Stocks Struggle as Tech Shares Fall; Dollar Slides: Markets Wrap

Stocks in Europe struggled for traction after a mixed session in Asia, amid trading thinned by a holiday-shortened week. The dollar weakened against most G-10 peers as investors await the release of U.S. consumer-confidence data.

Chinese stocks fell on Christmas Day, extending this year’s underperformance in a slow session in which most global markets are closed. But Japan’s benchmark crept up to set another 26-year closing high. The Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.5% to 3280.46 amid continued weakness in small-caps, more …

The major European stock exchanges were shut and markets overall were quiet as the stellar year for risk assets crawls to its end, with the possible exception of the cryptocurrency roller coaster. Next year could bring more drama, with tensions simmering between the U.S. and Russia, Italy’s parliament set …

The company’s stock fell 9.1 percent Tuesday. It’s still up more than 150 percent since the name change. Bitcoin Investment Trust, a structured note that tracks the price of the digital token, jumped 22 percent. The publicly traded vehicle’s price exceeded the value of the bitcoin it holds by almost 100 percent …

U.S. stocks edged lower in their first day of trading since the Christmas holiday. Declining shares of Apple and some of its parts suppliers pulled major indexes down, while financial firms also struggled. That offset gains among energy companies and several major retailers that got a boost after new data …

“The reason our stock market is so successful is because of me,” U.S. President Donald Trump bragged to reporters last month. There is no arguing that markets have been buoyant since his election thirteen months ago: the S&P 500 index is up 28 percent. But is the president right to credit himself? A wider …

1 for “marketing services” with Future Money Trends, paid for with 1.3 million stockoptions and C$1 million in cash, according to filings and disclaimers. In the first week of trading, Hive shot up more than 500 percent as nearly a dozen articles streamed onto three websites, exhorting readers to buy the stock.

The Standard & Poor’s GSCI Total Return Index, which tracks 24 raw materials, is hovering near a record low valuation relative to the benchmark S&P 500 U.S. stockindex. That suggests a major and extended 10-year bull market run starting in 2018, said Shawn Hackett, the president of Hackett Financial …