It’s been another ugly day on Wall Street Wednesday, with the Dow dropping 200 points by noon off continued fears over interest rate hikes.
As the month of March—and the first quarter of 2015—winds to a close, investors are also expressing concern over how the stronger U.S. dollar will impact...
U.S. stock futures were lower Thursday, as investors turned a wary eye towards rising 10-year Treasury yields.
Yields move in the opposite direction of the bond’s price, so it was alarming when the European trade market saw bonds exceed 2.4 percent—the highest mark in 2015. The volatility seen in the...
U.S. stocks were lower on Wednesday as investors began to worry over continued issues in Chinese markets. The current figures show the S&P trading at a loss thus far in 2015.
Right before noon, trading on the NYSE was suspended due to a technical malfunction. It didn't resume until after...
Markets were up today as JP Morgan's earnings beat Wall Street's predictions and an overseas rally in China followed some encouraging trade data. The Dow closed at a 5 month high and financial stocks led the way.
Terry Sandven, chief equity strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management explained today's rally...
A gradual increase in the price of oil over the past 4 weeks has helped the stock market pick-up some decent gains. U.S. crude oil settled up 66 cents, or 1.74 percent, at $38.50 a barrel. Oil is now up 10% in a month. Another report says that the...
After some encouraging employment numbers for March the Dow closed near a 4 month high ending the week on a positive note. Even though oil finished down $1.55 a barrel closing at $36.79 (which wiped out gains for the year) the Dow Jones industrial average closed up about 107...
As expected, trading is off to a boring start for the last week of trading in 2013. All three major indices showed little change on the Monday following Christmas, as many offices that move the markets are somewhat vacant due to staff taking off for the holidays. A lack...
Wall Street finished down yet again on Wednesday, as poor earnings figures compounded the worst retail sales number in a year.
Earnings season is in full swing. The first taste of bad news came in the form of JP Morgan Chase reported a 6.6% drop in quarterly profits. This difference...
U.S. stocks were higher on Friday, as continued rises in the prices of both U.S. and Brent Crude oil gave investors confidence heading into the end of the work week.
The Euro zone reported GDP figures that grew 0.3 percent in the final quarter of 2014—higher than the expectations of...
Stocks closed down again today on the final trading day of the week and a headline on CNBC today got a lot of people's attention.
"World economy seems trapped in 'death spiral."-according to Citigroup
According to CNBC:
Some analysts — including those at Citi — have turned bearish on the world economy...
