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The IPO market is on track for its best year since 2021, according to Renaissance Capital.
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Mickey Kim: Even in hot markets, investors can be their own worst enemies
Time and time again, investors pour money into equities after strong rallies and bail during downturns.
As stock market booms, Americans have more at stake than ever
Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis showed that households and nonprofits were investing about 45.4% of their assets in corporate equities as of the second quarter of 2025—the highest exposure to stocks ever.
Wall Street’s record-setting run keeps motoring on expectations for easier interest rates
The S&P 500 rose 0.8% on Thursday and was on track to set an all-time high for a third straight day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq composite were also heading toward records.
Tech stocks are doing so well investors are starting to worry
Investors are betting on optimism regarding artificial intelligence and Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts to keep technology stocks moving higher.
Buy-now-pay-later company Klarna goes public in largest IPO of 2025
Klarna sold 34.3 million shares to investors at $40 a share late Tuesday. That’s above the forecasted range of $35 to $37 a share and values the company at more than $15 billion.
Left and right join forces over bill to ban lawmakers from trading stock
Lawmakers who agree on little else gathered to promote a ban that polls well with voters and appears to be finding new momentum after stalling out in previous sessions of Congress.
Elanco CEO says new products helping to turn the corner on growth
Elanco Animal Health last week released what CEO Jeff Simmons called its best quarterly earnings since its 2018 spinoff from Eli Lilly and Co.
Most US stocks fall after a disappointing inflation update, but Big Tech keeps Wall Street steady
Seven out of every 10 stocks within the S&P 500 fell, though the index edged up by less than 0.1% to set another all-time high.
Bitcoin soars to new all-time high as lawmakers focus on pro-crypto legislation
The world’s oldest and most popular cryptocurrency is currently the fifth most valuable asset class in the world, at $2.4 trillion, giving it a higher market cap than Amazon.
Chipmaker Nvidia becomes most valuable company in world at $4T
The poster child of the AI boom, Nvidia has surpassed Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Google parent Alphabet in market value.
Stocks set new record to wrap up first half; here’s what drove markets
The U.S. stock market ended the first half of 2025 with back-to-back record highs, defying a rollicking few months of trade tensions and economic uncertainty that sent it deep into negative terrain in April.
Stocks rise to brink of a record, recover nearly all their 20% springtime drop
Wall Street’s worries about Trump’s tariffs have receded since the president stunned the world in April with stiff proposed levies, but they have not disappeared.
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.
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.