Wall Street is under pressure this week, but the selling in some individual names may have gone too far. The benchmark S & P 500 is on pace for its worst weekly performance in more than a year, losing more than 4%. Technology stocks were noticeably weak as investors pared exposure to the sector, pulling down the Nasdaq Composite more than 2%. A sluggish August jobs report also weighed on an already jumpy market susceptible to any sign of an economic growth slowdown. Some stocks may be due for a short-term bounce. Using the CNBC Pro Stock Screener , we…
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Combination showing Elon Musk (L), Gautam Adani (C), and Jensen Huang (R)ReutersA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.On Sept. 29, 1916, newspapers across the country announced a wealth milestone once thought to be unreachable: the world’s first billionaire.”Standard (Oil) at $2,014 makes its head a billionaire,” blared the New York Times headline, adding that Standard Oil’s soaring share price “makes John D. Rockefeller, founder and largest shareholder, almost certainly a billionaire.”More than a century after the…
Judge warns Trump of potential jail time for violating gag orderArtist: Jane RosenbergFormer President Donald Trump will not be sentenced in his New York criminal hush money case until after the Nov. 5 presidential election, a judge ruled Friday.The sentencing date, which was set for Sept. 18, will instead take place on Nov. 26, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan ruled in a four-page order.The case centers on a $130,000 payment made by Trump’s then-attorney Michael Cohen to keep porn star Stormy Daniels from speaking ahead of the 2016 presidential election about an alleged one-night stand with Trump years earlier.…
Who doesn’t love a good what-if question, so let’s ask this one:What if this baseball season had started in the middle of July instead of the last week of March? Have you thought much about how differently we’d be viewing nearly every contender in the sport?Of course you haven’t. But that’s what we’re here for. So take a look at the second-half records of all the teams that would make the postseason if the tournament started today, with the Braves and Mets both included since they’re tied for the final NL wild-card spot. First, let’s look at …The GoodPadres: 30-13Diamondbacks:…
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Nio — U.S. shares of the Chinese electric vehicle maker popped 2% after a JPMorgan upgrade to overweight from neutral. The firm said Nio could be in for a recovery rally after a tough year so far. Super Micro Computer — Shares shed 6% after JPMorgan downgraded the artificial intelligence server producer to neutral from overweight, saying there is no reason to buy the stock while uncertainty exists around regaining regulatory compliance. Super Micro said in late August that it would delay the release of its annual 10-K filing. The bank…
With the new trading month officially underway, Goldman Sachs has a strategy that may generate huge returns. Given that September is a period between earnings seasons, the bank points to buying call options — a contract to purchase shares of a specific stock at a certain strike price until a set point in time — five days before a company’s analyst day and selling them a day after as a “profitable” strategy. Using this strategy, Goldman has found that it has, on average, led to an 18% return on premium over the past 20 years. This move generated profits each…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during afternoon trading on Sept. 5, 2024.Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesThe S&P 500 fell Friday, and headed for its worst week since March 2023, as investors assessed a weaker-than-expected August jobs report and ditched technology stocks.The broad index dropped 1.7%, while the Nasdaq Composite shed 2.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 385 points, or 0.9%.”It’s a sentiment-driven move that’s largely driven by growth concerns,” said Emily Roland, John Hancock Investment Management co-chief investment strategist. “The market’s oscillating between this idea of is bad news bad news, or…
When NASA released images of Sakaka from the International Space Station in December 2020, you could have been forgiven for thinking you were staring at the moon.The weathered tops of the ancient buildings in the Saudi Arabian oasis town were almost indistinguishable from the rutted land and it was only on closer inspection you could see signs of modernity.Sakaka, once part of a caravan route in the country’s far north, is home to the kingdom’s emerging renewable energy industry, and this explains the shards of sharp light reflecting from a field of solar panels.The $320m (£243m) project, mainly funded by…
LONDON — European stocks closed lower Friday afternoon, paring earlier gains after a weaker than expected U.S. jobs report clouded global sentiment.The pan-European Stoxx 600 provisionally closed 1.15% lower, with all major bourses and almost all sectors ending in the red. Tech and mining stocks saw the biggest losses, shedding 2.39% and 2.41%, respectively. Health care stocks were a rare outlier, up just 0.02%.The benchmark ended the week down 2.5%, marking its biggest weekly loss since the early August sell-off.The fall follows declines on Wall Street after the August jobs report showed payrolls rose 142,000, less than the 161,000 forecast…
