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. stocks were higher Wednesday, as the attention of Wall Street shifted from the Greece crisis to the Federal Reserve statement.
With no solution imminent in Greece, it made sense for investors to choose to follow the policymakers, in hopes of finding further clues to the timing of an interest...
After a volatile past couple of days, markets tried to salvage a win on the last trading day of the week. Financial stocks were among the issues that advanced as the major averages attempted to recoup some of the losses for the week after falling amid renewed concerns of...
The Dow's nine day winning streak ended today as did its record of seven consecutive days of record highs. The blue chip index was down over 120 points at one point before finally closing down nearly 80 points. The price of oil fell over 2% to under $45/barrel. Gold...
U.S. stocks were higher Tuesday, as investors turned away from concerns over the Greek credit crisis and looked toward tomorrow’s Fed meeting minutes.
The Dow regained much of its’ 107-point loss from Monday, as European equities stabilized amidst the ongoing controversy over Greece’s bailout conditions. The Greeks have a 1.7...
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...
A day after the Fed decided to raise interest rates a quarter of a percent for the first time in a decade, the volatile price of oil along with the energy sector caused the markets to drop today. Energy finished down 2.5% to lead nearly all S&P 500 sectors...
Amid a whirlwind of global activity, including the shoot-down of a Russian fighter jet by the Turkish military, Wall Street made some modest advances today thanks to gains in oil prices and energy stocks. Chris Faulkner-MacDonagh, market strategist at Standard Life Investments commented on today's event near the Turkish-Syrian...
A new survey released today by the American Association of Individual Investors shows less than 18% of everyday American investors are interested in investing on the stock market. That represents the basement level of support for stocks since April 2005 and drastically lower from l2014 when 58% of individual...
Despite surprisingly strong retail sales figures from Walmart & The Gap today , the markets suffered across the board losses. It comes on the one year anniversary of the Dow's last record high: (May 19, 2015- 18,312)
History says the stock market is not likely to hit a new record...
