Stocks pushed to the brink of a bear market on Christmas Eve
By the thinnest of margins, the S&P 500 was spared its first 20 percent decline since 2009, a record run for the bulls. Some observers...
Worst day of an awful year leaves no corner of U.S. financial markets unscathed
There was no place to hide from Tuesday’s market declines: The S&P 500 erased its gain for 2018, oil tumbled to a one-year low and...
Big days are all bad ones as stocks punish optimists yet again
On Tuesday, stock-market investors were treated to a session of price swings that would have ranked with the worst of the preceding two years —...
Speed of stock rally getting historic on eve of big earnings season
Up eight times in the first nine days of 2018, the S&P 500 has broken away from a trend line — its 200-day moving average...
Highflying tech stocks run into wall, fall sharply Friday
Accounts of what spurred the decline in technology stocks ranged from bearish tweets by a short seller to a cautious note from Goldman Sachs Group.