U.S. Stocks

Good News Is Bad for U.S. Stock Traders as Fed Obsession Returns
published May 17th 2016, 3:54 pm, by Dani Burger and Anna-Louise Jackson (Bloomberg) —Signs of a healing economy have been nothing to celebrate in the U.S. stock market. On a day when industrial production, housing starts and consumer inflation all exceeded forecasts, the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 181 points,

A Brutal Week in Markets. What Comes Next?: Mohamed A. El-Erian
©2015 Bloomberg View NTGB576KLVS6 (Bloomberg View) — Investors around the world will be looking to next week with some anxiety as they lick their wounds. A brutal week of losses was accentuated by an unpleasant close for the U.S. stock markets that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunge more than 500 points (3 percent)

U.S. Stock-Index Futures Decline After Steepest Slump Since 2011
©2015 Bloomberg News NTK9ZU6JTSE9 (Bloomberg) — Index futures signaled a deepening slump in the world’s biggest stock market after U.S. equities ended last week down the most in almost four years. Contracts on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index slid 0.5 percent to 1,961.50 as of 10:42 a.m. in Sydney