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What Is the Yield Curve? Wall Street’s Recession Alarm Is Ringing.

Wall Street’s most-talked-about recession indicator is sounding its loudest alarm in two decades, intensifying concerns among investors that the U.S. economy is heading toward...

A Warren Buffett Protégée Strikes Out on Her Own

By 15, Ms. Britt Cool was president of the local farmers’ market, collecting dues from dozens of vendors. She also recruited several of her...

Elon Musk Moves to End $44 Billion Deal to Buy Twitter

Owning Twitter is tricky because the platform faces regulatory scrutiny and is embroiled in a debate over free speech online. Its business has also...

Bear Markets and Recessions Happen More Often Than You Think

Spending money can be delightful. But losing it? If you are watching big chunks of hard-earned savings disappear, losing money can be sheer misery.That’s...

When Stocks Become Bear Markets

The S&P 500 on Monday dropped into its second bear market of the pandemic, crossing a symbolic and worrisome threshold as stocks plunge following...

Wall Street’s Losing Streak Ends, but Uncertainty That Drove It Lingers

The stock market’s staggering run of losses came to an end last week, with the S&P 500 snapping a seven-week losing streak and pulling...

Stocks Rally Out of Bear Market Territory, but End Lower for a 7th Week

Janet L. Yellen, the Treasury secretary, said high food and energy prices were creating “stagflationary effects” — the combination of high inflation and a...

Stock Market Declines Can Help Long-term Investors

But does it make sense to invest in stocks now, she asked?I explained that I couldn’t give advice about buying particular stocks, and instead...

Amateur Investors Rode the Bull Up. Now the Bear Looms.

Millions of amateur investors got into the stock market during the pandemic — some gingerly, some aggressively, some determined to teach Wall Street bigwigs...

How Do Higher Interest Rates Bring Down Inflation?

This kind of communication was less common 30 years ago. But a series of Fed chairs — Alan Greenspan, Ben S. Bernanke and Janet...

Stocks Return to Earth, With the S&P 500 Nearing a Bear Market

But the downdraft has sunk the share prices of companies that represent innovation and the future, too; Amazon is down more than 30 percent...

Bitcoin Is Increasingly Acting Like Just Another Tech Stock

SAN FRANCISCO — Bitcoin was conceived more than a decade ago as “digital gold,” a long-term store of value that would resist broader economic...

Fear and Loathing Return to Tech Start-Ups

Start-up workers came into 2022 expecting another year of cash-gushing initial public offerings. Then the stock market tanked, Russia invaded Ukraine, inflation ballooned, and...

The Stock and Bond Markets Don’t Yet Know How to Cope With the Fed

On Wednesday, the S&P 500 stock index jumped 3 percent, as though all was right with the world. On Thursday, stocks collapsed, with the...

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