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One Stock Sector
Plays Outsize
Role Today

markets

May 20, 2020 3:05 PM CDT

One Stock Sector Plays Outsize Role Today

Wall Street has an up day as the S&P 500 rises 1.7%

(Newser) - Stocks posted solid gains on Wall Street Wednesday, erasing their losses from a day earlier. Big-name investor favorites like Facebook, Apple, and Amazon helped pull the market higher, the AP reports. The S&P 500 rose 1.7%. Technology, the only sector that's holding on to a gain for...

Finally, Stocks Have an Up Day

markets

Apr 22, 2020 3:10 PM CDT

Finally, Stocks Have an Up Day

The S&P 500 index rises 2.3%

(Newser) - Stocks are closing higher on Wall Street after two days of losses, and the price of oil burst higher a day after a historic plunge, the AP reports. US crude jumped after President Donald Trump threatened the destruction of any Iranian gunboats that harass US Navy ships, raising the possibility...

Stocks Futures Plunge After Fed's Big Rate Cut

After Fed Cut, Stock Futures
Fall as Far as They Can Go

Mar 16, 2020 6:47 AM CDT

After Fed Cut, Stock Futures Fall as Far as They Can Go

Fed's 'monetary bazooka' has misfired

(Newser) - Investors appear to have viewed the Federal Reserve's big interest rate cut as desperate, not bold. After the Fed announced Sunday that the rate was being cut to almost zero, futures on the S&P 500 and Dow Jones plunged 5%, triggering the "limit down" to halt further...

Market Seesaw Continues: Dow Plunges at Open

Up, Down, Up, Down:
Dow Plunges at Open

Mar 5, 2020 8:35 AM CST

Up, Down, Up, Down: Dow Plunges at Open

Market volatility continues

(Newser) - Monday was great . Tuesday was awful . Wednesday was great . Now Thursday is at least starting out as awful. Such is the state of the stock market this week amid coronavirus fears. After Wednesday's surge, the Dow fell more than 700 points at the open, about 2.6%, per MarketWatch...

Trader Smells Something
Fishy in 'Trump Chaos Trades'

Oct 17, 2019 2:31 PM CDT

Trader Smells Something Fishy in 'Trump Chaos Trades'

But other market observers downplay concern over some hugely profitable moves

(Newser) - A provocative post at Vanity Fair is calling into question some seriously lucrative trades at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The piece by William Cohan recounts a number of trades that have paid off spectacularly well for somebody—a trader or perhaps a group of traders—after big market fluctuations brought...

Health Care Gets Hammered

markets

Apr 17, 2019 3:16 PM CDT

Health Care Gets Hammered

Possible congressional reforms spark fears on Wall Street

(Newser) - Stocks are closing lower on Wall Street Wednesday as losses by health care companies outweigh gains elsewhere in the market, the AP reports. Investors hammered insurers amid fears over the potential impact on their profits from health reforms being discussed in Congress. Anthem fell 3.6%, Cigna lost 3.7%,...

After a Record Surge, Stocks Head Back Down

Back to the Red: Market
Has a Brutal Opening

Dec 27, 2018 9:45 AM CST

Back to the Red: Market Has a Brutal Opening

Dow was down more than 400 points early

(Newser) - Wall Street's wild Christmas week rolls on. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 430 points in the first hour of trading Thursday, a day after notching its biggest-ever one-day point gain . Technology companies, health care stocks, and banks, all big gainers on Wednesday when the market had...

Markets Off to Brutal Start

Nov 20, 2018 9:40 AM CST

Markets Off to Brutal Start

Dow falls more than 500, putting 2018 gains at risk

(Newser) - Stocks are skidding again on Wall Street as a tech rout continues and several big retailers report weak results, per the AP . Apple sank another 3.6% in early trading Tuesday and Microsoft gave up 3.3%. Target, meanwhile, plunged 9.5% after missing Wall Street's earnings estimates. In...

Rough Day for Stocks,
Scary Warning on Housing

Oct 23, 2018 9:25 AM CDT

Rough Day for Stocks, Scary Warning on Housing

Dow falls more than 400 points

(Newser) - It's shaping up to be a bleak day on Wall Street, with the Dow falling more than 400 points at the open. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq were in similar straits. The Wall Street Journal chalks up the declines to lousy earnings reports from blue chips Caterpillar and...

Dow Just Reached
an All-Time High

Sep 20, 2018 9:02 AM CDT

Dow Just Reached an All-Time High

So did the S&P 500

(Newser) - The stock markets opened with a bang on Thursday, with both the Dow and the S&P 500 reaching all-time highs. CNBC chalks up part of it to investor sentiment that the trade war between the US and China won't be as bad as feared, despite the rhetoric between...

