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On Monday, the S&P opened up, then drifted lower and moved into negative territory less than 20 minutes later.
Investors underestimated the destabilizing effect of the Trump administration's trade policies, which J. P. Morgan says may have erased 10 percent off the S&P 500.
Stocks sank Thursday and then rallied back. But buying still seems tentative, even with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 1,500 points in two days.
A good part of 2019 earnings expectations could depend on a tariff deal between President Trump and China's President Xi Jinping.
The fact that all the FANG names were down 2 percent to 3 percent, and the industrial and energy sectors were down 1.5 percent each, points to a bigger problem.
It's true that gridlock often has been good for stocks, but it's not clear it will be this time around.
Stock and bond ETFs associated with active trading saw heavy volumes and some withdrawals during October's turbulent market conditions, while investors put money into exchange traded funds that are more associated with buy and hold strategies.
Companies are coming out of "blackout periods" around their earnings and can now increase their buyback activity.
Instead of 10 percent earnings growth, the market seems to be anticipating earnings growth of roughly half that.
Companies are beating expectations and raising estimates, but investors are selling stocks anyway
There's been talk about some tech companies like Palantir and Uber going public, but if this market volatility continues into next year, they may have to drop their prices dramatically or postpone their IPOs.
Earnings season is just getting started, but the early signs are looking even better than the bulls were anticipating.
A $350 billion ocean of unused stock buybacks planned by companies could be a significant support for the next leg up in the market.
The Nasdaq is having its worst month since January 2016. But while Wednesday's drop was large, for much of the tech sector, this was the culmination of a months-long sell-off.
Investor attention is focusing away from third- and fourth-quarter earnings (both of which will be outstanding) and toward 2019 projections.
As bond yields rose last week, tech stocks underperformed. But some stocks that act like bond proxies have done the opposite of what might be expected: They are rising.
A CNBC reporter since 1990, Bob Pisani covers Wall Street from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Two benchmark U.S. stock indexes are careening toward a historically bad December.
Shares of U.S. small-cap companies, rocked by recession fears and a global economic slowdown, have officially entered bear market territory.
DoubleLine Capital founder and CEO Jeffrey Gundlach spoke with CNBC's Scott Wapner in Los Angeles on Monday.
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