Rising economic and political uncertainty is starting to make stock market investors jittery. The benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC 0.39%) stock market index is down fractionally from its all-time high as I write this, but a wave of uncertainty is washing over the market right now, which has triggered some volatility over the last couple of

Prepare for stocks to rocket higher then suffer a crushing decline, the boss of a “Black Swan” fund says. “I’ve been looking for a blow-off in equities for over three years now — followed by the worst crash since 1929,” Mark Spitznagel, the founder and chief investor of Universa Investments, told Business Insider in a

Today, Feb. 9, 2026, investors confront a rare mix of accounting review, leadership shake-up, and legal scrutiny at this IT services giant. Today’s Change (-54.87%) $-12.89 Current Price $10.60 Key Data Points Market Cap $2.4B Day’s Range $10.11 – $11.42 52wk Range $10.10 – $44.20 Volume 3K Avg Vol 3.2M Gross Margin 35.77% Kyndryl (KD

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Barclays hikes bonuses for 12-year high Kalyeena Makortoff Barclays bankers will be popping the champagne corks after the lender hiked bonuses to their highest level in 12 years. Bankers will be sharing £2.2bn worth of bonuses for the 2025 financial year,

New York  —  For years, anything exposed to artificial intelligence was a hot trade on Wall Street. But today’s investors are more selective, demanding stronger evidence that companies are poised to benefit from the AI boom. Wall Street is debating whether software companies can protect their market share from AI startups’ new tools. Investors have

The first week of February was a doozy in markets. Anthropic, one of the more outspoken companies in the artificial intelligence space, rattled stocks with the seeming superpowers of its Claude chatbot, prompting a selloff across the software sector with potential obsolescence suddenly knocking at its door. Marta Norton, chief investment strategist at Empower Investments,

Bloomberg, inSpectrum (Bloomberg) — The relentless surge in memory chip prices over the past few months has driven a vast divide between winners and losers in the stock market, and investors don’t see any end in sight. Companies from game console maker Nintendo Co. to big PC brands and Apple Inc. suppliers are seeing shares

The smartest investors pay attention to the major trends shaping the economy and markets. One of the biggest themes in the stock market over the past decade has been the monster growth of the technology sector. Companies within the space are known to be innovative, adopting strategies to disrupt various industries, attract huge user bases,

My colleagues recently released Morningstar’s quarterly Market Observer report. It’s a tour de force, with sharp analysis of the factors that have driven market performance and given shape to key macro trends. Best of all, it’s studded with lots of excellent charts, like this beauty: What are you looking at? It’s the arc of US

Shares have retreated from all-time highs as investors become concerned about the company’s valuation. Palantir Technologies (PLTR +4.79%) was one of the technology industry’s best performers in 2024 and 2025 as investors became optimistic about its decision to incorporate generative artificial intelligence (AI) into its existing data analytics platform. Shares have risen 1,666% over the

These dividend stocks are worthy of income investors’ attention. You might have noticed that the stock market has become more volatile lately. Many investors are worried about a potential bubble in AI stocks. There’s uncertainty about what the Federal Reserve will do next. U.S. trade policies could change from one day to the next. These

Alphabet is already one of the most valuable companies in the world, but it’s betting big on being the biggest artificial intelligence (AI) company as well. This isn’t likely to be a particularly controversial take, but right now it looks like Alphabet (GOOG 2.42%) (GOOGL 2.46%), Google’s parent company, is looking like it will emerge as

XRP has gained market share in the crypto space over the last half-decade. XRP (XRP 0.01%) has a market capitalization of approximately $96 billion and ranks as the fifth-largest token by valuation. Due to recent sell-offs that have shaped pricing trends across the broader crypto market, XRP is actually down roughly 37% over the last

The bond market is speaking more loudly than the stock market about the likely direction of the Federal Reserve. What should investors make of President Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh to be the next Federal Reserve chair? Don’t look to the stock market for guidance. Instead, focus on the bond market. We’ve seen two things

Headwinds are mounting for a historically expensive stock market during Trump’s second, non-consecutive term. From an investment standpoint, President Donald Trump’s first term in the White House was a resounding success. When he left office on Jan. 20, 2021, Trump had overseen cumulative returns in the ageless Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI +2.47%), benchmark S&P

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Banks are speeding up the marketing period for initial public offerings in Europe, in an effort to shield new listings from the turbulence that has rocked global equity markets during Donald Trump’s first year back

Broadcom may be a household name by the end of 2026. Over the past three years, it’s been hard to find a bigger market leader than Nvidia (NVDA +8.01%). Its computing units have helped drive the AI race to new heights, and it has risen to become the world’s largest company as a result. However,

Wall Street’s foremost financial institutional has transformed from Wall Street’s bedrock to a stock market liability. From a purely statistical standpoint, Wall Street loves President Donald Trump. While getting from Point A to B was a roller-coaster ride, the widely followed Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI +2.47%), broad-based S&P 500 (^GSPC +1.97%), and growth stock-dependent

Image source: Getty Images Stock market crashes are impossible to accurately predict, but investors are always interested in when the next one’s coming. And the last fortnight might have pushed us closer to the edge. But I think there’s an upside to this. Let me explain. The AI problem There are lots of things that

It’s a potential game-changing technology. The company just needs to prove to the world that it works well enough. What’s the best next use of artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of people would say drug development. And they’d arguably be right. That’s not something for down the road, though, when AI is more refined. Recursion Pharmaceuticals