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 [...]

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%. [...]

THE Australian share market closed higher today, buoyed by bargain-hunters who helped to make up ground from the previous day’s loss. Official figures showing slower than expected wages growth helped calm inflationary expectations and also provided a boost for investors. At 16:15 (AEST) the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 56.6 points, or 1.33 per cent, higher [...]

THE Australian share market recovered early heavy losses to be only slightly lower at noon, after a negative lead from global markets overnight was offset by better-than-expected results from Telstra.At 12pm (AEST), the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 1.8 points, or 0.04 per cent, at 4139.5, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 5.1 [...]

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 [...]

US Stock market futures pointed to a sharply lower open on Wall Street Monday following on from last weeks downgrade of America’s credit rating from triple-A for the first time in history by ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P). S&P came in for significant criticism from US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the rating agency [...]

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 [...]

Investors looking for reasons  for optimism after the worst stock-market sell-off since the 2008 financial crisis probably won’t find it in Friday’s July jobs report.Economists forecast that employers added only 90,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.2 percent, according to a survey by FactSet. That would mark an improvement [...]

The economic anxiety is signaling by two-week plunge in stock prices  , but it’s also compounding the problem: Lower stock prices are shrinking Americans’ wealth, rattling their confidence and making them less inclined to spend.And employers may become even slower to hire. The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 513 points, or 4 percent, Thursday on [...]