It was a down day on Wall St. as stocks closed lower across the board. Investors continued to consider the possibility of a December rate hike and looked closely at 3rd quarter earnings.
According to CNBC:
"Should the economy show signs of improvement and global conditions do not worsen, the Federal...
U.S. stocks were hammered on Thursday, as investors continued to fret over the dropping price of oil.
Crude oil dipped below $40 per barrel early on Thursday, a fresh 6 ½ year low for prices. The latest drop was buoyed by an unexpected surplus in the latest report on U.S....
The market displayed some explosive volatility today and eventually continued its downward slide from last Friday. At one point the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down over 400 points before recovering half the losses.. The major concern today was worries over global growth. Kate Warne, investment strategist at Edward...
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...
U.S. stocks were down Monday, as investors wait for the final details of Greece’s bailout extension.
News of the extension pushed the Dow and S&P 500 to record closes Friday, when it was announced that Euro zone finance ministers had agreed to continue the bailout process through June. The deal...
CNBC reported late today that the Fed is telling banks to prepare for the possibility of negative interest rates.
"For the first time ever, the governing agency and U.S. central bank is requiring banks to include, in a round of stress tests commencing this year, to prepare for the possibility...
U.S. stock futures stayed relatively level Tuesday as investors continued to digest news from the Euro zone, where the end of Greece’s bailout program continues to loom large.
Talks broke off abruptly Monday between Greek officials and representatives from other Euro Zone nations. An official from Greece Prime Minister Alexis...
U.S. stocks were largely split on Wednesday, as gains in Disney and consumer discretionary spending battled against the screeching halt of the oil rally.
The Dow lost 510 points in the last week of January, but regained all but nine of them in the first two days of February trading....
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...
As the markets finished with gains across the board today, came news that should be very disheartening to women. According to The National Institute on Retirement Security, a nonprofit research center, women are 80 percent more likely than men to be face poverty at age 65 and older. Women...
