NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street shares fell on Monday, dragged lower by biotech and healthcare stocks, while European shares and the euro advanced on optimism over talks between Greece and its lenders after Greece reshuffled its negotiating team.The Nasdaq Biotech Index .NBI and the S&P Healthcare index .SPXHC posted their biggest daily percentage losses in about a month, after […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, adding to recent gains, after deal news including a bid from FedEx for a Dutch peer suggested companies still see value in the market.Healthcare stocks led the advance on the SP 500 with biotech shares up after four days of losses. The Nasdaq Biotech index .NBI added 1.8 percent, while the […]
NEW YORK — Expectations that the Federal Reserve will be slow to raise interest rates, spurred by a weak jobs report last week, helped send the stock market up Monday. A jump in the price of crude oil set off a rally in energy stocks.The stock market was closed Friday, the day the Labor Department reported that employers added just […]
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday, declining for the third straight session, as a selloff in technology and biotech stocks pushed indexes lower.The S&P 500 SPX, -0.88% lost 19.06 points, or 0.9%, to 2,072.44. Technology stocks were hit hard, with the largest company on the index, Apple Inc. dropping more than 1%.The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, […]
NEW YORK — The guessing game over higher interest rates is making for a jerky stock market.A day after their biggest gain in six weeks, stock indexes mostly fell on Tuesday as oil continued to slide and investors fretted over when the Federal Reserve will raise a key borrowing rate. The Fed kicked off a two-day meeting on Tuesday to […]
NEW YORK — Stocks climbed back close to record levels Thursday as technology, materials and energy companies all notched big gains.Cisco Systems led the technology sector higher after reporting better-than-expected earnings. Energy stocks rose as the price of oil rebounded from two days of heavy losses.There were big gains for online travel companies. Expedia and Orbitz jumped after Expedia said […]
NEW YORK — Some entrepreneurs looking for startup funding got a wad of money near the end of last year, but there are concerns the boom may not last.Startup iFunding is a beneficiary of the surge. The website focused on real estate investing raised nearly $2 million in just a month. Typically, it would take at least six months to […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)Gone are the days of excessive leverage and the dominance of Wall Street. Gone are the days when the stock market –and U.S. economy — had to be led by banks.”The U.S. economy is transitioning from a financial services economy into something much more real,” said Meredith Whitney, the former star Wall Street analyst who now helps run […]
Falling oil prices are bringing smiles to millions of Americans, but they’re also creating headaches for energy companies. Watch for this story to play out during the upcoming earnings season.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)It’s the best of times for consumer and transportation companies. They are capitalizing on extremely cheap gas that’s left consumers flush with cash.As earnings season begins this week, […]
Wall St. inches up in short session, indexes at recordsBy Ryan VlastelicaNEW YORK Wed Dec 24, 2014 11:41am EST
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The exterior of the New York Stock Exchange is pictured with a Christmas tree in front of it in the Manhattan Borough of New York, December 23, 2014. U.S. stocks advanced on Tuesday, as the Dow climbed above the 18,000 mark […]
