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Amid a debate about stock market investors underestimating the risks from the coronavirus-led shutdown of the global economy, China risk is reemerging. How the U.S. responds may determine the direction of the stock market. The U.S. has long contended that Chinese telecommunications-equipment maker Huawei Technologies is a risk to national …

If we’re being honest, the range of possible coronavirus-related economic outcomes is huge — all the way from “happy days are here again” to a new Dark Ages. I raise these possibilities by way of commenting on Warren Buffett’s subdued confidence at Berkshire Hathaway’s BRK.A, +1.73% BRK.B, +1.93% annual meeting …

U.S. stock-index futures on Wednesday were seeing lackluster early action in thin trade as investors braced for an update on private-sector employment from ADP for April and react to corporate quarterly updates from some of the nation’s largest companies, which are mostly swooning from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Disinfectants and hand sanitizers may be dandy for consumers sheltering at home from the coronavirus pandemic, but for some it appears liquor is quicker. From the week ending March 7 through the week ending April 18, when U.S. consumers were most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, total alcohol sales jumped …

U.S. stocks have soared, but low trading volume suggests many investors got shaken out in March and have been sulking on the sidelines. As the chart below shows, trading volume for the SPDR S&P 500 Trust SPY, -2.23%, which tracks the benchmark S&P 500 Index SPX, -2.28%, rose during the …

The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +2.99% ended a four-week stretch Friday with a total return approaching 30%, bouncing back from its worst first-quarter performance in history. As the worst pandemic in a century continues to take its toll on the global economy, investors, with no clear end in sight, …

The stock market, before Wednesday, rallied strongly as the coronavirus curve flattened. Imagine, now, the magnitude of the rally if the coronavirus were vanquished. President Donald Trump has said that, due to pent-up demand, the economy will eventually “pop back like nobody’s ever seen before.” Regardless of your political views, …

In the wake of coronavirus-related volatility in the stock market, investors are asking: “Is the economic data showing that there will be a depression?” The No. 1 mistake investors make as they try to figure out the answer is that they are mostly focused on one dimension of a two-dimensional …

“ ‘I don’t think we’re at the absolute bottom yet because the implications of this shutdown are incredible.’ ” — Mark Mobius Emerging-markets investing pioneer Mark Mobius made those remarks Tuesday in an interview with CNBC, putting him in the investing camp that expects an inevitable cascade of brutal economic …