Stocks end sharply higher Friday, with the Dow jumping 701 points, after the May jobs report showed the U.S. labor market is in surprisingly strong shape
The S&P 500 on Monday was looking to consolidate at its best level since August having rallied in recent sessions on the removal of U.S. debt default fears.
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By YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street moved modestly higher early Thursday after the United States House of Representatives approved a debt ceiling and budget cuts package, avoiding a default crisis. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials are flat before the bell and the S&P 500 rose 0.2%. The hard-fought compromise
The S&P 500 is now in what Wall Street refers to as a bull market, meaning the index has risen 20% or more from its most recent low. The S&P 500 closed Thursday at 4,294, and the bull market is considered to have begun on Oct. 13, 2022, a day after the index closed at 3,577. The rally was driven by a small group of mostly high-valued technology stocks. Wall Street’s nickname for a surging stock market is a bull market because bulls charge. In contrast, bears hibernate, so bears represent a...
The S&P 500 is now in what Wall Street refers to as a bull market, meaning the index has risen 20% or more from its most recent low. The S&P 500 closed Thursday at 4,294, and the bull market is considered to have begun on Oct. 13, 2022, a day after the index closed at 3,577. The rally was driven by a small group of mostly high-valued technology stocks. Wall Street’s nickname for a surging stock market is a bull market because bulls charge. In contrast, bears hibernate, so bears represent a...
NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. stocks are drifting Tuesday amid a vacuum of market-moving data, while U.S. regulators shook the cryptocurrency world again by filing charges against another mega player in the industry. The S&P 500 was 0.2% higher in midday trading, and it's near the edge of what traders call a bull market. It's almost 20% above where it was in mid-October, as a long-predicted recession has yet to hit and excitement around artificial intelligence has helped a select group of stocks to...
U.S. stocks were mixed on Monday, as Apple Inc hit a record high and investors weighed whether the Federal Reserve may pause its interest rate hikes at its upcoming policy meeting. Apple was up 0.9% after the world's most valuable company revamped its lineup of desktop and laptop Macs using its own processor chips ahead of its expected announcement of its first mixed-reality headset. U.S. stocks rallied on Friday after a report showed that wage growth moderated in May, raising bets that the...
U.S. stocks were little changed as traders digested a broad-based rally that pushed the S&P 500 to its best week since March and its highest level since August.