Battered Boeing boosts the Dow, stocks mount impressive Monday rally
With surprising good news from battered Boeing (trading symbol: BA), a major Dow Jones Industrials component, market averages took off Monday like a shot.
With surprising good news from battered Boeing (trading symbol: BA), a major Dow Jones Industrials component, market averages took off Monday like a shot.
Discount brokerage house Charles Schwab Corp. announced it would eliminate most sales commissions for online stock trades on October 7. ISM Index drops.
Much of Friday’s market optimism involves China’s uncommon fondness for all things pork. Which is linked to alleged moves on the China tariff front.
Absent real news to drive the markets, the only game in town is the rumor mill. And this week's favorites are the latest incoming US-China trade rumors.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell awoke from his haze, halting 2018’s robo-rate hiking habit. At least for 2019. More or less. Score one for Trump vs Fed.
Markets ignored the past week's stream of generally much-improved earnings reports. They’ve chosen instead to fixate on the inevitable breaching of the dreaded 3 percent yield on the U.S. ten year bond, something that’s just occurred.
Traders and investors alike were shell-shocked at Friday’s closing bell on Wall Street. The Dow plunged nearly 3 percent on the day, and the S&P 500 and NASDAQ got pounded almost as badly.
Wall Street’s raging bull is attempting a serious return. Could this be the beginning of Trump Rally #3?
Are we witnessing a surprise stock market crash in progress? Immediately after Monday’s 9:30 a.m. opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, the stock market resumed Friday’s catastrophic 2+ percent Dow decline.
Almost immediately after Friday's opening bell,, the bellwether Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) hit a huge air pocket, dropping over 300 points in a matter of minutes.
Investors are already experiencing the kind of bear market nervousness they thought they'd left behind. The biggest villain in today’s Dow drop: High-fling UnitedHealth Group (symbol: UNH), off a painful $9.98 per share, with shares currently trading at $237 and change.
Widely followed average of major (more or less) industrial stocks scores another record close as Trump Rally continues. But what about Trump’s Tuesday speech?
But broader-based S&P 500 lags, with airlines, utilities, pharmaceuticals weighing on other sectors.
Dow briefly hits record high after announcement, then heads into negative territory. Other averages follow. 3 more rate hikes expected in 2017.
In election stunner, Hillary Clinton, Democrats, the MSM and die-hard #NeverTrumpers gobsmacked by Donald Trump's upset victory, confounding global markets and Wall Street alike.
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