerged from the doldrums of the 2008 financial crisis. The S&P 500 has now lost almost 25 percent in 2022 after…


Inflation, Stock Market Meltdown Force More Retirees to ‘Unretire’

The Great Resignation or the Great Unretirement? A growing number of older Americans are “unretiring” as a cost-of-living crisis, a bear market on Wall Street, and rising interest rates send more people back to the labor market under the stress of diminished living standards. During the COVID-19 public health crisis, the U.S. economy witnessed a…


Archegos Tried to Lull Banks Before $36 Billion Firm Collapsed: Prosecutors

NEW YORK—Archegos Capital Management LP made a last-ditch effort to falsely persuade banks its survival was not at stake in an unsuccessful bid to forestall the sudden collapse of the $36 billion private investment firm, U.S. prosecutors said. The accusation came in a 12-page letter filed on Thursday night in Manhattan federal court, where Archegos’…


China’s ‘Secret Financial Empire’ Collapses in Leadup to the Vote for Next Communist Party Leader

Tomorrow Holdings, the most secretive conglomerate in China’s capital markets, is facing dismantlement by the country’s top financial regulator. On Aug. 3, the Inner Mongolia Supervisory Bureau, under China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC), announced a raft of penalties against the conglomerate. New Times Trust, one of the financial institutions of Tomorrow Holdings, was…


Are We Heading to Another Great Crash (of 1929)?

Commentary I have studied quite extensively the stock market crash of October 1929, and the Great Depression of the 1930s that followed, for a book I am writing on crisis forecasting. I recently noticed that the current economic and financial conditions have started to align with those that preceded the “Great Crash” in a rather…


Are We Heading for Another Great Crash (of 1929)?

Commentary I have studied quite extensively the stock market crash of October 1929, and the Great Depression of the 1930s that followed, for a book I am writing on crisis forecasting. I recently noticed that the current economic and financial conditions have started to align with those that preceded the “Great Crash” in a rather…


Be Careful of ‘Wash Sale Rules’ When Selling Your Investment for a Tax Loss

Buying and selling is an everyday occurrence in the stock market. So are losses, which means selling an investment at a loss is sometimes inevitable. But whether you are trying to recoup losses without losing great investments, or you simply have seller’s remorse, it is important to avoid the wash-sale rule. A wash-sale occurs when…