Markets and indexes

“It’s bad when this happens on a Friday, because then people get freaked out over the weekend.”

The money manager has been shorting a group of technology stocks, which he’s described as a “bubble basket.”

Booms and busts both have the potential to create unrealistic outlooks on both ends of the performance spectrum.

While the S&P 500 has risen or fallen by more than 2% six times this year, it swung by twice that amount nine times in October 2008.

S&P 500 enjoys its biggest one-day jump since August 2015.

It’s been a miserable week for higher-risk markets, as a trade war edged closer and the tech sector was roiled by Facebook’s scandal.

ETF Managers Group accused the exchange of favoring interests in a competing product.

The delay was partly prompted by BlackRock’s testimony that policymakers, not index compilers, should set corporate governance standards.

After the tech bubble and the 2008 financial crisis, the younger generation has little reason to trust the markets.

As the Dow tops 23,000, remember the largest percentage drop in history.