Key Takeaways Tariffs revealed by President Donald Trump last week are scheduled to take effect Wednesday, with markets looking set to extend a wild run since the announcement. China announced a 34% retaliatory tariff on all goods imported from the U.S. expected to start on Thursday. The March Consumer Price Index is expected on Thursday, […]

Excluding the pandemic years, the U.S. economy is on track to do something last seen during the first quarter of 2009 — and it’s not good news. Before Feb. 19, the stock market was seemingly unstoppable. The widely tracked Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI -5.50%), broad-based S&P 500 (^GSPC -5.97%), and growth-dependent Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC

“The Japanese yen will be a good — and probably the best — candidate to hide from trade tensions and a U.S. recession, for a whole host of familiar reasons,” said Ebrahim Rahbari, head of rates strategy at Absolute Strategy Research. Zhang Xiaoyu | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Investors are flocking to safe

Key Takeaways Bitcoin dropped below the closely watched $80,000 level on Sunday evening, tracking U.S. stock index futures sharply lower amid intensifying worries about the impact of tariffs. The 50-day MA has crossed below the 200-day MA to form an ominous death cross, a chart pattern that warns of further selling. Investors should watch key

TOPSHOT – A monk walks past a collapsed building in Mandalay on April 1, 2025, a few days after the deadly Myanmar earthquake.  Sai Aung Mainsai Aung Main | Afp | Getty Images Myanmar’s ruling military junta is seizing the aftermath of a deadly earthquake as an opportunity to regain control amid a grueling civil

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and subsequent actions by other nations have cast a shadow over investors’ portfolios. Markets largely fell all around the world following the announcements, and the sell-off has extended into Monday.  Trump and his administration has been defiant, with the U.S. president saying “it won’t

U.S. stock futures plummeted on Sunday evening as the Trump administration showed no signs of backing off from a wide-ranging plan to impose tariffs. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average were recently down 3.2%, pointing to a decline of more than 1,200 points at Monday’s open, while futures linked to the S&P 500

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., April 4, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters When stock prices and stock futures fall rapidly in a single session, exchanges implement halts in trading to allow a moment for cooler heads to prevail and avoid market crashes we’ve seen

Key Takeaways The U.S. job market was surprisingly resilient in March. The economy added 228,000 jobs, defying expectations for a slowdown. The job market, usually a barometer of the health of the economy, is of less use than usual because of the seismic impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs announced in April. DOGE-related layoffs didn’t