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Market Snapshot: Dow rises and Nasdaq carves out fresh intraday record as Apple, financials power Tuesday gains

[unable to retrieve full-text content] U.S. stock indexes headed higher late-morning Tuesday, with the Nasdaq Composite up for an eighth straight session, helped by improving economic data, after an overnight scare over trade relations with China. MarketWatch.com – Top Stories

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Market Extra: The decline of the U.S. dollar could happen at ‘warp speed’ in the era of coronavirus, warns prominent economist Stephen Roach

Stephen Roach, a Yale University senior fellow and former Morgan Stanley Asia chairman, tells MarketWatch that his forecast for a sharp deterioration of the U.S. dollar could be a very near-term phenomenon, not an event that looms off in the distance. “I do think it’s something that happens sooner rather …

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Key Words: The risk-reward in the stock market isn’t looking good, warns fund manager overseeing $16 billion in assets

“ ‘The stock market has already discounted a significant degree of the economic recovery. So, incrementally improving data here might not do much to lift prices. The risk-reward isn’t great here.’ ” That’s Bryn Mawr Trust’s Jeffrey Mills, who oversees $ 16 billion in assets, talking to CNBC Friday about …

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Market Extra: Will quadruple witching mark the start of a rocky stretch for U.S. stocks? It may already have

Quadruple witching, a pandemic, a recession, and a stock market that is looking for reasons to add to an epic recovery from the impact of the coronavirus. Could those factors make for a volatile cocktail for the stock market in coming days and weeks? Quadruple witching, occurs on the third …

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Market Snapshot: Dow ends 170 points lower, snaps 3 days of gains, as coronavirus concerns drag indexes lower

U.S. stocks slumped in the final hour of trade Wednesday to end three days of gains, as investors monitored signs of a revival of the coronavirus pandemic in some U.S. states and China, while still hoping for a quick economic recovery as business activity resumes. Investors also parsed the second …

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Market Extra: It’s like the Wild West with the ‘get-rich-crowd’ vs Wall St. pros, but it’s too easy to blame retail investors for ‘rampant speculation’

Tales of out-of-work 20 and 30-somethings using coronavirus-stimulus checks to scoop up stocks on Wall Street with reckless abandon are emerging fast and furiously, but the reasons behind the recent fervor for investing is, perhaps, far simpler. MarketWatch has written a bit about the rise of retail investors of late, …

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Volatile market pushes mortgage interest rates even lower

Stop us if you’ve heard this before: Mortgage interest rates just dropped to historically low levels. That has become the trend recently as market moves, and actions by the Federal Reserve, continue to not only keep rates steady and low, but push them even lower. Mortgage News Daily reported this …

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Market Extra: Here’s how the stock market tends to trade after brutal selloffs like Thursday’s

U.S. stocks on Thursday booked their worst daily plunge since fears about the economic impact of measures to curtail the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic took root in investors’ psyches back in March. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.42% tumbled roughly 1,862 points and the S&P 500 SPX, +0.22% …

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World Market Summer Finds

One of my favorite stores for outdoor decor & furniture is World Market. I’ve been working on completing our outdoor space and when I was doing my shopping I found so many great things at World Market I knew I needed to share. As a huge bonus, World Market has …

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