Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 20, 2015. AP Photo/Richard DrewU.S. stocks surged on Friday, lifting the Nasdaq Composite (COMP) to a 15-year high, as Wall Street embraced quarterly results from Nike (NKE) and others and the U.S. dollar softened against other global currencies.”The fact that the Nasdaq is above 5,000 from technical […]
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — About 10 hours ahead of the start of U.S. stock trading in New York, share-index futures were implying a moderately higher open for the Wednesday session. Futures for the S&P 500 SPX, +1.26% Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +1.47% and Nasdaq 100 all pointed to a 0.3% gain at the start of trade. While the futures […]
The Nasdaq Composite Index has nearly doubled since the end of 2011, led by its riskiest sector: biotechnology.But biotech companies vary more than most in other industries. Some have no hopes of ever making money. And others are backed by products that are established in the marketplace and are quite profitable.The Nasdaq Biotechnology Index NBI, +0.40% has risen 227% since […]
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Wall Street picked up where it […]
