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US stocks rallied, on Monday, after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite closed out their first three-quarter losing streak since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and the Dow logged its first such span of losses since 2015.The benchmark S&P 500 index soared 2.4%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped …

Stocks are having a mixed performance on Friday as traders looked to close out an awful week that brought the S&P 500 to a new 2022 low. The S&P 500 was up 0.55%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 52 points, or 0.18%, while the Nasdaq Composite was 1.02% higher. …

Shares sell off began on Thursday as the dollar slightly slid and eased its domination over currency markets amid recession fears that quake the stocks and bonds markets suffering more interest rate pain.After a partial rebound on Wednesday, US stocks sharply fell on Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell …

More pain for equities seems to constitute a new status quo. Wall Street’s main indexes sank deeper Tuesday after earlier rally in stocks on positive economic data. The latest retreat comes after Fed policymakers defended more interest rate hikes even at the risk of slowing economic growth.The benchmark S&P 500 …

US stocks and oil prices declined in choppy trading on Monday, even as the dollar and Treasury yields rose, as Wall Street digested a raft of what it read as negative macroeconomic news.With markets already jittery from central bank signals of additional interest rate hikes, U.K. government fiscal plans released …

Most investors are worried about an aggressive Fed’s hike that could knock the US economy into a recession. At the time of writing, the USD/CAD is trading at 1.3293, above its opening price by 0.51%. The Canadian dollar weakened versus the solid US dollar, piercing the 1.3300 mark briefly during …

Several Wall Street banks raised expectations this week for the Federal Reserve’s next rate hike. Economists at Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Nomura now anticipate a 75 basis-point rate increase at their next FOMC meeting, this is up from previous forecasts of a half percentage-point hike.Following remarks by Fed …

US Stocks abandoned an early stumble and rose in morning trading on Wall Street Thursday, keeping the market on track to break a three week losing streak.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 133 points, or 0.4%, to 31,720 and the Nasdaq rose 0.6%.The S&P 500 rose 0.5% as of 10:58 …

The US dollar extended its gains, ending Tuesday higher against most rival currencies. The EUR and the JPY were the worst performers, falling to multi-year lows against their American rival. EUR/USD traded as low as 0.9863, now hovering around 0.9900, while USD/JPY trades a handful of pips below 143.07, a …

Markets are becoming harder and harder to predict in 2022. One of the biggest questions, right now, is whether a reliable common measure of volatility can work and show risk direction.Traders lack a reliable measure of the risk level when they have to make investment decisions. Instead, they derive direction …