The 50-day moving average is a short- to mid-term trend indicator. When a stock is above its rising 50-day MA, it has about a 67% chance of closing higher the next day. That trend flips bearish when the 50-day is sloping downward. This “technical rule” can be used effectively on stocks, ETFs and market indices.

Wall Street in recent weeks had begun to shift focus away from tariffs and toward Trump’s tax bill — its own headache for markets — after the United States and China in May opened trade negotiations and agreed to substantially lower tariffs, easing investors’ nerves about the trade war.

U.S. stocks are heading for the worst week since early April as rising Treasury yields and the latest President Trump tariff threats have taken their toll. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq Composite and Dow Jones Industrial Average were heading for their worst week since April 17,

Things are starting to look up for stocks again, with the S&P 500 recovering all of the ground it lost in March and April. Still, the painful ride investors were put through in the past quarter shouldn’t be soon forgotten.

Bond yields inched higher and Wall Street flipped from small gains to losses before the opening bell Thursday after rising U.S. debt sank markets on the previous day.

Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 are down, and the Nasdaq is up Thursday. The 10-year Treasury yield retreats.

In a repeat of the drama from one day earlier, Thursday's stock-market action is shaping up to be a tug-of-war between rallying technology stocks, and rising bond yields. While rising long-end yields have been blamed for weakness in stocks this week,

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Adjusted for inflation (the 7% annual return number), that number rises to 10.3 years, which means once every decade, the real purchasing power of our investments doubles if we hold the S&P 500. If you have more than $500,000 now, you'll be a millionaire in 2035. Again, technically speaking.

The U.S. equities market was falling midday Friday, as technology stocks weighed on major benchmarks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 311 points, or 0.7%, to 41,548. The S&P 500 was falling almost 49 points,