Text size Contagion Concerns. The Dow looks set to go 0-for-September as it followed Tuesday's tiny losses with larger ones as Wednesday trading began. Fears of an emerging-market meltdown are front and center, but we…

Text size Here and There. Congressional testimony by Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey has hit the FANGs on Wednesday—and caused the Nasdaq to drop about 1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was flat despite big losses in Asia that…

Text size Eli Lilly (LLY) sold half-a-million dollars in shares of Zymeworks (ZYME) over the month of August. From Aug. 2 through 31, Lilly sold 36,931 shares of the Vancouver-based biopharmaceutical firm for a total…

Text size Stephen I. Sadove, former chairman and CEO of Saks, was named to the board of Movado Group (MOV) on Aug. 23, five days before the luxury brand’s second-quarter report sent shares tumbling 15%.…

Text size Tech Wreck. Congressional testimony by Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey was blamed for hitting tech stocks hard on Wednesday, causing the Nasdaq to close down more than 1%. The Dow Jones Industrial…

Text size Want to know why the Dow Jones Industrial Average is doing what it's doing? Check back here for a semi-live look at the volatile markets from Barron's reporters. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images 6:28…

Text size Get Back. The Dow was trading higher early Thursday, but the focus remains on emerging markets—they remain under pressure—and trade, as the U.S. could be readying more tariffs on China. The Nasdaq was edging up after tech stocks took…

•Talk tech's ongoing slide; •Touch on emerging markets' woes; •Point to Boeing (BA), a bright spot in the Dow. Stocks' early losses picked up steam on Thursday afternoon, with both tech and emerging economies propelling markets lower.…