After a strong start to the year, emerging-market stocks have mostly traded sideways in recent months. There are plenty of reasons to expect their struggles to linger. The MSCI World Index, made up of developed-market stocks, is up almost 12% in dollar terms this year, while the EM index has risen 6%. Among the multiple […]

Call it the year of the individual investor. Nonprofessional investors are continuing to upend financial markets and build on their forceful entrance into the arena last year. In the first half of 2021, new brokerage accounts opened by individual investors have already roughly matched the total created throughout 2020, hitting more than 10 million, according […]

The S&P 500 notched a third consecutive session of declines Thursday, kept under pressure by sliding shares of materials and financial companies. Markets opened little changed and then drifted between small gains and losses throughout much of the session. While advances in technology shares helped the Nasdaq Composite end higher, both the S&P 500 and […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether the recently dismissed chairman of the auditing industry’s oversight board violated any rules in his handling of internal complaints at the regulator, according to people familiar with the matter. The SEC’s enforcement investigation is examining the actions of William Duhnke, who was dismissed from his job as […]

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell described the outlook for inflation in the U.S. economy and said there are signs that prices that have moved up quickly should cease rising and retreat. Credit: Al Drago/Associated Press Federal Reserve policy makers have pushed up the timeline on when they expect to start raising interest rates. That probably […]

Early tightening of the Federal Reserve’s policy could ripple across emerging markets that are dependent on the U.S. dollar. Prime among them is Turkey. The Turkish lira has come under pressure in recent weeks as investors try to assess whether the country’s central bank will heed the demands of its president to cut interest rates. […]

U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday after fresh data showed Americans slowed their spending last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 94.42 points, or 0.3%, to 34299.33, while the S&P 500 lost 8.56 points, or 0.2%, to 4246.59. The Nasdaq Composite slid 101.29 points, or 0.7%, to 14072.86. The latter two set record closes on […]

A group of uranium mining companies saw their stock prices plunge on Monday after news emerged that a nuclear power plant in Southeast China flagged a performance issue. It was yet another unnecessary investor meltdown. Canadian uranium mining companies Cameco and NexGen Energy dropped 10% and nearly 9%, respectively, and a basket of uranium-related companies […]

Lordstown Motors likely won’t be the only electric vehicle company to veer off the road before it has even started selling its key product. The startups that stand the best chance of meeting high investor expectations may be those focused on luxury, not utility. The would-be truck maker, which went public via a merger with […]

Updated June 14, 2021 9:30 am ET Novavax NVAX -10.09% shares got a shot in the arm from positive results for its Covid-19 vaccine. Bitcoin took another leg higher over the weekend after Elon Musk again took to Twitter. TWTR -0.59% Here’s what we’re watching as Monday’s trading activity heats up. U.S. stock futures wavered […]