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• August is typically a rough month for stocks and could be again

  9:31 AM ET Thu, 1 Aug 2019

  Uncertainty looms after the Fed's rate cut, but traders haven't lost optimism.

• Halfway through earnings season, it looks like we are going to dodge the feared profit recession

  3:17 PM ET Tue, 30 July 2019

  Half way through the earnings season, we've seen few surprises, but the market seems increasingly dependent on interest rate cuts.

• Companies weigh impact of China and trade, and it's not all bad

  2:11 PM ET Thu, 25 July 2019

  Companies report varying impacts from China amid trade squabbles.

• Companies have been buying back massive amounts of stock this year

  9:22 AM ET Thu, 18 July 2019

  As buybacks hit records last year (about $800 billion), a predictable political backlash developed.

• The news on semiconductors is bad, and it will likely get worse

  9:08 AM ET Thu, 18 July 2019

  First the global slowdown clobbered them at the end of last year, then the China trade war intensifying clobbered them again in May, then the Huawei ban, then Japan's export restrictions against South Korea.

• With no trade deal near, company forecasts this earnings season are likely to be cloudy

  7:16 AM ET Fri, 12 July 2019

  Citigroup kicks off earnings season on Monday.

• Looking at the winners and losers on the trip to 3,000 by the S&P 500

  4:41 PM ET Wed, 10 July 2019

  The S&P 500 tops 3,000. What a difference five years makes.

• Virgin Galactic deal sparks interest in an obscure investment vehicle with a spotty track record

  4:51 PM ET Tue, 9 July 2019

  There's lots of excitement that tech superstar Chamath Palihapitiya's Social Capital Hedosophia is buying a 49% stake (roughly $800 million) in Virgin Galactic to do space flights.

• IPOs have their best quarter in years in terms of performance and capital raised

  3:31 PM ET Tue, 16 July 2019

  The first half of 2019 was a big surprise to many IPO investors.

• Earnings this year may end up flat, and that's a problem for investors lifting market to a record

  11:11 AM ET Thu, 27 June 2019

  Earnings estimates are essentially "flattish" for 2019 from 2018. This puts stock investors in a difficult position.

• These five stocks have gotten so big, they are essentially becoming the market

  2:04 PM ET Wed, 26 June 2019

  When these companies do well, the markets do, too.

• Slack going public in a red-hot IPO market, with a twist

  3:33 PM ET Tue, 16 July 2019

  Workplace messaging firm Slack is about to go public in a red-hot IPO market, but it's approach to going public--using a "direct listing"--is slightly different than an IPO.

• IPOs are one of the hottest trades of the year, doubling the market's return

  9:44 AM ET Thu, 13 June 2019

  IPO watchers were fearful an avalanche of IPOs would cause a crash in the market, but the big tech unicorns have been winners so far.

• America's retirement accounts are growing, but not fast enough

  10:07 AM ET Wed, 12 June 2019

  The average account value for an investor age 65 and older was $192,877.

• A breakdown of whether investors are safer after the SEC passes financial protection rule

  4:44 PM ET Thu, 6 June 2019

  The SEC has voted to approve a financial investment reform package.

• The stock market fears more trade retaliation from China is coming next week

  3:49 PM ET Fri, 17 May 2019

  Traders are concerned there is another shoe to drop: more retaliatory measures from China, which may or may not come in the form of tariffs.