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

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 [...]

French bankers and officials scrambled to calm nerves on Thursday after two days of whipsaw trading that saw their banks’ market value fall and rise by billions of euros.By late in the day those efforts appeared to settle markets jittery about the health of French banks and the heavily indebted U.S. and European economies. Economists [...]

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 [...]

“The market will look for signal from Europes leaders that things are getting better. There’s a chance the market will stabilize next week,” said Terry Morris, senior equity manager at National Penn Investors Trust Company. Volatility: Will it continue? Barron’s Mike Santoli discusses extreme swings in trading and the likelihood that it will continue in [...]

US stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open on Wall Street on Friday following a traumatic day across global stock markets as investors sold off over fears the European debt crisis was spreading to Spain and Italy and economic data out of the US pointed to a slowdown in growth in the world’s [...]

513 points plunged today of Dow Jones industrial amid renewed worries about a possible double-dip recession, the U.S. deficit and Europe’s continuing debt problems.The S&P 500 fell 60 points to 1,200. The Nasdaq declined 137 points to 2,556.It was the worst day for the market since the October 2008 when stocks sank as widening mortgage [...]

The S&P 500 triggered a scary technical signal — a head and shoulders pattern in the chart — leaving investors to wonder if it’s the sign of more selling to come — or just a head fake. The so-called head and shoulders pattern is formed when the chart pattern shows three rallies, with the middle [...]

Stocks are continuing to slide in early trading on worries over the strength of the U.S. economic recovery. The economic data released in the past few days indicates that the U.S. economy is slowing down. Stocks are also falling on worries that rating agencies will downgrade U.S. triple-A credit rating despite a resolution on the [...]

US stock markets have suffered their worst week on record following another torrid day of trading despite growing hopes that the government could step in to guarantee bank deposits and lending between financial institutions. The Dow Jones fell 456.3 to 8122.2 leading to a 21pc fall over the week after the index on Thursday suffered [...]

US stock markets have suffered their worst week on record following another torrid day of trading despite growing hopes that the government could step in to guarantee bank deposits and lending between financial institutions.