Mar 23, 2025 | Markets
The sense of gloom on Wall Street is putting pressure on some of the most committed backers of American exceptionalism: South Korea’s risk-seeking retail investors. These investors plowed $10.2 billion into US stocks and exchange-traded funds through March 20, a...
Mar 22, 2025 | Markets
US economic data are diverging wildly, fueling a debate over whether rising anxiety from President Donald Trump’s trade policies will push a moderating economy into a serious downturn. Surveys of sentiment among households and businesses, known as “soft data,” are...
Mar 21, 2025 | Markets
Never-ending market disruption is upending investment blueprints everywhere in 2025, while hitting sentiment across US stocks. It’s a backdrop Wall Street’s diversification-minded pros are ready to celebrate. In the grip of the tariff war, epic rotations out of...
Mar 21, 2025 | Markets
Speculative traders in the $7.5-trillion-a-day currency market turned bearish on the US dollar for the first time since Donald Trump won the US presidential election last year. Hedge funds, asset managers and other traders have amassed $932 million worth of bets that...
Mar 21, 2025 | Markets
Nike Inc. shares tumbled on Friday, sending the sportswear company’s market value below $100 billion for the first time since the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic after its earnings report signaled that revenue and profitability will remain under pressure. Its shares...
Mar 21, 2025 | Markets
Shares of Micron Technology Inc., the largest US maker of computer memory chips, fell after the company reported that margins will miss analysts’ estimates this quarter. Micron’s gross margins were 37.9% in the second quarter on an adjusted basis, the company said...
