Volatility is surging as the market posted its worst decline of the year on Tuesday. Investors are increasingly concerned over the chances that President Donald Trump’s promised pro-growth agenda makes it through Congress. How can investors trade the rising volatility using history as a guide? The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, is a key measure of market expectations of near-term volatility conveyed by S&P 500 stock index option prices, according to the CBOE. CBOE Volatility Index chart, one yea

The group known for being overly-bullish lemmings, got bearish in the last month ahead of the crack in the markets this week. Sell and underweight ratings are very rare — the vast majority of ratings for companies in the S&P 500 at any given time are buys or holds. In any given 30-day period, only a few hundred sell ratings are issued out of thousands of broker ratings. The half a percentage point movement in negative ratings we’ve seen in the last month is a relative change in sells of about 1

Jack Bogle, founder of the Vanguard group and creator of the first index fund, told CNBC PRO he is worried that just three firms — Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street — dominate the passive investing game. He believes more firms need to embrace the passive philosophy and reduce the influence of these companies, including his own. He believes more firms need to embrace the passive philosophy and reduce the influence of these companies, including his own. Overall, Bogle remains concerned about Wa

UBS analyst Steven Milunovich shared his views on Apple in an interview Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.” On Apple in China: “China is critical to Apple. And how the iPhone 8 does next year depends to a large degree on how China does. We do think the issues that Apple has had in China are more cyclical than secular.” Milunovich is the managing director at UBS, known for his coverage of technology stocks and detailed analysis of Apple.

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty shared her views on technology trends in an interview Tuesday on CNBC’s “Power Lunch.” On Friday’s meeting with President Donald Trump: “We’ve got 5.5 million opens jobs and half a million open tech jobs, so that’s really one of the most important things. That’s really been a focus and was a focus of the meeting on Friday,” she said. On what makes IBM’s cloud offering special: “The three biggest differentiators about the IBM cloud and why it is the platform for the next era

[The stream is slated to start at 10 a.m., ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and the House GOP leaders hold a news conference following a closed meeting of the House GOP Conference.

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The Senate Judiciary Committee continues its nomination hearing for Neil Gorsuch to be U.S. Supreme Court justice. Read hearing coverage:Trump’s Supreme Court pick Gorsuch aims to show he can break with the presidentHere’s what Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch had to say about Trump’s travel banNeil Gorsuch: Supreme Court has said same-sex marriage is ‘protected by the Constitution’

The result, crude oil stocks in the U.S. hit an all-time record high last week. Late last year, Canadian oil producers announced expansion projects: Cenovus at Christina Lake and CNRL at Kirby North. Add to the mix the return of Libyan oil supplies and the oil market is simply not drawing inventories as fast as OPEC and non OPEC producers would like. Commentary by Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates. Disclosure: Andy Lipow and Lipow Oil Associates do not own or trade any of the stocks

The investigation began in July, months before the election, Comey said, adding that he cannot predict when it will conclude. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday that the House hearing did not show any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. In his opening statement, committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., reiterated his previous public statement that he has seen no evidence Trump Tower was wiretapped. Nunes told Fox News that he saw no information to show collusi

Apple’s next version of the iPhone will lead to a “paradigm shift,” with augmented reality as its foundation, said Gene Munster, managing partner at VC firm Loop Ventures. Augmented reality — which differs from virtual reality in that it is not completely immersive — will be the key to not just Apple’s future but the future of tech. That shift will ultimately be good for Apple’s stock, he said. “You start to get more comfortable when you put together the services side of the business on top of t

This pink diamond is expected to become the most expensive ever auctioned Monday, 20 Mar 2017 | 2:50 PM ET | 00:48A 59.6-carat pink diamond is expected to become the most expensive diamond ever auctioned when it comes up for sale next month. Sotheby’s plans to auction the famous “Pink Star” diamond — an internally flawless, fancy vivid pink stone — at its sale in Hong Kong on April 4. If it fetches that price, it will become the most expensive diamond ever sold at auction, topping the $57.5 mill

“We’re no longer in a period where you can just get organic growth,” said Tamara Gaffney, principal analyst at Adobe Digital Insights. Mobile accounted for 83 percent of Facebook’s ad revenue last year, compared with 77 percent in 2015, according to the company’s filings. For Google, mobile ads are about half of the company’s ad revenue. The companies themselves report a number of different per ad revenue metrics. “The majority of the digital ad spend is in search and the majority is going to on

The world’s second-largest economy has many challenges ahead, both external and domestic. At the China Development Forum in Beijing, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said he believes Chinese policymakers are struggling most with capital outflows and an overheating property market. Meanwhile, People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said in a March news conference that China’s corporate debt levels are too high, but it will take time to bring them to more manageable levels. Pres

[The stream is slated to start at 1:30 p.m., ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds his daily briefing on Monday afternoon.

The personal information of tens of thousands of customers of Saks Fifth Avenue has been publicly available in plain text online, BuzzFeed News has learned. The online shopping site for the brand is maintained by the digital division of its owner, the Canada-based Hudson’s Bay Company. “We take this matter seriously,” a Hudson Bay Company spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. CORRECTION: Personal information for Saks Fifth Avenue customers was made publicly available. An earlier version of this artic

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Microsoft is giving Salesforce a real run for its money Tuesday, 21 Mar 2017 | 11:12 AM ET | 00:35Microsoft just took a direct swipe at Salesforce with a new enterprise-ready version of LinkedIn’s product for sales professionals, Sales Navigator. “Today’s announcements take Sales Navigator to the next level,” Doug Camplejohn, LinkedIn sales solutions head of product, said in a blog. Microsoft beat out Salesforce to acquire Linkedin for $26.2 billion — by far the company’s largest acquisition to

MuleSoft shares popped more than 45 percent in their trading debut, beating Snap for the best first day IPO gains so far this year. The company priced its 13 million share offering at $17 a share on Thursday, above the expected range of $14 to $16. The San-Francisco software company raised money from investors like Salesforce Ventures and Lightspeed Ventures Partners. The Mulesoft IPO was arguably more important for Silicon Valley than Snap because of the number of mid-market enterprise cloud co

Snap shares slid on Friday, hovering around $19, after Mizuho initiated coverage on the company at “neutral” with a price target of $20. The parent company of Snapchat closed down nearly 2 percent Friday, marking an 11.5 percent decline for the week. The stock fell 18.5 percent in the week that ended March 10. Mizuho’s coverage came as Snap has raised some eyebrows on Wall Street, with analysts flagging the company’s slowing user growth, widening losses and lack of voting rights for outside inve