Elena Popina

Equity investors can exhale.

Everyone’s favorite AI play has accounted for a third of the S&P’s gain so far this year.

Nvidia Corp., the world’s third-largest company by market value, is turning into a casino for the YOLO trading crowd.

The options market is more concerned about a potentially big move in the S&P 500 Index off of the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate decision Wednesday than it’s been at any point in almost a year.

A glitch prevented prices from printing on the biggest US equity index for over an hour Thursday morning, but did not affect individual stocks and resulted in only minor disruptions.

Investors are showing growing doubts about the resilience of the US stock market’s advance as the calendar flips to a historically feeble stretch and questions swirl around the prospect of Federal Reserve monetary easing.

The violent stock market selloff last week triggered by fears that the Federal Reserve missed its chance to help a faltering US economy ended one rotation trade and may have started another, leaving investors guessing where equities go from here.

Zero-day options on the S&P 500 Index surpassed all other expirations combined in the fourth quarter for the first time ever, the latest milestone to mark the growing dominance of the short-term contracts.

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek rocked global technology stocks Monday, raising questions over America’s technological dominance.

The already-faltering US stock market is set for deeper losses should the government shutdown last another week or longer, the latest Markets Pulse survey showed.