Tag: market

January 13, 2021

Stocks shook off a midday slide and ended with modest gains Tuesday, leaving the major indexes close to their recent all-time highs. Small-company stocks continued to outpace the rest of the market by a wide margin, a sign that investors […]

January 12, 2021

Urban Outfitters — Shares of the retailer slid more than 11% after Urban Outfitters said net sales for the two months ended Dec. 31 fell 8.4% year over year. The company also announced that CEO Trish Donnelly will depart at […]

January 6, 2021

Banking stocks were rising Wednesday as Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock beat the Republican incumbent, Kelly Loeffler, in Georgia, opening up the possibility of a Democratic takeover of the U.S. Senate. Shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) – Get Report […]

November 25, 2020

The Federal Reserve could provide clues about its bond buying program when it releases its minutes Wednesday, but the odds the central bank takes action at its December meeting have fallen slightly with the expected nomination of Janet Yellen as […]

October 22, 2020

Is a vaccine the real risk to the market? Stocks are within 1% to 2% of their historic highs because of the belief that stimulus of some form is coming, the election will not devolve into chaos, and an effective […]

October 8, 2020

Gold rose Thursday to stage a partial rebound from a more than one-week low a day earlier, buoyed by optimism over the renewed prospects for some sort of U.S fiscal stimulus. Prices held onto their gains after data on Thursday […]

October 8, 2020

IBM (IBM) – IBM said it would spin off the managed infrastructure services unit of its global technology services division into a separate public company, to allow it to focus on its hybrid cloud growth strategy. The spin-off will be […]

October 6, 2020

Gold futures finished lower on Tuesday, a day after settling at their highest in just over two weeks on the heels of a weaker U.S. dollar. Investors continued to keep an eye on the moves in the dollar, as well […]

October 5, 2020

The markets are coiling and compressing as they process jarring events and political suspense, with potential energy building up for eventual release. The stock market has been vibrating within a tight range for a month, an agitated stasis that was […]

September 28, 2020

U.S. stock indexes on Monday looked poised to advance sharply to start the week as investors brace for a period in which the race for the White House and the state of the economy may come into greater clarity. How […]