Market Milestone:
9 Years, 5 Months, 13 Days

the rundown

Aug 22, 2018 3:20 PM CDT

Market Milestone: 9 Years, 5 Months, 13 Days

The longest bull market in history is on the books

(Newser) - Dot-com bubble, eat your heart out: The S&P 500 has marked its longest-running bull market ever by going 3,454 days since hitting a low point in March 2009, the Wall Street Journal reports. Despite inching down a point Wednesday to 2,861, per the AP , the storied blue-chip...

S&P 500's Historic Moment As
Bull Run Stretches Ever Further

Aug 21, 2018 3:15 PM CDT

S&P 500's Historic Moment As Bull Run Stretches Ever Further

The index briefly traded at an all-time high Tuesday

(Newser) - The S&P 500 index briefly traded at an all-time high Tuesday just as the US stock market's bull run came closer to becoming the longest on record, per the AP . The market's benchmark index eked out a slight gain, closing a little below the high mark it...

Stocks Up on Good News for
Banks, Bad News for Borrowers

Jun 14, 2018 4:52 PM CDT

Stocks Up on Good News for Banks, Bad News for Borrowers

Rates are going higher as data shows confidence growing since Great Recession

(Newser) - US stocks mostly rose Thursday, as markets get accustomed to the idea of investing with less of a safety net from central banks around the world, reports the AP . The European Central Bank laid out its plan to pull back from the stimulus it's pumped into markets, but it...

Equities in 'Tailspin'
as Stocks Hit the
'Trump Slump'

Apr 3, 2018 6:41 AM CDT

Equities in 'Tailspin' as Stocks Hit the 'Trump Slump'

Not since the Great Depression have US stocks seen such a bad April slide, Bloomberg reports

(Newser) - US stocks haven't seen a second-quarter start like this in 90 years—90 years ago being the kickoff to the Great Depression. Bloomberg looked at the numbers and reports on the April slide: 2.2% for the S&P 500, a drop that hasn't been surpassed since 1929'...

Financial Experts Make
5 Predictions for 2018

Financial Experts Make 5 Predictions for 2018

On everything from IPOs to the S&P 500

(Newser) - It's that time of year when financial experts are asked to dust off their crystal balls and tea leaves and offer up their predictions for the economy in 2018. At Yahoo Finance , David Nelson warns that the problem with these predictions is that experts tend to extrapolate, i.e....

Wall Street's Bull Market
Celebrates a Milestone

the rundown

Mar 9, 2017 8:42 AM CST

Wall Street's Bull Market Celebrates a Milestone

It's 8 years old, but how can it last?

(Newser) - Thursday is a Wall Street milestone: The bull market that began on March 9, 2009, turns 8 years old, making it the second-longest such run in history. (It would need to go another year and a half or so to match the record from 1990 to 2000.) Some coverage:...

Markets: S&P 500 Sees Longest
Losing Streak Since 1980

Nov 4, 2016 3:16 PM CDT

Markets: S&P 500 Sees Longest Losing Streak Since 1980

Dow, Nasdaq also close lower

(Newser) - The stock market gave up an early gain and ended slightly lower, extending a losing streak for the Standard & Poor's 500 index to a ninth day, the longest losing streak in 36 years, the AP reports. While the losing streak for the market barometer has been long, it...

Across the World,
a Black Friday

Jun 24, 2016 6:44 AM CDT

Across the World, a Black Friday

The markets are reeling

(Newser) - Brace yourself for an "ugly open," America, warns MarketWatch in dubbing today "the most volatile and frightening trading day" the world has experienced since China fears rocked markets last August. The Brexit shocker sent Dow Jones futures plunging as much as 700 points, though as of this...

Dow Ends Day Up 348

Mar 1, 2016 3:21 PM CST

Dow Ends Day Up 348

S&P 500, Nasdaq also close higher

(Newser) - Stocks are closing sharply higher, giving the market its best day in over a month. Traders were encouraged by several pieces of good news on the US economy Tuesday, including a jump in construction spending to the highest level in eight years. Homebuilders and banks were among the biggest gainers....

Dow Ends Week Up 74

Oct 16, 2015 3:27 PM CDT

Dow Ends Week Up 74

S&P 500, Nasdaq also up

(Newser) - Stocks are closing higher after a day of meandering, giving the market its third straight week of gains. The Dow edged up 74 points, or 0.4%, to 17,215 Friday. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose nine points, or 0.5%, to 2,033. The Nasdaq composite...