For Exhausted Stock Market Pros the Choice Is Buy or Stay Home

May 10, 2025 | Markets

The stock market’s stunning rebound over the last month has largely been driven by Main Street investors buying the dip in everything in sight while professional money managers ditched US stocks, spooked by mounting fears of slowing economic growth and trade war...

China’s Consumer Deflation Extends as Tariffs Take Toll

May 9, 2025 | Markets

China’s consumer deflation extended for a third month in April as punitive tariffs imposed by the US add to a drag on prices from weak domestic demand. The consumer price index fell 0.1% from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said Saturday, similar to...

This Key Stock Market Indicator Is Flashing Red

May 9, 2025 | Markets

A stock-market indicator has entered a phase historically associated with the worst return prospects for the S&P 500 Index. The Equity Market Regime Model, a Bloomberg Intelligence tool that tracks the benchmark stock gauge and clusters periods into three...

Alphabet Shares Take $138 Billion Blow as Search Warnings Blare

May 9, 2025 | Markets

For more than a year, Alphabet Inc. shareholders have fretted over long-term risks posed by artificial intelligence to the company’s money-printing search business. This week the threat became much more immediate. Court testimony from an Apple Inc. executive on...