• Hedge fund warns stocks could drop 50 percent from February highs

    Hedge fund warns stocks could drop 50 percent from February highs

    Paul Singer’s Elliott Management said global stocks could tumble further, ultimately losing half or more of their value from February’s high, as the world braces for the deepest recession since the 1930s-era Great Depression. The New York-based hedge fund firm, in a letter to clients on Wednesday seen by Reuters, wrote that the sharp market …
  • Stocks rise despite another surge in unemployment claims

    Stocks rise despite another surge in unemployment claims

    US stocks ticked up Thursday as Wall Street tried to brush off another surge in unemployment filings amid the coronavirus crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed as much as 62.01 points, or 0.2 percent, at the open despite the US Department of Labor reporting another 5.2 million initial jobless claims last week. The staggering …
  • Sen. Tillis Says Fellow North Carolina Republican Burr ‘Owes Everybody an Explanation’ on Self-Dealing, Insider Trading Allegations

    Sen. Tillis Says Fellow North Carolina Republican Burr ‘Owes Everybody an Explanation’ on Self-Dealing, Insider Trading Allegations

    Sen. Thom Tillis (R., N.C.) during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., December 11, 2019 Senator Thom Tillis (R., N.C.) on Wednesday said fellow North Carolina Republican senator Richard Burr should respond to recent allegations of insider trading and self-dealing. “I suspect that there is an investigation in the DOJ, and we’ll have …
  • Bad news on the economy all we’re likely to see — for now

    Bad news on the economy all we’re likely to see — for now

    On Tuesday the stock market rallied nicely because people — at least market commentators — perceived that there was good news about the virus. And they ignored the bad news — lots of it, and not just perceived bad news — about how hard coronavirus had hit the US and world economies. On Wednesday the …
  • Stocks plunge as coronavirus toll weighs on Wall Street

    Stocks plunge as coronavirus toll weighs on Wall Street

    Stocks plunged Wednesday as fresh concerns about the coronavirus’s economic toll dampened optimism on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled as much as 716.44 points, or nearly 3 percent, giving back the prior day’s 2.7 percent jump on hopes that virus-battered economies could reopen before too long. The S&P 500 also slid as …
  • Stocks jump as investors find more optimism about path of coronavirus crisis

    Stocks jump as investors find more optimism about path of coronavirus crisis

    US stocks climbed Tuesday as Wall Street once again grew optimistic about the path of coronavirus crisis while grappling with grim earnings reports from major companies. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped as many as 628.28 points, or 2.6 percent, in early trading following a 1.4 percent drop Monday. The S&P 500 posted an early …
  • Stocks slide as Wall Street braces for more coronavirus pain

    Stocks slide as Wall Street braces for more coronavirus pain

    US stocks slid Monday as Wall Street braced for a slew of ugly corporate earnings reports this week as the coronavirus continues to wreck the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped as many as 311.30 points, or 1.3 percent, in early trading ahead of the start of corporate America’s first-quarter earnings season, when big …
  • Bill Ackman bets on quick economic recovery after coronavirus pandemic

    Bill Ackman bets on quick economic recovery after coronavirus pandemic

    Mega investor Bill Ackman, who hit headlines around the world when he made a whopping $2.6 billion in March betting the stock market would tank due to the coronavirus, is betting that the economy will recover quickly once the crisis ends. Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management reinvested his windfall this week — betting on Hilton, …
  • NYSE opened its coronavirus-shut doors to facilitate IPO

    NYSE opened its coronavirus-shut doors to facilitate IPO

    The New York Stock Exchange quietly used its trading floor to take a company public late last month — days after it had shuttered the famous pit because of a coronavirus outbreak, The Post has learned. The Big Board took a group of people onto the trading floor of its historic building at 11 Wall …
  • Stocks jump again after Fed announces $2.3 trillion coronavirus loan program

    Stocks jump again after Fed announces $2.3 trillion coronavirus loan program

    US stocks jumped again Thursday after the Federal Reserve announced its latest effort to shore up the nation’s coronavirus-battered economy. The Dow Jones industrial average rose as much as 561.45 points, or about 2.4 percent, in early trading following the central bank’s announcement of a $2.3 trillion loan program to help households, employers and local …