^GSPC - S&P 500
| Previous Close | 2,635.96 |
| Open | 2,651.27 |
| Volume | 2,617,844,977 |
| Day's Range | 2,647.58 - 2,675.47 |
| 52 Week Range | 2,346.58 - 2,940.91 |
| Avg. Volume | 4,103,333,114 |
- Bloomberg•1 hour ago
Asia Stocks Rise on Trade Hopes, China Data: Markets Wrap
Shares in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney climbed after the S&P 500 Index hit its highest since early December on Friday. Spurring the gains was optimism around the next round of U.S.-China trade talks at month-end and data from China that alleviated concerns of a continued deterioration in China’s slowing economy. Not all was sunny on Monday, however, with S&P 500 futures dipping and the yen strengthening after Bloomberg reported that the two sides are making little progress on the key issue of intellectual property protection.
- Reuters•1 hour ago
Asia keeps calm as China cools, Brexit news awaited
Asian markets kept their nerve on Monday as data showed the Chinese economy slowed at the end of last year, underlining the urgent need for more stimulus as Beijing wrestles with the United States over trade. Investors are also waiting to hear British Prime Minister Theresa May's 'Plan B' for Brexit which is due to be presented to parliament later on Monday. "Policy makers appear to be weighing up the medium term risks of further debt growth against short term trends – hence the relatively modest stimulatory policy thus far," said Gerard Bung, a senior economist at NAB.
- Reuters•1 hour ago
Asia keeps calm as China cools, Brexit news awaited
Asian markets kept their nerve on Monday as data showed the Chinese economy slowed at the end of last year, underlining the urgent need for more stimulus as Beijing wrestles with the United States over trade. Investors are also waiting to hear British Prime Minister Theresa May's 'Plan B' for Brexit which is due to be presented to parliament later on Monday. "Policy makers appear to be weighing up the medium term risks of further debt growth against short term trends – hence the relatively modest stimulatory policy thus far," said Gerard Bung, a senior economist at NAB.
- Reuters•1 hour ago
Global Markets: Asian stocks keep calm as China economy cools, Brexit news awaited
Asian markets kept their nerve on Monday as data showed the Chinese economy slowed at the end of last year, underlining the urgent need for more stimulus as Beijing wrestles with the United States over trade. Investors are also waiting to hear British Prime Minister Theresa May's 'Plan B' for Brexit which is due to be presented to parliament later on Monday. "Policy makers appear to be weighing up the medium term risks of further debt growth against short term trends – hence the relatively modest stimulatory policy thus far," said Gerard Bung, a senior economist at NAB.
- Associated Press•3 hours ago
Asian markets advance on optimism over China-US trade
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares in Asia rose Monday, extending gains on Wall Street last week. Buying enthusiasm has been spurred by renewed hopes for progress on resolving the trade standoff between the U.S. and China. Shares rose in Shanghai and Hong Kong early Monday despite news that China's economy grew at its lowest pace in three decades last year.
- Financial Times•3 hours ago
[$$] Fee drag on retail fund performance comes into focus
Jack Bogle, the founder of Vanguard who died on Wednesday, succeeded in his 89-year life in reducing the cost of investing for millions of ordinary savers. Large discrepancies still exist between the performance of actively managed mutual funds used mainly by retail investors and comparable institutional accounts, which are reserved for large investors such as pension schemes or sovereign wealth funds. Almost 90 per cent of actively managed mutual funds that benchmark against the S&P 500 underperformed the index after fees over the 10 years ending December 2017.
- CNBC•4 hours ago
As Chinese stocks rally, here's why Tencent is flashing a major buy signal
Chinese stocks are on fire, and a technician says one of those names is flashing a major buy signal.
- Investor's Business Daily•7 hours ago
Dow Jones Futures: Netflix, Microsoft Lead 5 Giants Nearing Buy Points
Dow Jones futures fell slightly Sunday, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. The stock market rally continues to power higher last week, with the Dow Jones, S&P 500 index and Nasdaq composite all reclaiming their 50-day moving averages last week. Microsoft[ticker symb=MSFT], Netflix[ticker symb=NFLX], Adobe[ticker symb=ADBE], Salesforce.com[ticker symb=CRM] and Visa[ticker symb=V] are large-cap stock worth keeping an eye...
- CNBC•8 hours ago
The market's win streak is no fluke: A Wall Street bull sees record gains ahead
The market's win streak may be just beginning. Edward Yardeni, who spent decades on Wall Street running investment strategy for firms such as Prudential and Deutsche Bank, predicts stocks will break out to all-time highs this year. "At the end of last year the bull-bear ratio, which is something we watch from Investors Intelligence, fell below one," the Yardeni Research president told CNBC's " Trading Nation " on Friday.
