By MarketWatch.com | Tomi Kilgore | 7/17/2025 7:53 AM
GE Aerospace’s stock rises toward a 25-year high after earnings beat expectations on multiple fronts and the full-year outlook saw a big increase. ... Read full Story
Former institutional trader Kevin Muir flags caution on chasing this market as he sees some big market whales nearing the end of a U.S. stock buying spree. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Tomi Kilgore | 7/17/2025 7:38 AM
PepsiCo’s stock heads toward a three-month high after earnings beat expectations in contrast to a profit miss in the previous quarter. ... Read full Story
China’s central bank has been buying physical gold to add to its reserves for at least the last three years – and there’s growing speculation that the country may be purchasing even more of the metal in secret as part of a strategy to reduce its reliance on the U.S. dollar. ... Read full Story
it’s been nearly three months since gold climbed past $3,500 an ounce to its highest price on record, but five key factors to emerge since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term are likely to support prices in the months ahead. ... Read full Story
Scott Rubner, a former Goldman Sachs tactical strategist now at Citadel Securities, said it’s too soon to fade the stock market given factors including corporate stock buybacks — but it’s getting late. ... Read full Story
The chip designer looks to be evolving into making its own custom AI chips — and BNP analysts say the opportunity isn’t fully priced into its stock yet. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Greg Robb | 7/16/2025 7:11 PM
Higher tariffs put in place by the Trump White House this year have started to increase inflation, and these effects are likely to increase in the coming months, New York Fed President John Williams said Wednesday. ... Read full Story
Until very recently, shares of Opendoor Technologies Inc. had largely been left for dead. But over the past week, retail traders swapping stock tips on social media have helped bring them back to life. ... Read full Story
With his two dozen letters to U.S. trading partners last week, President Donald Trump promised elevated tariffs on Aug. 1 largely to tackle an issue he’s raised for decades — trade deficits. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Tomi Kilgore | 7/16/2025 4:09 PM
Shares of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley fell Wednesday despite stronger-than-expected profit from the two big banks, as investors saw little reason to bid up equity prices further after gains in recent weeks. ... Read full Story
Reports that President Trump was planning to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sent stocks and the U.S. dollar tumbling on Wednesday, while long-dated Treasury yields charged higher. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Tomi Kilgore | 7/16/2025 2:11 PM
BlackRock’s stock was bouncing Wednesday as Wall Street brushed off any concerns over a large redemption by a client in Asia, and as CEO Larry Fink said business in Asia was “stronger than we ever imagined.” ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Venessa Wong | 7/16/2025 1:14 PM
Parents can help teens set themselves up within a brief period to have $4 million saved by the time they’re in their 60s, all without getting a bachelor’s degree, a social-media content creator claims. ... Read full Story
"The film was billed to me as an attempt to capture the real power and bumbling hubris of a bunch of arrogant and wealthy men ... who try to rewire the world and find themselves in way over their heads." — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
Did you know?
English picked up both the concept of hubris and the term for that particular brand of cockiness from the ancient Greeks, who considered hubris a dangerous character flaw capable of provoking the wrath of the gods. In classical Greek tragedy, hubris was often a fatal shortcoming that brought about the fall of the tragic hero. Typically, overconfidence led the hero to attempt to overstep the boundaries of human limitations and assume a godlike status; in response, the gods inevitably humbled the offender with a sharp reminder of human mortality. Take, for example, the story of Phaethon, a mortal son of the sun god Helios. In his hubris, Phaethon drives his father's sun chariot into the heavens but loses control of its horses. The chariot begins to scorch the earth, and Zeus strikes Phaethon down with a thunderbolt.