So far, 2024 is shaping up to be a strong year for stocks. With interest rates expected to fall further, it's easy to assume next year could be another win for equity investors—if only the financial ...

If you are new to investing, you have likely seen the term market capitalization while looking up stocks. It often appears ...

The stock market isn’t as boring and complicated as you might think Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The ...

A key takeaway from the above table of Dow Jones net annual returns is that the highest years are generally lower than those of the S&P 500 index, but the lows are not as low. This suggests that the ...

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Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, risk management, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) ...

Can anything stop the stock market? The U.S. economy recently weathered the worst pandemic in 100 years, the worst inflation in 40 years, and the highest interest rates in 20 years. Yet from 2019 ...

If you are a teacher, professor or instructor of students over 16 years of age looking to play a free stock market game with your class, you can use these documents to get started. Yes. You must ...

When will the next bear market happen—and when it does, how long will it take to recover? Stocks were approaching bear-market territory as recently as Monday, April 7, and forecasters across Wall ...

Ben is the former Retirement and Investing Editor for Forbes Advisor. With two decades of business and finance journalism experience, Ben has covered breaking market news, written on equity markets ...

U.S. stocks plummeted in one of their worst days of the year after the Federal Reserve forecast Wednesday it may deliver fewer shots of adrenaline for the economy in 2025 than it had earlier projected ...