stock market

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Some traders bet over $2m on the stock market increasing that day, even though it had gone through seven days in a row of losses.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

The gold-platinum ratio suggests the stock market is living on borrowed time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

That causes the stock market to fall as the ratio is rising, but to have higher returns in subsequent months.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

In other words, the fund aims to more or less match the sector-by-sector makeup of the U.S. stock market, but within those sectors skews toward stocks that look cheap relative to their industry peers.

From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026

“No electrical power, no clean water, no telecommunications. Food, gas, and retail shortages. The stock market will crash. No one will have jobs. There will be riots.”

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly