U.S. stocks fluctuated considerably Monday, as investors weighed data, oil prices and other factors. By the end of the day, major indexes rebounded thanks to a 3.5% rise in oil prices.
Both indexes suffered major losses last week to end the abysmal month of January. This is the second straight...
The Dow Jones Industrial average saw its five day winning streak come to an end today as China was back in the news, which didn't bode well for Wall Street. Weaker-than-expected Chinese trade data increased investor worry about international economic growth.
Ben Pace, chief investment officer at HPM Partners said:
"I...
U.S. stocks tumbled again Friday, creating a sour finish to what’s been an ugly month on Wall Street.
Both the Dow and S&P are down at least 2% in this first month of 2015, as continued volatility and fear over dropping oil prices have ruled the markets in January. Even...
U.S. stock futures were mostly flat on Thursday, the day after the minutes from the most recent meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee all but confirmed an interest rate hike before the end of 2015.
While only a few policymakers support a rate hike as soon as June, the...
Another up day on Wall Street to start the new trading week. Despite signals to the contrary, the market continues to baffle many experts who do not believe the bulls should be running. Wall Street is on it's way to three straight weeks of gains as the Dow and...
U.S. stocks were largely unmoved this morning, even after a revisal of fourth-quarter GDP figures showed slower growth for the end of 2014.
Fourth-quarter GDP was revised to show a figure of 2.2 percent, a disappointing step down from the 4.5 percent and 5.0 percent figures on the second and...
U.S. stocks were higher on Wednesday, as markets attempted to recover from Tuesday's clobbering.
The Dow, NASDAQ and S&P 500 all lost more than 1% on Tuesday—the worst day this month on Wall Street. The dollar was the main culprit, rising more than 1.3% during the day and reaching its...
U.S. stocks were higher Thursday, as investors moved on from the Federal Reserve’s statement to eye inflation data.
The Federal Reserve not only avoided raising interest rates, they offered little in the way of hints as to the eventual timing of such a hike, although Fed Chair Janet Yellen did admit...
The final day of the trading week ended one of the worst weeks in Wall Street's history & the session ended much as it began on Monday, with big losses. The major indexes finished the week with losses of nearly 6 percent or more, one of their worst starts...
January 2016 will be a month that most investors will want to forget. So far this year The Dow is down -8.25%; the NASDAQ is off -10.36% and the S&P 500 has dropped -8% in just the first three trading weeks of 2016. Today's figures did not improve on...
