Financial advisers counsel calm amid market ups and downs
It might be tempting to make dramatic changes to your investments right now, but it’s important to resist that impulse, advisers say.
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UPDATE: Lilly reports robust Q4, full-year earnings
Lilly’s fourth-quarter earnings, released before the market opened Thursday, surpassed analysts’ expectations by millions.
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IBJ Podcast: Josef Newgarden, Indy 500 champ and avid investor, also races against S&P 500
Newgarden enjoys being a hands-on caretaker of his financial life, including managing his investment portfolio. He says if he weren’t a racer, “I think I’d be an equity trader or some kind of strategist.”
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Lilly stock skyrockets, raising profile of city’s life sciences sector
The pharmaceutical company has launched 20 drugs in the past decade to treat diseases from arthritis and psoriasis to diabetes and cancer. In recent months, Lilly has overtaken every competitor to become the most valuable drugmaker in the world.
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Emmis Corp. to make another attempt to go private
Emmis Corp. CEO Jeff Smulyan says he believes his fourth pitch to take the Indianapolis-based media company private will be successful.
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While tariffs roil Wall Street, individual investors stay in stocks
The tariff-induced extremes that have gripped Wall Street have been mirrored by a surprising fortitude among everyday people invested in the stock market, financial advisers and analysts say.
Wall Street, dollar tumbling again as investors retreat further
Hanging over the market are worries about President Trump’s anger at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates to help give the economy more juice.
Tariffs create uncertainty for merger and acquisition activity
The impact of the tariffs also has extended to merger and acquisition activity, with M&A attorneys trying to keep pace with Trump’s starts, stops and pauses.
Wall Street’s euphoria sends stocks to historic gains after Trump pauses most of his tariffs
Wednesday’s gains were widespread across the market, with 98% of the stocks in the S&P 500 index rallying. The rally pulled the index away from the edge of a bear market.
Stocks rise worldwide as hopes for tariff negotiations deliver some relief
Hope still remains on Wall Street that negotiations may be possible. The country’s top trade negotiator, Jamieson Greer, said roughly 50 countries have already been in contact about new tariff deals.
Wall Street heavyweights take a drubbing, from airlines to Big Tech
Few sectors were spared in trading Friday, a day after U.S. companies lost $2 trillion in value.
Carmel-based health tech firm to delist from Nasdaq
Syra Health Corp. plans to offer stock on the over-the-counter market after the company failed to meet Nasdaq Stock Market’s price requirements for its shares.
Wall Street tumbles on worries about slower economy and higher inflation
The S&P 500 is down more than 5% this year and is on track for its first losing quarter since September 2023.
A 10% drop for stocks is scary, but isn’t that rare
The U.S. stock market has just dropped 10% from its high set last month. Wall Street has a name for such a decline: a “correction.”
Stocks’ sell-off worsens as Wall Street wonders how much pain Trump will accept for the economy
It was the worst day yet in a scary stretch where the S&P 500 has swung more than 1%, up or down, seven times in eight days.
Stock sell-off worsens as Wall Street wonders how much pain Trump will accept for economy
The worry is that the whipsaw moves will either hurt the economy directly or create enough uncertainty to drive U.S. companies and consumers into an economy-freezing paralysis.
Kite Realty sees quarterly rise in revenue, profit
The Indianapolis-based retail real estate investment trust reported fourth-quarter funds from operations that met analyst expectations.
What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company upending technology stocks?
DeepSeek’s AI assistant became the No. 1 downloaded free app on Apple’s iPhone store Monday, propelled by curiosity about the ChatGPT competitor.
Wholesale inflation rises on higher energy costs
The overall increases were slightly less than economists had forecast. U.S. markets leapt higher immediately on the new inflation data.
Stocks surged in 2024 even as Americans fretted over the economy
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite index rose to record highs, as investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence fueled a massive bull run, and investors cheered the Fed’s shift to lower interest rates.
Wall Street indexes lose ground on final day of huge year
U.S. markets’ stellar run this year has been driven by a growing economy, solid consumer spending and a strong jobs market.
How the stock market defied expectations again this year, by the numbers
U.S. stocks soared higher and carried the S&P 500 to records as the economy kept growing and the Federal Reserve began cutting interest rates. Here’s a look at some of the numbers that defined the year.
Lilly stock caught up in wave of uncertainty
After a stunning 703% run-up in price over the past five years, shares of Eli Lilly and Co. have been on a roller-coaster ride since September.
U.S. stocks fall sharply after Fed hints at just two rate cuts for 2025
The S&P 500 tumbled 2.9%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 2.6%, and the Nasdaq composite dropped 3.6%.