Joseph Adinolfi

As a wild week came to an end, many investors were looking to the options market for clues about where stocks might be headed next.

A sense of calm has returned to the U.S. stock market following the most volatile week of the year. But the coming days could hold new challenges as investors cast a wary eye toward Iran. The threat of an Iranian attack on Israel was "top of mind" heading into Monday's session, according to Fundstr

Wall Street may be bracing for a recession in the U.S. as a growing number of alarm bells have started ringing. But over on Main Street, the level of concern appears far more muted. Case in point: the number of times the "r word" has been mentioned during post-earnings conference calls held by the

Unwinding of the yen carry trade was blamed for exacerbating the Aug. 5 stock-market selloff. Since then, Wall Street analysts have been trying to gauge the size of the trade at its peak, in order to assess how much of it might be left standing. The latest attempt comes courtesy of a team of analys

U.S. stocks opened sharply higher on Thursday as a stock-market comeback looked set to continue. The Dow was up nearly 500 points shortly after Wall Street opened, as the latest batch of economic data pushed back on recession fears.Meanwhile, an exchange-traded fund that tracks the small-cap Russ

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's insistence that the central bank must do everything it can to protect the labor market left open the possibility of a 50-basis-point interest-rate cut next month, according to Capital Economics. The analysts said, however, that another weak jobs report for Augu

U.S. stocks opened higher on Friday as traders expected Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to soon lay the groundwork for a September interest-rate cut during a highly anticipated speech. Powell is set to speak from Jackson Hole, Wyo., at 10 a.m. Eastern time on Friday.Here is where major stock

Expectations for aggressive Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts and rising prices of commodities like crude oil helped to boost some corners of the U.S. stock market on Monday, even as indexes like the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite sank. Interest-rate sensitive sectors like consumer staples, utilitie

The threat of a U.S. recession has been at the forefront of investors' minds for more than two years now, ever since the Treasury yield curve inverted during the summer of 2022. Since then, investors have had to navigate mixed signals from markets and economic data. Fortunately, according to a numb

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