After a horrendous August, September (Wall Street’s worst month historically) comes in like a bear. U.S. stocks plummeted Tuesday as fears about China and oil prices caused significant drops across all three major U.S. indexes yesterday. Dropping 3%, it marked the third largest daily decline for 2015.
Two separate reports...
Investors are no doubt thrilled that the month of January is over, thanks to substantial markets losses on Wall Street. In the opening month of 2016 the Dow dropped -5.50% , the Nasdaq fell -7.86% last month (its worse January since 2008) and the S&P 500 fell -5.07% for...
It was the start of a monumentally important week on Wall Street as the Fed will consider whether to raise interest rates midweek. It is widely expected that after the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee's two day meeting on Wednesday, the Fed will decide to raise interest rates by...
It was a relatively quiet end to the week on Wall Street which marked the calm before the storm in terms of next weeks Fed meeting. The Federal Open Market Committee is not expected to raise interest rates after their gathering next Tuesday & Wednesday, but investors will be...
After a long losing streak, Wall Street enjoyed a second consecutive positive finish on Thursday as markets rallied behind continued steadiness in oil prices.
Oil prices have been slashed by more than half in the past six months. So two consecutive days without further dips in prices was welcome news...
U.S. stocks were higher again Thursday, as oil prices staged a rally from near 7-year lows earlier this week.
Oil prices jumped more than 10% to $42.52 per barrel—up from the week’s low point of $38.95 per barrel.
Investors were encouraged by the first positive day in some time on the...
Wall Street got a much needed extra day off as the markets were closed Monday for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday. The first half of January this year has been disastrous for the markets and the worst, first two opening weeks for the Dow and S&P...
On a day when NJ Governor Chris Christie officially endorsed Donald Trump as the Republican Presidential nominee, markets struggled to gain any ground. The markets finished mixed on Friday but up for the week. There was continued concern about the solvency of Puerto Rico after the island's governor said...
Comments by European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi and a solid jobs report boosted investors' confidence as stocks rose 2% across the board today. The Dow added almost 370 points while the NASDAQ was up by over 104 points.
ECB chief Mario Draghi told the Economic Club of New...
Today marked the start of earnings season as major corporations began reporting their 1st quarter-2016 profits. Many analysts are expecting a disappointing first quarter. Today's Wall Street Journal explained why "Earnings Season" will be as bad as Wall Street expects. Read the story here.
According to a report on CNBC one...
