Stock Market News on S&P 500 Rally in June and Into July, 2023

Stock Market News on S&P 500 Rally in June and Into July, 2023

As the trillion-dollar AI rally gathers pace, pity the humans on Wall Street trying to figure out this gravity-defying market. With the S&P 500 Index staging an improbable 16% advance this year, being both bearish and wrong is making life awkward for the people paid to predict where equities will go next. After being blindsided … Read more

Stock Market Rally That Shocked Everyone Is Finally Broadening Beyond Tech

Stock Market Rally That Shocked Everyone Is Finally Broadening Beyond Tech

The big knock on the 2023 stock rally is that it rests on half-a-dozen companies thriving on hype. That criticism just took a hit. Beneath another rousing advance this week were signs of an increasingly equitable division of rewards, including the best week for small-caps since March and a trouncing of the S&P 500 by … Read more

Short Bets on US Stocks Hit $1 Trillion, Most Since April 2022

Short Bets on US Stocks Hit $1 Trillion, Most Since April 2022

Short sellers are ramping up bets against US stocks even as paper losses on the positions surpass $100 billion. Total US short interest, or the amount traders have spent betting against US equities, exceeded $1 trillion this month as the S&P 500 Index extended its advance, S3 Partners LLC data show. The tally reached the … Read more