^GSPC - S&P 500
| Previous Close | 2,670.29 |
| Open | 2,680.80 |
| Volume | 1,759,157,062 |
| Day's Range | 2,617.32 - 2,683.55 |
| 52 Week Range | 2,352.72 - 2,872.87 |
| Avg. Volume | 3,723,718,548 |
Yahoo Finance•56 minutes agoStocks are getting smoked, and companies can't step in to stop it
Stocks were selling off hard on Tuesday as the market lost steam steadily throughout the trading day.
Yahoo Finance•22 hours agoHere's what's preventing a freefall in stocks: trader
U.S. equity markets were under pressure again today, building on the negative sentiment that emerged last week, wherein stocks moved decidedly in two directions. At the outset of the week, equity markets stepped smartly higher, and in the process, helped temporarily allay fears that a sharp move lower and retest of 2581 was in the cards after the previous week’s elevated volatility and dramatic pullback.
- The Wall Street Journal•7 minutes ago
U.S. Stocks Slide as Bond Yields Rise
U.S. stocks fell Tuesday as investors parsed a series of disappointing earnings reports from industrial giants and weighed the implications of rising government bond yields. Eight of the 11 sectors in the S&P 500 slumped, while the real estate, utilities and telecommunications sectors—generally considered safety plays because of their hefty dividends—climbed. In the Treasurys market, the benchmark U.S. government bond yield, a barometer that influences borrowing costs for consumers, corporations and state and local governments, topped 3% for the first time in more than four years.
- Forbes•7 minutes ago
The Hissy Fit In Tech: Right Or Wrong?
The analysts’ consensus for Apple on my Bloomberg shows 29 buys, 16 holds, no sells. General Electric, decades ago the biggest market capitalization in the S&P 500 just ran out of accounting mufti pufti and fights to stay above a single digit cast off. If Apple has run out of gas and Facebook needs shaking up, who is to say how technology is valued by the Street?
- The Wall Street Journal•13 minutes ago
[$$] Freeport is Worst Performer in S&P 500 as Indonesia Troubles Pound Shares
Freeport-McMoRan’s shares had their worst day in two years after the company said that its troubles mining copper in Indonesia were dragging on.
- Investor's Business Daily•17 minutes ago
10-Year Yield Clings To 2.95% As Stock-Market Losses Deepen
The 10-year yield topped 3% for the first time since January 2014, causing selling in the stock market but not in the bank stocks.
- TheStreet.com•20 minutes ago
3 New Investing Myths That Must Be Busted
The yield curve has flattened throughout 2018, causing some to fear that a recession may be right around the corner. This makes sense, as the past nine recessions all saw a yield curve inversion right ahead of the economic contraction. The difference between 2- and 10-year Treasury yields broke below 0.50% recently, reaching 0.41% just last week-the flattest it has been since September 2007.
- Reuters•28 minutes ago
World stocks drop as U.S. 10-year yields top 3 percent
A gauge of world stocks tumbled on Tuesday, relinquishing early gains after U.S. bond yields topped the 3 percent threshold for the first time in four years, while oil prices stretched above the $75 per barrel mark. Equities in Europe hit session lows before closing near the unchanged mark and U.S. stocks retreated after the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield crossed the 3 percent mark to a high of 3.003 percent, its highest since January 2014.
Reuters•28 minutes agoStocks drop as U.S. 10-year yields top 3 percent
A gauge of world stocks tumbled on Tuesday, relinquishing early gains after U.S. bond yields topped the 3 percent threshold for the first time in four years, while oil prices stretched above the $75 per barrel mark. Equities in Europe hit session lows before closing near the unchanged mark and U.S. stocks retreated after the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield crossed the 3 percent mark to a high of 3.003 percent, its highest since January 2014.
- MarketWatch•28 minutes ago
7 reasons stocks are better than real estate
You’ve heard this before: Stocks, over time, outperform real estate. There are many schools of thought on this but one common statistic that gets tossed around shows equities over the past several decades have returned an average upwards of 10% a year, while real estate is in the 4% ballpark.
Yahoo Finance Video•22 hours agoBuffett: If I had bet $114 on the S&P in 1942, I'd have had $400,000 today
Yahoo Finance's Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer sits down with Warren Buffett.
