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Stocks were mostly lower in Asia and oil prices fell Tuesday after another day of losses on Wall Street as anxiety over the war in Ukraine and an upcoming…

"Because sentiment is already so negative, that bottom could come sooner than you''d think," the "Mad Money" host said Monday.

U.S. stocks fall at the start of the week, weighed down by the lack of positive developments on the geopolitical front and rising Treasury yields ahead of the FOMC meeting.

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp USA is taking on talent from traditional Wall Street firms in an effort to boost its staff diversity, the company told Bloomberg during an…

China''s Covid shutdowns slammed tech stocks and oil prices. The Nasdaq broke below its Feb. 24 lows, but the S&P 500 hasn''t yet.

U.S. indices finished lower Monday amid continued Russia-Ukraine uncertainty, as well as in anticipation of this week’s Fed decision. The Nasdaq composite finished lower by 2.04% to 12,581; The Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 (NASDAQ: QQQ ) lost 1.92% to $318.17 The S&P 500 traded lower by 0.74% to 4,173; The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NASDAQ: SPY ) lost 0.72% to $417.06 The Dow Jones composite finished lower by 0.22% to 11,307; The SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust (NASDAQ: Full story available on Benzinga.com

Recently red-hot energy prices got hosed down on Monday, but that gave only limited relief to equities, and only in a few select quarters. U.S. crude oil futures plunged 5.8% to $103.01 per barrel, heading lower early in the day as Ukraine and Russia conducted fresh peace talks. Further downward pressure came from COVID-related lockdowns in China''s Shenzhen and Jilin provinces, as well as reports indicating that the U.S. might ease sanctions on Venezuela to get more oil on the market. SEE MORE 10 Beaten-Down Tech Stocks to Buy for the Long Term The drawdown in oil prices, which helped to soothe mounting inflation worries, lifted the broader equity indexes in the morning. Tempering that optimism, however, was a rise in Treasury rates ahead of the Federal Reserve''s much-anticipated March 15-16 meeting to determine the direction of its benchmark rate. "Our view remains that Fed interest rate hikes will likely begin this week with a 25-basis-point (0.25%) increase and then three to four more rate hikes at subsequent meetings in 2022," say LPL Financial strategists Lawrence Gillum and Ryan Detrick. "However, if inflationary pressures remain stubbornly high and we start to see longer-term inflation expectations become unanchored, the Fed may be forced to move more aggressively than what is even already priced in." As if that weren''t worrisome enough, investors also must keep a wary eye on Europe, where several countries have detected a COVID variant dubbed "deltacron," that shares elements of both the delta and omicron strains.

The direction of the June E-mini S&P 500 Index early Tuesday is likely to be determined by trader reaction to the first pivot at 4228.50.

U.S. stocks finish mostly lower Monday, with the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 index producing the firmest decline.

The stock market has turned mixed in Monday''s midday action after showing gains earlier in the day.

Wall Street ended lower on Monday, led by a drop in the Nasdaq, as investors sold tech and big growth names ahead of this week''s Federal Reserve meeting and an expected hike in interest rates.

S&P 500 Ends in Red as Tech Wreck Continues Ahead of Fed Meeting

While in theory a possible default sounds like a major financial event experts remain relaxed A Russian debt default, the first stage of which could arrive as soon as this week , sounds, in theory, like a major financial event. After all, the last time Russia defaulted – indeed, the only other time since the Bolshevik revolution more than a century ago – was 1998 and chaos was a genuine possibility. Long-Term Capital Management, an enormous and already-ailing hedge fund, couldn’t handle the explosion in volatility and the general flight to safety in financial markets. Within a few weeks, the US Federal Reserve had to strong-arm 14 Wall Street banks into agreeing a $3.6bn bailout of LTCM to prevent a wider meltdown. The Fed was probably right to fear contagion: LTCM was absurdly over-extended via leverage, and half of Wall Street was over-extended to it. Continue reading…

The friction between Russia and Ukraine has again brought to the forefront the importance of renewable energy sources, as it has become apparent how dependent Europe is on Russia for the supply of fossil fuels. In reaction, the European Union in early March unveiled a new plan to accelerate near-term deployment for renewables by 20% – a move BofA Securities strategists say boosts the outlook for wind stocks and other green energy investments . SEE MORE Kiplinger ESG 20: Our Favorite Picks for ESG Investors And in the U.S., the federal government recently netted a record $4.37 billion through the sale of more than 488,000 acres in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coasts of New York and New Jersey. The six offshore sites, once developed, are expected to generate around 7 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy. But this may be only the beginning, given President Joe Biden''s plan of deploying 30 GW of offshore wind energy in the U.S. by 2030. Plus, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects the the share of solar and wind renewable energy sources will grow from 13% in 2021 to 17% in 2023.

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