Encouraging holiday season sales numbers and labor data helped the Dow and S&P 500 continue their record run on Thursday. Initial claims dropped for the week ending Dec 21 and holidays sales were reported to have improved between Nov 1 and Dec 24 period. Positive holiday sales numbers lifted the retail sector into the green and was among the major […]
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Stocks ended nearly flat, as investors took a breather after yesterday’s bull run. Meanwhile the Dow finished at new record high for the second consecutive day. Trading volumes for the day remained low. The energy sector was the biggest gainer among the S&P 500 industry groups while utilities stocks incurred maximum losses.For a look at the issues currently facing the […]
Stocks moved higher on Wednesday, even after a reduction in monetary stimulus measures was announced by the Federal Reserve. The Fed said it was certain the economy was strong enough so that it could effect a modest taper to its stimulus program. The Dow and S&P 500 also finished at new record highs on the day. All the sectors in […]
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Wikimedia CommonsStocks are having a rough go of it in North American trading today.
The S&P 500 is down 0.5%, trading near 1773, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 0.8%, trading near 15,710. Both are at their lows of the day.Barring an afternoon comeback, this will be the third day in a row that stocks close in the red, […]
The following was written by Cory Massimino. In the years following the 2008 financial crisis the stock market, unlike the rest of the economy, has been outstanding. Last Monday the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index reached record highs following continued confidence in the Federal Reserve’s expansionary monetary policy. Shortly after trading began, the S&P hit […]
Originally published December 6, 2013 at 7:33 AM | Page modified December 7, 2013 at 2:25 AM
NEW YORK — Good news was finally good news for the stock market on Friday.Stocks rose sharply after the government reported a fourth straight month of solid U.S. job gains, the latest encouraging sign for the economy.The strengthening job market […]
