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The House is taking a summer break - and now the stock market can get to work
Last Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson unexpectedly adjourned the U.S. House of Representatives until September. The next day, the S&P 500 SPX hit another all-time high. Coincidence? Several ...
Dow left behind as S&P 500 soars to record after record. What gives?
The S&P 500 is set to score a record finish every day of this past week while the Dow has yet to return to record territory ...
This chart shows how prices have gone up because of Trump's tariffs
Another point made by a team of economists connected to Harvard Business School is that there have already been clear price increases for American consumers due to President Donald Trump's tariffs, as ...
The rise of retail investors, in one chart
As MarketWatch reported earlier, strategists at major investment banks have acknowledged that, when it comes to the U.S. equity market these days, [retail investors appear to be in the driver's seat.] ...
Benchmark small-cap index is approaching its first ‘golden cross’ in 18 months. Here’s what history shows will come next.
Small-cap and cyclical stocks have quietly staged a breakout in July, flipping the script as the second half of 2025 tilts in ...
The Nasdaq is partying like it’s 1999. Why that might signal a stock-market selloff ahead
For anybody hunting for parallels between contemporary markets and 1999, BTIG’s Jonathan Krinsky has a chart that might be of ...