^RUT - Russell 2000
| Previous Close | 1,496.54 |
| Open | 1,496.14 |
| Volume | 0 |
| Day's Range | 1,465.25 - 1,496.14 |
| 52 Week Range | 1,436.43 - 1,742.09 |
| Avg. Volume | 35,917,418 |
- Yahoo Finance Video•6 hours ago
Retailers, tech stocks hit Wall Street
Stocks getting crushed again today as there's seemingly nowhere for traders to hide. Plus - Apple is a big laggard on the Dow as Goldman cuts estimates. It's the call of the day. And - Retail wreck? Strong earnings don't help as investors look to future performance. We have the latest. Plus - stocks getting smoked but do the technicals have anything positive to say? Brian Shannon reads the charts. Catch The Final Round at 3:00 p.m. ET with Jen Rogers and markets correspondent Myles Udland.
- GuruFocus.com•4 hours ago
US Market Indexes Close Lower for a Second Day
Energy and technology lead losses
- Associated Press•4 hours ago
How major US stock indexes fared Tuesday
Stocks dropped again Tuesday as losses mounted for the world's largest technology companies. Retailers also fell, and energy companies plunged with oil prices as the market sank back into the red for the year.
- MarketWatch•10 hours ago
Small-cap death cross: buying opportunity or bear-market warning sign?
Relative immunity from tariffs had been the thesis that helped propel the small-cap Russell 2000 to highs in August, but as a less-than-stellar earnings season comes to a close, some market participants are questioning whether the thesis holds water.
- Barrons.com•yesterday
The Dow Dove 396 Points Because the Carving Started Early
Apple and tech stocks caught the worst of it in the market rout. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 1.6% to 25,017.44, while the Nasdaq plunged 3.0%, to 7028.48.
- Morningstar•2 days ago
Why Active Funds Have Outperformed in Theory But Fallen Short in Practice
This phenomenon was not exploitable, as investors couldn't purchase every fund and fees consumed all of the alpha the average dollar generated. Conventional wisdom holds that markets are zero-sum: For every winning dollar before fees there must be a losing dollar. This, coupled with the practical reality that most active stock funds have failed to keep pace with their benchmarks, is how the case for indexing has tended to be made.
- Financial Times•2 days ago
[$$] Softer US dollar cuts emerging markets some slack
FT subscribers can click here to receive Market Forces every day by email. A sense of calm prevails across currency markets (even the pound on Monday) and this is best illustrated by a US dollar that has lost some momentum.
- TheStreet.com•3 days ago
Some Observations on Technical Analysis
In fact if you do a Google search for "Death Cross on Small Caps" you will get about 34,900,000 results. Nearly 35 million citations! Unbelievable that a technical approach could get that much notice. Over the past 45 years that I have been actively involved in the markets I have found that when too many people look at the same thing like a supposed head-and-shoulders pattern on Treasury Bonds or a death cross on small caps, the signal doesn't work or doesn't play out the way they believed or hoped for.
Associated Press•4 days agoHealth care, energy companies power US stock market higher
Wall Street capped a day of volatile trading with a late-afternoon buying spree that sent U.S. stock indexes to a mostly higher finish Friday.
- GuruFocus.com•4 days ago
US Market Indexes Continue Gains Friday, Nasdaq Falls
Dow Jones closes at 25,413.22 with a gain of 0.49%
- Associated Press•4 days ago
How major US stock indexes fared Friday
U.S. stock indexes closed mostly higher Friday after another day of volatile trading. A late-afternoon wave of buying gave the S&P 500 its second gain in a row, although the benchmark index ended the week ...
Associated Press•4 days agoHealth care, energy companies power US stock market higher
A late afternoon wave of buying moved U.S. stocks higher Thursday. Gains in health care and energy companies powered the market higher. It also got a brief boost earlier after President Donald Trump expressed optimism that the U.S. and China will reach a deal to resolve their costly trade dispute.
- Yahoo Finance Video•4 days ago
PG&E could go bankrupt as a result of the Northern California wildfire
A California regulator says the state would help to keep PG&E from going bankrupt. Yahoo Finance's Adam Shapiro, Julie Hyman, Alexis Keenan, and Andy Serwer discuss with Intrepid Capital President Mark Travis.
- Yahoo Finance Video•4 days ago
Stocks continue to drop as the tech sector slows
Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous speaks to Penn Mutual Asset Management CIO Mark Heppenstall about why he thinks heightened volatility should be the focus in the markets.
