A better than expected July jobs report helped vault the markets into higher territory today. The U.S. economy added 255,000 jobs in July, well above the expected 180,000. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.9% but today's unemployment report sent stocks on major upswing with the S&P 500 &...
Rising oil prices highlighted the first day of the new trading week as investors awaited the results of new sales data expected by the end of the week. The markets began the day with the S&P 500 and NASDAQ at new, all-time high record levels.
More from CNBC below.
Oil rose...
Despite the NASDAQ closing at a new record high today, both Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump and world renowned economist and publisher of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report Marc Faber said today that the markets are ready for a big fall.
A day after detailing his economic plan, Donald...
Hump-day on Wall Street meant a down day for the market as all three major indices ended in the red. Energy stocks led the decline, falling 1.5% with oil finishing lower. Oil dropped almost 2.5% to close at $41.71 per barrel.
As CNBC's Bob Pisani reported today, the market is...
As all three U.S. stock indexes finished with record closes, word came today that Macy's, one of the world's largest retailers is closing 100 of its 650 stores, or 15% of its global locations. According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, more than 43,600 layoffs have been announced in the...
The markets retreated a bit on the last trading day of the week but they are still at or near all-time highs. With that being, said you may be wondering what happened the last time all 3 major U.S. stock indexes were at all-time record highs? Well, that was back...
Monday marked a great start to the trading week for all three major U.S. stock indices. The Dow, S&P 500 & NASDAQ each closed at all-time record highs. Why and what does it mean? See more from CNBC's Bob Pisani below.
Meantime, one giant in the hedge fund industry-David Tepper...
Stocks fell from their record highs today as comments from one of the Federal Reserve bank presidents spooked investors on Wall Street.
New York Fed President William Dudley said that a September rate hike "is possible."
Dudley told Fox Business Network-
"I don't think my views have changed very much. I think...
It was a relatively flat day on Wall Street, with small gains as markets struggled to gain any momentum following release of the July Fed minutes. General consensus from voting policymakers is that that more data is needed before another Fed rate hike is considered. Read the July Fed...
A mostly positive day on Wall Street thanks to improvement in the value of the U.S. dollar worldwide along with an increase in financial issues and materials stocks. After last week's turmoil in the markets over if and when the Fed might raise interest rates again, investors seemed pretty...
