Tag: trading

January 25, 2021

Bitcoin’s price rose on Monday after a brutal sell-off that saw the virtual currency briefly dip below $30,000. Meanwhile, ether — the world’s second-biggest cryptocurrency — hit a fresh record high. Bitcoin rose more than 7.4% in the last 24 […]

January 22, 2021

Stock trading volumes are through the roof. It’s not just equity prices that are hitting new highs in 2021. Trading volumes for stocks and options are at records as well. “For trading volumes, the new year starts at a consistent, […]

January 21, 2021

Shares of Ford Motor hit a new 52-week high for a third consecutive day Thursday, putting the stock on pace for its best week since at least June. The stock is up about 20% this week, including an increase of […]

January 13, 2021

Stocks shook off a midday slide and ended with modest gains Tuesday, leaving the major indexes close to their recent all-time highs. Small-company stocks continued to outpace the rest of the market by a wide margin, a sign that investors […]

January 12, 2021

Urban Outfitters — Shares of the retailer slid more than 11% after Urban Outfitters said net sales for the two months ended Dec. 31 fell 8.4% year over year. The company also announced that CEO Trish Donnelly will depart at […]

January 11, 2021

The week is off to a bearish start for cryptocurrency as the price of Bitcoin fell nearly $10,000 from its Friday high of nearly $42,000, temporarily ending an unprecedented rally. On Monday morning, Bitcoin was trading under $33,000—a more than […]

January 4, 2021

The New York Stock Exchange plans to delist three state-owned Chinese telecommunications companies from U.S. stock exchanges by Jan. 11, following President Donald Trump’s November executive order prohibiting U.S. investment in companies that Washington says support the Chinese military. American […]

December 21, 2020

Wall Street analysts could not have predicted that a new strain of the coronavirus detected in the U.K. and South Africa would lead to the S&P 500 taking a dive in market trading on Monday, even as the U.S. government […]

December 15, 2020

The year 2020 has been tough for many companies, but it’s been a fantastic one for brokerages. Buoyed by a record number of new retail investors, firms like Robinhood and Fidelity have experienced record levels of trading. This trading surge, […]

December 14, 2020

The addition of Tesla into the S&P 500 at the close this Friday will be one of the biggest trading days in history, but it is only the most recent example of an ongoing trend: index managers who make the […]