Stock Market Today: Dow, S&P 500 score record closes after Powell remarks
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 17.15 points, or 0.04%, to end at 42,330.15, a record closing high. It is the index's 33rd record close of this year. The Dow rose 3211.29 points, or 8.21%, in the third quarter.
Stock market today: Wall Street sets more records to close a winning September and third quarter
Wall Street closed its latest winning month and quarter with more records on Monday. The drift higher for U.S. stocks followed a wild start to the week for financial markets in Asia, where Japanese stocks tumbled and Chinese indexes soared.
Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500 hit fresh records to cap strong September, quarter
Typically the cruelest month for stocks, Wall Street indexes recorded monthly wins to close out the last trading day of September. Notably, the S&P 500 notched its best year-to-date performance at September's end since 1997. The S&P also enjoyed its best quarter since the fourth quarter of 2021.
Stock market today: US indexes edge higher to records as Powell talks up strength of the economy
"Overall, the economy is in solid shape," Powell said in his prepared remarks on Monday. "We intend to use our tools to keep it there."
Stock Market Today: Dow falls over 150 points after Powell's remarks as traders trim bets on aggressive rate cuts
An unusual pattern that emerged in the stock market last week suggests traders scooped up protection that would buffer their portfolios from another market-shaking selloff in October, according to a report from Cboe Global Markets shared with MarketWatch on Monday.
Dow, S&P eke out closing highs after Powell's speech
The S&P 500 sputtered to a record high close on Monday, rebounding from a brief setback after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the U.S. central bank is in no hurry to implement further interest rate cuts.
The stock market is off to its best start to a year since 1997 under Bill Clinton
A massive port strike is threatening America’s delicate supply chains. The Federal Reserve is rushing to prevent unemployment ...
Stock Market Today: Dow ends lower as S&P 500, Nasdaq suffer worst day in nearly a month after Iran launches missile attack on Israel
Companies this year already have announced more than $1 billion of planned stock buybacks, a pace that likely eclipses the ...
Stock market today: Nasdaq leads stock declines while oil spikes on Iran attack
Technology ( XLK) was the day's biggest laggard, with the Nasdaq Composite down nearly 2% in afternoon trading. Within tech, ...
The biggest stock market winners and losers of the US port strike
"The longer this goes, the more the impact scales, and really it starts to scale exponentially," Stifel analyst Bruce Chan ...
The stock market's as strong as it's ever been, but there's a catch
But, there's a catch. Unlike most of the time prior to 2000, now you need 20-year holding periods to ensure you're achieving ...
China’s Stock-Market Revival Fails to Register With Fed-Obsessed US Traders
Back in the emerging-market heyday, the sudden frenzy that has pushed Chinese equities to a bull run would be big news on ...
Communist China is celebrating its 75th birthday and its stock market is soaring. But not everyone is in the party spirit
For much of the past year since China reopened to the world following the Covid-19 pandemic, a pall has hung over large ...
Stock Market News: Dow Falls, Oil Spikes on Escalation in Mideast Conflict
Dow and S&P 500 futures are falling, the Nasdaq is rising in premarket trading Tuesday as the stock market kicks off a new quarter.
Stock market today: US indexes drop as investors prepare for wave of jobs data this week
The ADP employment report on Wednesday, initial jobless claims on Thursday, and the September jobs report on Friday are on ...