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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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Like flipping a light switch, the tone of the stock market Tuesday went from 'get me out' to 'get back in.' A battered market that [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY A strong batch of quarterly profit reports from a trio of stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average sparked a market rebound Tuesday on Wall [...]

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 The Wall Street bull got bloodied and battered Wednesday as the stock market suffered its biggest sell-off since February. Investors bailed out of the market [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Technology stocks have accounted for more than half of the gain in the S&P 500 stock index this year. Is the market's reliance on tech [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Powered by big gains in popular technology companies such as Apple, Amazon and Netflix, the Nasdaq composite barreled through the 8,000 milestone for the first [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY This is a story about the incredible 'shrinking' Dow and what it means for your 401(k) and stock portfolio. It turns out the buyback boom [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Getting bumped from the Dow might not be the worst thing to happen to original member and fading American industrial powerhouse General Electric. How's that? [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Political turmoil in Europe is again creating havoc with Americans' 401(k) balances. Jitters about the makeup of Italy's next government and the possibility of a [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY A money manager who invests in undervalued stocks is calling for the bull market to run another three to five years and for the Dow [...]

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 Thinking about dodging the worst six-month stretch for stocks by following the Wall Street trading slogan 'Sell in May and go away?' Before you sell [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Wall Street's newest worry -- rising geopolitical tensions after President Trump warned of a U.S. strike on Syria -- dragged stock prices lower Wednesday. The [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY When stocks were getting bombarded with bad news on trade, tech privacy lapses and interest rate fears, Wall Street was holding out hope the U.S. [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Despite all the negatives swirling around the stock market, JPMorgan is still positive on U.S. stocks. 'Buy equities,' Dubravko Lakos-Bujas, the Wall Street firm's U.S. [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY The Dow notched its best daily point gain since October 2008 on Monday as fears of tightening global trade restrictions eased and the blue-chip index [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY U.S. stocks sold off sharply Thursday, with the Dow tumbling more than 700 points amid growing fears of a trade fight between the U.S. and [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Investors apparently don't like the data privacy controversy engulfing Facebook, and that worry -- along with rate hike and trade war fears -- pushed the [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Stock investors' hearts skipped a beat in February. It wasn't cupid messing with their emotions, but a sudden and sizable dive in stock prices that [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY There's a lot to learn from a stock market free fall. Investors with 401(k)s looking to better prepare themselves for the next big dive should [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY It's time to pop a Maalox. Blame the plunging Dow. The blue-chip stock average is trying to make a habit of daily 1,000-point dives. This [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 1,033 points Thursday, its second-worst one-day point drop in history, extending its losses this week to more than 10% [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY The Dow ended with a small decline Wednesday, failing to build on a big rebound the day before as turbulence continued to upend financial markets. [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY The Dow Jones industrial average suffered its biggest one-day point drop in history, plunging 1,175 points Monday and giving back all its 2018 gains as [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY After the worst weekly stock market drop in two years, investors shaken by the end of a long period of market calm will kick off [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY After a 25% surge last year, the Dow Jones industrial average is still on a tear, shooting up nearly 6% in January. Wary Main Street [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Despite giving up a big chunk of its early gains, the Dow closed up nearly 73 points Wednesday, coming off its worst two-day drop since [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Just when the U.S. stock market looked as if it would keep going up forever, the biggest two-day drop for the Dow since the middle [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Volatility is making a comeback on Wall Street. It took two consecutive days of steep drops in the stock market to remind people that the [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY The Dow's record-fast sprint to 26,000 early in the new year is raising concerns on Wall Street the stock market may be in danger of [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Don't let the stock market's one-way climb in 2017 fool you. Or, for that matter, the six consecutive up days to kick off the new [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY The milestone-busting Dow has done it again. The Dow Jones industrial average topped and closed above 25,000 for the first time Thursday, kicking off 2018 [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Late gifts from Santa often are the most cherished. Just ask Wall Street. Santa left investors a present early in 2018. The so-called 'Santa Claus [...]