Tag: trading

January 14, 2020

NEW YORK — Banking giant JPMorgan Chase said profit jumped 21% in the final three months of 2019, as the bank’s trading desks had a blowout quarter, which offset the impact of declining interest rates. The New York-based bank earned […]

December 24, 2019

U.S. Treasury yields were mostly unchanged on Tuesday as investors awaited an auction for government debt later in the morning. Trading in the bond-market will end at 2 p.m. ET based on recommendations from the Securities Industry Financial Market Association, […]

December 19, 2019

President Donald Trump was impeached Wednesday night by the House of Representatives, yet stocks were not unnerved on Thursday, ignoring the political firestorm and instead focusing on a trade deal with China and an economy that appears to be reaccelerating. […]

December 10, 2019

U.S. stocks on Tuesday swung from positive to negative territory as Wall Street weighed U.S-China trade developments, with a Dec. 15 deadline for additional tariffs on Chinese goods looming. Investors also were digesting news of a revised North American free […]

December 3, 2019

For months, investors’ eyes have been glued to large-cap indexes like the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average for signs of further life in the current bull market. But as of last week, small caps might be the […]

November 15, 2019

As the S&P 500 has broken out of its trading range into record highs, euphoria has been growing — fast. Technicians like Stephen Suttmeier at Bank of America Merrill Lynch have been positively giddy recently, noting a bullish rotation into […]

November 6, 2019

U.S. stocks wobbled between small gains and losses in early trading Wednesday and major indexes hovered around record highs as investors digested the latest batch of corporate earnings. Investors have been focusing on mostly solid corporate earnings and encouraging economic […]

November 1, 2019

October – historically a spooky month for stocks – wasn’t too scary this year. An ominous cloud typically hangs over the market in October due to the stockmarket crash of 1929, Black Monday in 1987 and the 2008 financial crisis, […]

October 25, 2019

European stocks edged lower on Friday, in the first opportunity for Continental stocks to react to Vice President Mike Pence’s critical comments toward China, as earnings season continued to generally favorable investor reaction. After closing Thursday at its highest level […]

October 21, 2019

Stocks moved broadly higher on Wall Street Monday as investors watch the latest corporate earnings and developments in the U.S.-China trade war. China’s top negotiator said over the weekend that “substantial progress” was being made in its talks with the […]