The Stock Market: The Stock Market Crash in the Stock Market

By Associated Press Washington post, Published: January 6 NEW YORK — Everybody knows that January predicts the stock market’s direction for the year and that the best time to sell stocks is at their spring peak. And among stock market experts, it’s a sure bet that the market will soar in the year before an [...]

The merciless arithmetic of investing in commodity producers is imposing itself on many a portfolio: Copper down a few percentage points; copper stocks cut in half. It’s nice when the swing works in your favour; when it’s conspiring against your wealth, it’s an agony not even the Marquis de Sade could dream up. The bad [...]

U.S. stocks sank in a thinly traded session Wednesday as weakness in the technology sector dragged the market lower. The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) was down 47 points, or 0.4%, in afternoon trading. The S&P 500 (SPX) eased 5 points, or less than 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite (COMP) fell 27 points, or 1%. [...]

Economists looked by MarketWatch had expected the Labor Department to report an increase in initial claims, to 410,000.Trading in U.S. stock futures followed a choppy pattern with investors on edge after the previous session’s plunge, while shares of Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO +16.10% rallied in premarket trade on better-than-expected results. Futures on the Dow Jones [...]

Roland Randall, strategist at TD Securities, said the U.S. downgrade was “another tick in the box for the long-term bears, and that’s the real concern — that it makes people a bit more pessimistic on the long-term economic outlook.” China’s Shanghai Composite Index CN:000001 -3.79% , South Korea’s Kospi KR:0100 -3.82% and Taiwan’s Taiex each [...]

Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJ1U -1.93% slumped 245 points to 11,159. Futures on the Standard & Poor’s 500 index SP1U -2.15% dropped 29.30 points to 1,168.50 and those on the Nasdaq 100 ND1U -2.28% sank 54.50 points to 2,132.50. After the close of Wall Street trading on Friday, Standard & Poor’s downgraded [...]

“People are worried about liquidity and where the economy is going and don’t see any sort of life preserver as yet,” said Doug Roberts, chief investment strategist at Channel Capital Research. On Friday, not even a better-than-expected July jobs report, which included upward revisions to May and June and a drop in the unemployment rate [...]

  Canada’s benchmark stock index was showing moderate gains at midday Wednesday as continued gains in the price of oil offset a drop in the price of gold. The S&P/TSX composite index was ahead by 19 points, or 0.14 per cent, to 13,352, with the financials and energy sectors leading the advance. The price of [...]

U.S. President Barack Obama is to meet Wednesday with senior congressional lawmakers for budget talks, the White House says. The meeting was scheduled to start at 2:50 p.m. ET. White House spokesman Jay Carney also signaled a position shift by Obama in a bid to resolve the impasse that has less than two weeks to [...]

North American stocks wavered in and out of positive territory in early trading Wednesday on hopes of a possible deal to resolve the U.S. debt-ceiling crisis, as well as strong corporate earnings south of the border. The benchmark S&P/TSX composite index was up 6.37 points, or 0.05%, to 13,339.29. shortly after markets opened. While gold [...]