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Byline: Adam Shell, Special to USA TODAY Unemployment is soaring. Corporate earnings are shrinking. And the recession is just getting underway. So why is the stock market -which was down [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, Special to USA TODAY The market's steep slide during the coronavirus crisis has exposed the pros and cons of buying individual stocks and purchasing index funds that [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, Special to USA TODAY When will the stock market stop going down--or, at least, flash signs of stabilization? If you're a rattled 401(k) investor nursing big paper [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, Special to USA TODAY Since Donald Trump's election victory in 2016, the two biggest storylines in the investment world have been tech stock supremacy on Wall Street [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAYThe Dow posted a small gain in a volatile first day of trading for 2019 as the battered bull market looks to rebound from its worst [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAYStocks closed out a bruising 2018 with gains on New Year's Eve but it wasn't enough to help the market avoid its biggest annual loss in [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAYFor stock investors, 2019 can't get here fast enough.One of the broadest measure of stocks, the Standard & Poor's 500 index, has been pounded in 2018 [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAYIf investors could ever use a late-December stock surge, this is the year. But the prospect of a so-called Santa Claus Rally is looking more and [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAYThe worst December for stocks since 1931 keeps getting worse.The Dow closed sharply lower again Thursday amid a negative reaction to the Federal Reserve's latest interest [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAYThe battered Dow closed higher but well off its best levels Tuesday, staging a rebound from a two-day drop of more than 1,000 points sparked by [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAYU.S. stocks suffered steep declines Thursday after the arrest of a top Chinese tech executive fanned trade worries and a swoon in oil prices worsened fears [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAYSo much for the all-clear sign on Wall Street.Just when it looked like the battered bull was healing, the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered a drop [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAYStocks kicked off the week with a rally, boosted by President Donald Trump's trade truce with China and a de-escalation of tensions that have been weighing [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY After weeks of carnage that marked the worst fourth-quarter start for stocks in 10 years, the market rebounded Monday, raising a key question: Is the [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY In a span of two phone calls, Daniel Milan found out last week just how nervous some of his Detroit-area investors were about the stock [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY If the big rally on Wall Street after the midterm elections is any guide, gridlock is good for stocks. U.S. equities jumped sharply higher Wednesday [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Can flipping a page on the calendar resurrect the fading Wall Street bull? History suggests yes. The calendar may not seem relevant to the performance [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY With the stock market as wobbly and erratic as it has been since early February, all this talk about a so-called price 'correction' can cause [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Just when it looked like the stock market would never stop going down, it reversed course and went up a lot. The bounce Thursday was [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY There's nothing more unnerving to stock investors than watching the market go down day after day. Headlines about 600-point drops in the Dow Jones industrial [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY October is living up to its reputation on Wall Street as a month known for wild swings. The broad U.S. stock market dropped for the [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY If you're in the hunt for the record $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot, you may have shelled out a fair amount of cash hoping to [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY The S&P 500 stock index on Thursday again briefly dipped below its average price over the past 200 days, a worrisome sign that suggests trouble [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Investors are buzzing over pot stocks. Recreational use of marijuana is now legal in Canada, a move Wall Street pros say is akin to the [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Has the Dow's wild, up-and-down swings got you rattled? Stay calm, keep the panic to a minimum and stick to your plan. That's the only [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Damage assessments from the recent market slump are rolling in, and stock losses are more gruesome and bigger than they appear on the surface. The [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Stock market downdrafts of 5 percent or more can cause an investor's blood pressure to spike and anxiety levels to rise. And Wall Street's most [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY In a span of six treacherous days on Wall Street, the mood of the stock market has turned from giddy optimism to gloomy pessimism. Pinpointing [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Is it time to rate-proof your investment portfolio? With a recent spike in borrowing costs causing swings in the market and angst on Wall Street, [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY No matter how you measure it, the U.S. stock market is pricey. The median U.S. stock, when measured by share price relative to earnings over [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY The good times on Wall Street, where stocks are trading near record highs as the longest bull run in history rolls on, aren't being enjoyed [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY A heads-up to anyone with a 401(k): With the stock market near record highs, the biggest threat to your hard-earned retirement savings could be you. [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Extreme weather events such as the approaching Category 4 Hurricane Florence are tracked just as closely by investors on Wall Street as they are by [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY The turning of the calendar to September might do what fears of a trade war and talk about the impeachment of President Donald Trump could [...]

Byline: Adam Shell USA TODAY The dilemma of what stocks to buy is particularly tricky right now. If you want to own shares of companies, you'll be getting into a [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY The recent plunge in popular tech stocks such as Facebook could be signaling a changing of the guard is underway in the U.S. stock market. [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY The list of companies caught in the brewing trade war between the U.S. and China reads like a who's who of American commerce: Boeing, Caterpillar, [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY President Donald Trump's threat to slap tariffs on an additional $200 billion in Chinese goods entering the U.S. has spooked financial markets and boosted fears [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY All those goals celebrated on the pitch during the World Cup probably won't help your stock portfolio score gains. Investors aren't big winners when the [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY If there aren't any small stocks in your investment portfolio or 401(k), you're missing out on big gains. While big stocks such as Apple and [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Most years, investing in stocks in May is akin to going on a beach vacation to Maine in February. Investors' money often gets an icy [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY U.S. stocks powered higher Monday after President Trump's top Treasury official said the trade war with China is 'on hold,' a truce that removed a [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Move over tiny houses, Wall Street investors are now tuning into tiny stocks. Indeed, the small-is-better trend has made its way to Wall Street. Small [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs is betting on bank stocks posting better gains than the rest of the U.S. stock market, mainly because the firm [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Last year was nirvana for retirement investors, but don't expect a repeat in 2018. The stock market surged nearly 20% in 2017 and had very [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY You've heard about the 'Trump bump.' But what about the 'Xi rally'? The Dow's 428-point upside surprise Tuesday was powered by a speech by Chinese [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY If you get rattled when the stock market behaves erratically and the Dow careens -- up and down hundreds of points in a single day [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY The 'Trump rally' has morphed into a presidential plunge. The total paper gain of U.S. stocks since Election Day has been sliced from $8.7 trillion [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Falling stock prices cause financial pain and emotional distress. And right now, investors are feeling blue as the U.S. stock market is mired in a [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY The stock market kicked off the second quarter with steep losses as trade worries and continued weakness in popular tech stocks sparked selling on Wall [...]