Wall Street tumbles in volatile action amid global rout
Wall Street dropped on Monday in tumultuous action as traders aggressively sold stocks and bid-up only the safest asset classes.
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NYSE will suspend stock trading if S&P 500 plunges 7%
If losses in the U.S. stock market worsen, keep in mind there might be a 15-minute break. The New York Stock Exchange said it will halt trading for 15 minutes if the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index drops 7 …
It's now a bull with claws, as traders await a washout
There are a few things to consider as red fills quote screens this morning.
FTSE set for worst day since 2011
The FTSE 100 slumped to its lowest level in almost three years on Monday, with all individual stocks in the red and miners leading the slide on growing fears of a China-led global economic slowdown. Alarm bells rang across world markets after a 9 percent dive in Chinese shares and a sharp drop in the dollar and major commodities panicked investors. “There is a snowball effect happening, with margin calls
Why stocks are tumbling 6 years into the bull market
Well, that was fun while it lasted. For years, investors in U.S. stocks shrugged off threats — a government shutdown, fear of a euro collapse, a near U.S. debt default — and just kept on buying. At the …
NYSE invokes Rule 48 for market open in anticipation of volatility
The New York Stock Exchange invoked Rule 48 on Monday in an effort to speed up and smooth trading at the market open, as exceptionally high volatility is expected. Futures snapshot at 8:59 a.m. EDT: * …
Apple plunges 5% to break below $100 a share
Shares of tech giant Apple broke below $100 a share in premarket trading on Monday as a global sell-off in equities continued.
China fears wipe quarter of a trillion euros off Europe's blue-chips
European stocks slumped on Monday after a rout in Chinese markets, wiping hundreds of billions of euros off leading shares and sending one benchmark index to a seven-month low. The pan-European FTSEurofirst …
China's stock market suffers biggest one-day fall since 2007
China’s stock market fell Monday by its biggest margin in eight years, defying the government’s multibillion-dollar effort to stop a slide that has wiped out the gains of this year’s price boom. The decline …
Botched Star Tobias Strebel Reported Missing
Botched star Tobias Strebel, better known as the Justin Bieber look-alike, has been reported missing, E! News confirms. The Los Angeles Police Department tells E! News that Strebel, who…