Category: Trading

June 11, 2021

Stocks were mixed in early trading Friday, but the S&P 500 is still on pace for its third weekly gain in a row. The S&P 500 gave up an early gain and was little changed after the first hour of […]

May 26, 2021

U.S. stocks edged higher in morning trading Wednesday as investors continue to monitor the economic recovery and rising inflation. The S&P 500 was up 0.2% as of 11:38 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which turned 125 years old, […]

May 20, 2021

Asian shares were mixed Friday after a rebound on Wall Street broke a three-day losing streak. Benchmarks rose in Tokyo, Taipei and Singapore but fell in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Investors were encouraged by the latest U.S. jobs data showing […]

May 14, 2021

Stocks have moved mostly higher in morning trading on Friday, extending the rebound seen over the course of the previous session. The major averages have all moved to the upside, with the Nasdaq showing a particularly strong advance. Currently, the […]

May 12, 2021

Asian stock markets retreated Wednesday as investors looked ahead to U.S. data they worry will show inflation is picking up. Shanghai, Tokyo and Southeast Asian markets declined. Hong Kong advanced. Overnight, Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index lost 0.9% amid […]

May 10, 2021

Drops in several Big Tech companies led the stock market lower Monday, pulling major indexes below the record highs they set last week. The S&P 500 spent the first half of the day wobbling between small gains and losses before […]

May 5, 2021

European markets closed higher on Wednesday, reacting positively to some upbeat earnings reports and encouraging economic data that indicate a fairly strong global economic rebound. Mining stocks moved higher as copper prices rose past a key psychological level of $10,000 […]

May 4, 2021

The U.S. trade deficit surged to a record $74.4 billion in March as an improving U.S. economy drove purchases of imported foreign goods. The deficit, the gap between what America buys from abroad and what it sells to other countries, […]

May 3, 2021

Estee Lauder — Shares of the beauty company fell more than 7% on Monday after missing analysts’ revenue estimates for the first quarter. Estee Lauder reported earnings per share of $1.62 on revenue of $3.86 billion. Wall Street expected earnings […]

April 26, 2021

LONDON — Bitcoin prices roared back Monday as the cryptocurrency market attempted to recover from a broad sell-off last week. At around 3 p.m. London time, the price of the world’s most valuable digital currency climbed more than 8% to […]