John Divine

1 week ago | money.usnews.com | Jeff Reeves |John Divine

If you've overlooked industrial stocks in recent years, you're not alone. Compared with innovative biotechnology or software startups, a traditional manufacturer doesn't exactly make most investors stand up and take notice. But as the old saying goes, past performance is no guarantee of future returns. While the market has been in turmoil in 2025, many growth-oriented tech companies have fallen away – even as once-sleepy stocks have rotated into favor as they have put up impressive results.

2 weeks ago | money.usnews.com | Jeff Reeves |John Divine

It's tempting to think some magic number will guarantee that a stock will go up or down. But the hard reality is that Wall Street is as much of an expectations game as anything else. Fast-growing companies sometimes see shares decline simply because sentiment has soured, and long-suffering businesses can rally just because investors think future performance will be less bad than the past.

2 weeks ago | money.usnews.com | Tony Dong |John Divine

The Federal Reserve is stuck between a rock and a hard place as it tries to navigate its dual mandate – full employment and price stability – against the shockwaves triggered by President Donald Trump's blanket tariffs on global trade partners. Markets have already felt the heat. A two-day sell-off in the first week of April quickly gave the S&P 500 a 10% haircut, erasing trillions of dollars in stock market value. The tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 fared even worse, falling into bear market territory.

2 months ago | money.usnews.com | Glenn Fydenkevez |John Divine

In 2023 and 2024, investors could've gotten along quite nicely if they'd just overweighted the tech sector. That hasn't been the case in the early innings of 2025, with information technology clocking in as the single worst-performing of the S&P 500's 11 sectors. Through Feb. 12, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up about 4.3% thus far this year, while the S&P 500 is up 2.9% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index has added 1.8%.

2 months ago | money.usnews.com | Jeff Reeves |John Divine

Investors have been agog over the last year or two about the potential of artificial intelligence. Hardware stocks like Nvidia Corp. (ticker: NVDA) were red hot, and firms like Meta Platforms Inc. (META) were eager to tout how sophisticated their own internal models were.