The start of a fresh trading week on Wall Street meant stale results for the Dow and NASDAQ as the Dow Jones industrial average dropped by over 132 points in afternoon trading before settling at 17,732. Visa, Microsoft and Apple were among the Dow's biggest losers today. The...
U.S. stock futures were close to even Tuesday, following another disappointing day for equities on Monday.
Monday's session pushed the Dow Jones Average into the red for 2015, and continued what’s becoming a troubling string of losses on the market. 10 of the last 14 sessions have seen the major...
U.S. stocks were down Wednesday, as another turbulent day in the Chinese market had spillover effects to the United States.
The Shanghai Index tumbled another 5% within Wednesday’s session, before recovering to finish up more than 1%. But the intra-day volatility impacted other Asian markets such as Japan and Singapore,...
U.S markets opened the final week of September 2015 with a nervous level of uncertainty on the ambiguity of a possible future rate hike by the Fed, along with more worries about the global economy. The S&P 500 dropped over 2.4%, falling below the emotionally important level of 1,900...
U.S. stocks were higher Monday, after shedding almost 1% in early trading. The continued slide in oil prices worried investors, as experts said the trend was becoming ‘problematic’ due to the inability of prices to find any sort of stability.
As of this morning, West Texas crude oil prices stood just...
U.S. stocks were higher on Wednesday, as the market attempted to recover from another damaging setback yesterday.
For most of Tuesday, the market appeared poised to recover a large amount of Monday’s losses, only to make a 180-degree turn in late trading and finish the day down about 1% across...
U.S. stocks were mixed in Tuesday afternoon trading, as market momentum slowed in the face of new increases in Treasury yields.
The market moved up on Tuesday morning after receiving better-than-expected housing data. Construction began on 1.13 million new houses in April—considerably better than the expected 1.02 million.
However, 10-year Treasury...
A surge in the energy sector pushed stocks higher Thursday, while investors considered the weekly jobless claims report.
The report released this morning showed 281,000 jobless claims, in line with expectations but slightly higher than last week’s figure of 268,000. This was the first report since Friday’s disappointing jobs figure...
U.S. stocks were mixed on Wednesday, as investors and experts disagreed on the meaning of the latest Federal Reserve meeting minutes.
The second half of this week is expected to be dominated by Federal Reserve policy statements and press conferences.
At 2 p.m. today, the Federal Reserve released the minutes from...
U.S. stocks traded lower Monday, as investors watched the fallout from Greece’s credit crisis affect markets in Europe.
As negotiations over a potential Greek bailout program continued, European markets dropped as much as 5 percent due to the uncertainty that followed a speech by Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
Tsipras reiterated...
