Though President Donald Trump’s tariff and trade policy may garner the headlines, something more fundamental is at risk of derailing this high-flying stock market. The third year of Wall Street’s bull market rally didn’t disappoint. When the curtain closed last year, the S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.05%) had risen 16%, marking its third consecutive year of

Shares of the technology giant have dipped after a massive spending push related to artificial intelligence. Investors know Amazon (AMZN 0.41%) as one of the best-performing stocks of the 21st century. However, the trillion-dollar technology giant has actually severely underperformed the stock market indexes in recent years. Amazon stock is up just 22% cumulatively in

Here’s exactly how to protect your portfolio against market volatility. Stock prices have been stumbling in recent weeks, and investors have mixed feelings about the future of the market. While 38.5% of investors feel optimistic about the next six months, according to the most recent weekly survey from the American Association of Individual Investors, 38.1% worry

Given the importance of the AI buildout, Broadcom’s semiconductor chips make the stock a top pick under any economic conditions. Stock market crashes rattle most investors, as they are the ultimate tests of patience and willpower. Some people abandon high-quality companies if they drop by 10%, only to regret that decision when those same corporations

These stocks have a lot of upside — and much less downside risk than the crypto market. The problem (or the opportunity, depending on your point of view) with cryptocurrencies is their massive volatility. Because most cryptocurrencies lack a fundamental valuation floor or metrics like stocks — price-to-earnings ratio or cash flow, for instance —

Palantir stock has been on a huge run the past few years. Growth stocks helped lead the market higher for much of the past two decades. One of the hottest growth stocks of the past few years has been Palantir Technologies (PLTR +1.77%). The stock more than doubled for three straight years from 2023 through

These two stocks have historically zigged when the market has zagged. A survey last fall by Natixis Investment Managers found that 74% of institutional money managers expect a market correction in 2026. They cited various reasons, from the tech bubble bursting to geopolitics and macroeconomic factors. Currently, the Nasdaq Composite is hovering around even year

Make better investment decisions with Simply Wall St’s easy, visual tools that give you a competitive edge. IBM (NYSE:IBM) is tripling entry level hiring in the US, with a focus on AI fluency and durable skills. The company is redesigning entry level roles to emphasize customer engagement and work that is less exposed to automation

Don’t expect the same share price returns of the past three years, but more good times could still be ahead for Nvidia. The past three years have been phenomenal for Nvidia (NVDA 2.21%) shareholders. The company’s stock gained 791% as tech giants invested hundreds of billions of dollars in building data centers for artificial intelligence

Most investors aren’t fans of the plan, but they’d dislike the outcome of the alternative even more. Given the stock’s sizable price drop immediately following the announcement, it’s clear that most investors aren’t big fans of Amazon‘s (AMZN 0.41%) 2026 spending plans. The e-commerce giant said it plans to earmark $200 billion for capital expenditures,

Don’t count the tech giant out yet. After performing well for the first six months or so of 2025, shares of Microsoft (MSFT 0.13%) started moving in the wrong direction in the second half of the year. And the company has shown no signs of a rebound so far in 2026. Microsoft’s shares are down by

Market crashes happen, but when they do they should be seen as an opportunity to buy some great stocks at a discount. In the immortal words of Warren Buffett: “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.” Put more succinctly, buy the dip. Over the long term, the American stock market

The sell-off in Oracle and Netflix is making aspirations to join the $1 trillion club increasingly distant. In August, I predicted that Netflix (NFLX +1.28%) and Oracle (ORCL +2.38%) would reach at least $1 trillion in market capitalization by 2030. But Netflix is down 38.6% from its 52-week high at the time of this writing,

History says the stock market is likely to decline (perhaps sharply) in the years ahead. The S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.05%) has advanced nearly 80% over the last three years, but the stock market and bond market recently flashed warnings not seen since the dot-com era. Those warnings suggest that investors are caught in a high-risk,

When things seem too perfect on Wall Street, they often are. From a statistical standpoint, the stock market has thrived with Donald Trump in the Oval Office. During his first term (Jan. 20, 2017 – Jan. 20, 2021), the widely followed Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI +0.10%), broad-based S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.05%), and innovation-inspired Nasdaq

Nvidia and Micron Technology are real bargains right now. The market is trading near its all-time highs, but there are still some very inexpensive stocks out there for consideration by long-term investors. Here are two that investors can dip their toes into with a $1,000 investment. Nvidia Nvidia (NVDA 2.21%) has gone from a stock

Sandisk’s red-hot stock market rally seems here to stay thanks to the favorable dynamics of the flash storage market. Sandisk (SNDK 0.72%) has set the stock market on fire in 2026, rising an incredible 166% as of this writing, thanks to red-hot demand for the company’s flash memory storage solutions used in a variety of

Healthcare industry stocks are traditionally good hedges against technology and other growth stocks, because they tend to perform well when the larger stock markets do not. But it depends on which industry. In the pharmaceutical or biotech industries, for example, some stocks tend to behave more like growth stocks. A nice feature of investing in

Image source: Getty Images It would be easy to think a stock market crash looks a million miles away. Only two days ago (11 February), the FTSE 100 broke past the 10,450 mark to set another all-time high. The S&P 500 climbed to within a hair of its own record high around the 7,000 mark.