Tuesday brought a stock rebound – 6/14/11
A favorable report on retail sales gave Wall Street reason to celebrate after Monday's sell-off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 123 points, or...
Stocks drifted on Monday – 6/13/11
With no new economic data, the positives for Wall Street on Monday came from some corporate earnings reports, but that was countered by S&P...
Wall Street was a gloomy place on Friday – 6/10/11
The Federal Reserve decided to expand its scrutiny of banks, the foreign trade numbers from China were a downer and there was new battling...
Wall Street's 6-day losing streak ends – 6/9/11
Some bargain hunters stepped into the stock market on Thursday, following six days of price declines. Even so, there wasn't much enthusiasm driving the...
Big Ben's shadow extended to Wednesday – 6/8/11
Fed chief Ben Bernanke gloomy comments about the economy on Tuesday kept a lid on stock buying on Wednesday as well. The Dow Jones...
Big Ben sends stocks still lower – 6/7/11
Fed chief Ben Bernanke told a conference in Atlanta that the economic recovery is "frustratingly slow." That was not surprising, but it still got...
Stocks took another beating on Monday – 6/6/11
The weekend didn't make Friday's dismal jobs report look any better, so stocks fell again on Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 61...
Jobs news hit stocks hard on Friday – 6/3/11
News form the Labor Department that hiring slowed and the US unemployment rate went up a tenth of a point to 9.1% was not...
Stocks mixed ahead of Friday jobs report – 6/2/11
Stock prices moved pretty much sideways on Thursday - following the Wednesday sell-off - as traders awaited the Friday jobs report from the US...
Stocks took a beating on Wednesday – 6/1/11
A soft jobs report from ADP made private analysts lower their expectations for the government's jobs report coming Friday and the Institute for Supply...
May ended with a Wall Street gain – 5/31/11
Optimism about a solution to the Greek debt crisis put traders in a stock buying mood following the three-day weekend. The Dow Jones Industrial...
Confidence boosted stocks on Friday- 5/27/11
The latest Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment index came in higher than expectations and gave stocks a little boost on Friday, ahead of...
Stock market rose just a bit on Thursday – 5/26/11
A choppy session Thursday ended with stocks mostly a tiny bit higher, led by consumer-discretionary and tech issues. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was...
Buyers step up on Wall Street – 5/25/11
Bargain hunters moved into the market on Wednesday and pushed stock prices higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 38 points, or 0.3%, to...
Broadcasters beat a down market – 5/24/11
Continued worries about Europe and economic growth countered a rise in commodity prices and the stock market ended the day on the down side....