Software stocks have tumbled over the last few weeks, but they’re not all buys. Software stocks are beginning to crawl out of a deep hole, following a brutal sell-off over the last two weeks. The panic picked up following less-than-perfect earnings reports from sector leaders like Microsoft and ServiceNow and as fears of agentic AI

S&P 500 futures were up marginally this morning after the index closed down 0.33% yesterday. The index is up 1.41% year to date, which isn’t bad given that we’re only 42 days into the new year … unless you compare that to foreign stocks.  Global stocks are up nearly 9% year to date, as tracked

Image source: Getty Images Is the stock market going to crash? It might seem a strange question to ask, given the S&P 500 and FTSE 100 are both still riding high. However, all’s not well under the surface, with the software component of the S&P 500 down by around 30% since October. This has been

New York  —  A brief rally in US stocks paused Wednesday morning after new data showed the economy added 130,000 jobs in January, exceeding economists’ expectations. Stocks were mixed after opening higher. The Dow was down 219 points, or 0.44%. The S&P 500 rose 0.05%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was down 0.1%. The US economy

(Bloomberg) — On Wall Street, rising fears about artificial intelligence keep pummeling shares of companies at risk of being caught on the wrong side of it all, from small software makers to big wealth-management firms. Most Read from Bloomberg The latest selloff came on Wednesday with European wealth management firms St James’s Place Plc and

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a vice-president at Dimensional Fund Advisors and co-host of the “Informed Investor” podcast The rationale for investing in the stocks of small companies is well established through empirical record, academic literature and

Imported beer, including Heineken, for sale at a store in New York City on April 10, 2025.  Timothy A. Clary | Afp | Getty Images European equities edged lower on Wednesday, as regional investors assessed another flurry of corporate earnings. By 9:10 a.m. in London (4:10 a.m. ET), the pan-European Stoxx 600 was around 0.2%

And it could have plenty more upside ahead. Despite some volatility, SoFi Technologies (SOFI 0.84%), a fintech specialist, has performed well over the past three years, with its shares jumping more than 76% during that period. SoFi still has plenty of upside left, given its outstanding financial results and attractive long-term opportunities. Here’s why the

The tech stock has been falling, despite posting another strong quarter. Palantir Technologies (PLTR 2.38%) stock is struggling in 2026. Although the business itself remains in great shape, investors aren’t buying it up as rapidly as they were last year. As of Monday’s close, the data analytics stock has fallen by 20%. While the stock

Before Nvidia, there was Cisco Systems. On Feb. 16, 1990, Cisco Systems (CSCO 0.56%) went public at $18 per share. The then-$224 million company, whose software enabled computer networks to link up over greater distances, was created by two computer support staffers at Stanford University who had been tasked with helping to expand the computer

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

Should you buy Amazon stock on the dip? Absolutely. Earnings seasons can sometimes be rough. We’re seeing it this time around with several AI stocks. Advanced Micro Devices‘ (AMD +3.70%) and Microsoft‘s (MSFT +3.24%) shares plunged after its recent quarterly update. Google parent Alphabet‘s (GOOG +0.40%) (GOOGL +0.45%) stock declined moderately despite reporting impressive results.

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