Latest articles by David Dittman
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Stock Market Today: Tariff Talks Drive Another Up-and-Down Day
Trade war negotiations are happening, but the "fear gauge" is gyrating, and investors, traders and speculators are still searching for signs of a bottom.
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Stock Market Today: Trump Pushes Dow Into 2,600-Point Swing
Tariffs and trade war weigh on prices across global financial markets, with little light at the end of the tunnel.
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Stock Market Today: Stocks Are Mixed Before Liberation Day
Markets look forward to what comes with the reordering of 80-year-old global trade relationships.
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Stock Market Today: Stocks Are Mixed Before Liberation Day
Markets are getting into the freewheeling rhythm of a second Trump administration.
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How to Invest in Sports
If it's springtime, Forbes is out with its annual list of baseball franchise values. The billions involved might make you wonder how to invest in sports.
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Stock Market Today: Dow Rises 854 Points From Its Intraday Low
If there's one thing markets hate, it's uncertainty. But uncertainty is all they're getting these days.
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Stock Market Today: It's Going to Stay Choppy for Stocks
Auto-focus can show us a lot about uncertainty on the ground and in the stock market.
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Stock Market Today: Markets Celebrate Trump's Tariff Détente
Consumer discretionary stocks led 10 of the 11 S&P 500 sector groups well into the green.
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Stock Market Today: Stocks Enjoy a Fed Day Relief Rally
The question now is whether Jerome Powell and other policymakers can get the balance right given all the new noise.
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Stock Market Today: Stocks Skid Into Another Risk-Off Turn
The promise of the AI revolution can't overcome flickering hopes for a "Fed put."
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Stock Market Today: Dow Adds 353 Points Despite Soft Retail Sales
Investors and traders shake off another set of shaky economic numbers and send 10 of 11 sectors higher on Monday.
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Stock Market Today: Trump Drives Another Up-and-Down Day
Investors, traders and speculators as well as businesses and households continue to adjust to rapidly changing times.
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Should You Sell Tesla Stock as Elon Unrest Grows?
Tesla's CEO is wearing many hats and is managing them "with great difficulty."
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Stock Market Today: Dow Off 890 Points on Tariff Uncertainty
President Donald Trump still believes his ever-evolving plan for global trade will be "great for us," but "it takes a little time."
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Stock Market Today: Dow Drops 670 Points on Trade War Effect
A prodigious rally by the battered leader of the AI revolution typified an increasingly volatile picture for investors, traders and speculators.
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Stock Market Today: Markets Count Down to Tariff Day
Investors, traders and speculators stand by for updates from Washington, D.C., on new terms of global trade.
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Stock Market Today: Mixed Messages Muddle Markets
Stocks cruised into pre-market action on encouraging news for the AI revolution but stumbled on yet another policy disturbance.
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Stock Market Today: Inflation Is Still a Thing
Investors, traders and speculators confront an increasingly complex landscape featuring new and familiar challenges.
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How to Invest in the Nuclear Revolution
According to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, "The long-awaited American nuclear renaissance must launch during President Trump's administration."
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Stock Market Today: Growth Concerns Drag on Stocks
Forward-looking commentary from a major retailer outweighed its backward-looking results as all three major equity indexes retreated on Thursday.
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Stock Market Today: It's Mostly Onward and Upward for Equities
The major U.S. equity indexes were mixed Friday but closed an eventful week for earnings and data modestly higher.
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Stock Market Today: Stocks Pop on Time-Delayed Tariffs
All three major U.S. equity indexes rallied to intraday highs following President Trump's latest trade moves.
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Stock Market Today: Markets Reflect Elevated Uncertainty
Investors and traders as well as CEOs and central bankers continue to adjust to a new administration in Washington, D.C.
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Stock Market Today: Investors Respond to the Usual Uncertainty
Stocks surged late but the major indexes closed mixed as the search for market leadership continues.
