The stock market is having a great year overall, but the same can’t be said for the shares of many individual companies. The S&P 500, a benchmark index commonly used to measure the performance of the broad U.S. stock market, has hit record high after record high this year as companies posted record earnings and … Read more
If you’ve stepped foot inside an American supermarket in the past few years, there’s a good chance you’ve experienced sticker shock. But shareholders of the country’s largest grocery chains are singing a different tune. Food prices — along with energy prices — are historically volatile and therefore stripped out of the U.S. Bureau of Labor … Read more
The stock market continued its sell-off Monday, but the “crash” you may have heard about hasn’t actually happened. The Dow was down -2.74% in the first hour and a half of trading, and the S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite both fell more than -3%. This has compounded fears of a full-fledged stock market … Read more