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Image source: Getty Images 2021 was an overall stellar year for the stock market. The S&P/TSX Composite Index posted considerable gains through most of the year, but the arrival of another COVID-19 variant threw things into flux towards the last few weeks. The start of December brought the Omicron variant, and investors scrambled to safety…

This has been one of the most all-around difficult years for investors in quite some time. The broad-based S&P 500 produced its worst first-half return in more than a half century, while the bond market has delivered its worst year on record. But this still isn't as disappointing as the trailing one-year returns for the growth-centric…

Comment on this storyCommentFor years, it was hard to go wrong buying what I call the Select Seven big-time growth stocks. Even when some of the seven were having a less-than-stellar year, their collective return helped boost the S&P 500 index to record heights.But things aren’t working out like that this year. In fact, the seven have been…

The stock market was tumbling—again—Tuesday, with the S&P 500 back in correction territory following a massive turnaround Monday. All eyes were on the Federal Reserve as its two-day monetary policy meeting begins.In afternoon trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 395 points, or 1.2%, one day after the…

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After falling for a fourth day in a row on Friday, the stock market suffered its worst week in nearly two years, and so far in January the S&P 500 is off to its worst start since 2016. Technology stocks have been hit especially hard, with the Nasdaq Composite Index dropping more than 10 percent from its most recent high, which qualifies as a…

Chinese stocks such as Pinduoduo (NASDAQ:PDD), DiDi (NYSE:DIDI) and JD.com (NASDAQ:JD) are rising today after China’s central bank cut interest rates. Source: ESB Professional / Shutterstock.com Chinese stocks listed in Hong Kong popped today. This follows a series of rate cuts by China’s central bank that sparked a rally in a wide…

The industrial health care equipment industry is fragmented, which means there are plenty of opportunities for investors. This segment includes medical device manufacturers, diagnostic services providers and distributors. The industry generates more than $120 billion in annual revenue and is growing at a double-digit rate. Here are some…

The S&P 500 is down 14% year to date as of this writing. As it stands, this is the worst year for the stock market since 2008. And it's the third-worst year for stocks since 1974. With depressing results like these, you might think the market is comprised entirely of losers, but you'd be wrong. Shares of beverage company Celsius Holdings…

What happened Lucid Group (LCID) stock dropped this morning and was trading down 5.4% as of 1 p.m. ET. Blame Elon Musk, at least partly, for the electric vehicle (EV) stock's fall today. So what Lucid stock has dropped rapidly since November, and much of its fall has to do with the company's falling reservations. In its third quarter, although…