- CNBC•9 hours ago
One week in, here's what we've learned from earnings season
Profit reports have been surprisingly strong compared to analyst expectations. Or at least they aren't as bad as feared.
- Barrons.com•10 hours ago
It’s a Big Week for Earnings, With More than 50 Companies Releasing Results
Fourth-quarter earnings season is in full swing, with 55 S&P 500 components releasing results in just four days this week.
Motley Fool•11 hours ago3 Things to Watch in the Stock Market This Week
Starbucks, Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson shareholders have a lot to look forward to this week.
- MarketWatch•13 hours ago
S&P 500 earnings growth estimate improves, but outlook slows further
The fourth-quarter earnings growth estimate for the S&P 500 companies has improved slightly in the past week, but was still less than half the average of the first three quarters of the year, and the growth outlook has slowed.
- Benzinga•13 hours ago
A Positive Prognosis For Health Care ETFs
Health care, the second-largest sector weight in the S&P 500 behind technology, was one of just three sectors to post positive returns last year. XLV and rival health care ETFs proved resilient last year as growth and momentum sectors fell out of favor with investors. While health care is widely viewed as a defensive sector, its 2019 earnings growth is expected to be solid.
- CNBC•13 hours ago
America's wealthy are 'in preservation mode' and don't think the market has hit a bottom: Survey
The stock market has started 2019 strong with major indexes rebounding from correction levels, yet bearishness among wealthy investors has increased in January, according to a survey from E-Trade Financial. Americans with more than $1 million in a brokerage account they self-manage are less confident in the economy and potential for market gains this quarter than they were during the volatile fourth quarter. Although January has gotten off to a strong start for the stock market, there's not a lot of confidence the market bottom has been reached, according to a survey of wealthy investors conducted this month by E-Trade Financial ETFC and provided exclusively to CNBC.
Bloomberg•14 hours agoFund Managers Who Called China Stock Bottom See More Gains Ahead
At the end of October, when Chinese shares were in freefall, the chief investment officers at Deutsche Bank Wealth Management made a bold call: the worst was over for the world’s second-largest equity market. Since the start of November, the MSCI China Index of the nation’s shares has rebounded more than 7 percent. For Christian Nolting, global chief investment officer, and Tuan Huynh, chief investment officer for Asia-Pacific, those gains are just the start.
- Motley Fool•15 hours ago
Earnings: 2 Hot Stocks to Watch This Week
These two companies' stocks have significantly outperformed the market over the past 12 months. Can they keep impressing?
- MarketWatch•15 hours ago
Here’s what low NYSE trading volume is telling us about the stock market’s direction
Some of the bearish advisers I monitor are worried that it might be, on the grounds that volume is a leading indicator and New York Stock Exchange trading volume has been trending lower. As you can see from the chart below, the five-day moving average of NYSE volume currently is a third less than where it stood in mid-December. To be sure, measuring the impact of lower trading volume is anything but straightforward, since trading volume has grown steadily over the years.
- CNBC•16 hours ago
Jack Bogle's counter-intuitive lesson on American excellence: Don't chase it
Vanguard Group founder Jack Bogle brought the concept of low-cost index funds to the individual investor. His tremendous success in upending the Wall Street brokerage and mutual fund status quo includes a counter-intuitive lesson. Americans have long been taught to reach to keep up with the Joneses and that paying more can mean getting more, but in investing, mediocrity (or the average return) has consistently beaten the search for excellence.
- Motley Fool•17 hours ago
How TripAdvisor Crushed It in 2018
Shareholders pried back all their losses from the prior year, but can the rally continue?
- Investing.com•yesterday
Economic Calendar - Top 5 Things to Watch This Week
Investing.com - Trade rhetoric could hang over the market in the coming week, as investors watch further developments surrounding the ongoing trade spat between the U.S. and China.
- Motley Fool•yesterday
The 5 Top Vanguard ETFs to Start 2019
Investors have put nearly $365 billion into this handful of funds. Find out why.
- FX Empire•yesterday
Trump’s Plan to End Shutdown Rejected; GDP Could Lose as Much as Half Percentage Point
The Trump administration said that new estimates show the cost of the government shutdown will be twice as steep as originally forecast. The original estimate showed that the partial shutdown would subtract 0.1 percentage points from growth every two weeks. That estimate has now been doubled to a 0.1 percentage point subtraction every week.
- MarketWatch•yesterday
Why investors are starting to pay attention to the government shutdown
Investors might not be able to ignore a partial U.S. government shutdown if it continues much longer, analysts say.
- MarketWatch•yesterday
Are the stock markets (and bond trading) closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day?
U.S. stock and bond markets on Monday will be closed in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, providing a natural pause after a bullish tilt on Wall Street to start 2019.
