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...
Broadcast stock inch forward
The Fed indicated that it would keep buying bonds, and that apparently led investors to continue buying stocks, but if they were spending on...
Wall Street likes what the Fed is dishing out
The Federal Reserve is planning only modest changes to its policies, and Wall Street approved, sending stocks in general and broadcast stocks in particular...
Stocks mostly rise after exit by Summers
Stocks mostly rose on Monday, with the S&P 500 Index gaining for a ninth session in 10, as Wall Street celebrated Larry Summers taking...
Stocks gain with Fed meeting in view
Stocks rose on Friday, with the Dow industrials posting their best week since January, as worries about Syria ebbed and as investors looked to...
Stocks end lower; S&P 500 snaps 7-session win
Stocks ended lower on Thursday, with the S&P 500 snapping its seven-session win streak. The Dow dropped 25.96 points, or 0.2%, to 15,300.64. The...