Stocks mostly ahead on Washington talks
Stocks mostly gained on Wednesday, with the Dow industrials and the S&P 500 rebounding after a two-day hit, amid talks to end the partial...
Stocks finish near lows as shutdown drags on
Stocks closed lower Tuesday near fresh session lows, as the partial government shutdown entered its eighth day with no clear end in sight. The...
Stocks drop as debt-ceiling deadline looms
Stocks declined on Monday, with the S&P 500 index closing at a four-week low, as a stalemate on Capitol Hill over preventing a government...
Stocks end higher Friday, but mostly down for week
Stocks stepped higher Friday but closed mostly lower for the week, as investors stayed sensitive to news about the government shutdown. The S&P rose...
Shutdown tamps down Wall Street results
A third day of reduced federal government activity took a toll on stock trading, but results in the broadcast sector were kind of mixed....
Stocks end lower on 2nd day of shutdown
Stocks closed lower Wednesday as the partial government shutdown entered its second day and a private-sector jobs report showed weaker-than-expected growth. The Dow fell...
Stocks rebound as shutdown risk becomes reality
Stocks posted broad gains Tuesday as a partial government shutdown removed an element of uncertainty that had dogged stocks in the prior two sessions....
Stocks hit by Washington worries, up for quarter
Stocks declined on Monday, with benchmark indexes still rising for a third consecutive quarter, as Wall Street considered a standoff on Capitol Hill and...
Stocks fall; first weekly drop since August
Stocks declined on Friday, with the S&P 500 and Dow posting their first weekly drop in four, as Wall Street remained unsettled over the...
Stocks climb as data cast better light on jobs
Stocks gained on Thursday, with the S&P 500 breaking its longest-running stretch of losses this year, as a bigger-than anticipated drop in jobless claims...
S&P 500 posts longest losing streak this year
Stocks dropped on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 posting its longest decline since December, as a possible government shutdown trumped better-than-forecast economic reports. The...
Dow, S&P 500 extend losing streak with late drop
The S&P 500 and the Dow industrials extended a losing streak to four sessions after giving up modest gains in late trade. The S&P...
Stocks fall on Fed talk, debt-ceiling worries
Stocks fell on Monday after notching three weeks of gains, as investors heard from Federal Reserve officials and considered another standoff in Washington. The...
Friday was not a fun day on Wall Street
Nobody can be sure what either the Fed or Congress are up to, and that makes for skittish stock trading. Suffice it to say...
What goes up must go down
After a Fed-fueled buying spree on Wednesday, prices floated back down to earth on Thursday, although you’d be hard pressed to decipher what was...