Fed rate hikes are extremely rare when stocks are this beat up
The S&P 500 index is down over the last three, six and 12 months, a backdrop that has accompanied just two of 76 rate increases...
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...
Bulls hoping IBM buyback opens the spigot on corporate demand
Corporate stock buybacks are expected to increase as companies take advantage of stocks’ sharp drop — and that might put a floor on the market’s...
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 —...