A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images It might be time to buy into small-cap stocks even though they are lagging their large-cap counterparts, some strategists say. The Russell 2000 — which tracks small-cap stocks — has dropped more
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on July 17, 2014 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images With massive spending on the new streaming platform and the costly integration of Fox, Disney is putting its stock at a vulnerable place in the near-term,
Getty Images Investors, business owners and consumers should be heeding the message that the inverted yield curve is sending, according to the researcher who pioneered the economic forecasting model. Duke University professor Campbell Harvey said people shouldn’t wait for the economic downturn he anticipates before taking preventive measures. “This is the time where you need
There’s a correlation between recent weakness in the stock market — led by certain sectors — and Elizabeth Warren’s surge in the polls, according to some analysts and strategists on Wall Street. One banking analyst, Oppenheimer’s Chris Kotowski, went so far as to title his latest research note “The Warren Correction,” where he pointed out
Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft Unity fires its rocket engine as it heads toward space. Virgin Galactic Boeing’s venture arm HorizonX announced on Tuesday that it will invest $20 million in Sir Richard Branson’s space tourism company Virgin Galactic, as the two companies hope to mature the technologies needed to make hypersonic air travel possible one day.