Stock Market Today: Dow Wavers; Treasury Yields Decline
Live updates on stocks, bonds and other markets, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite.
S&P 500 edges above record closing peak in afternoon trading
The S&P 500 was edging up on Friday afternoon, trading slightly above its record closing high, as the U.S. stock market mostly rose. Traders were pushing the S&P 500 index up 0.1% to around 6,121, ...
Why the U.S. stock market may continue to hold up even as inflation rises again
Investors typically expect rising long-term rates to put pressure on stocks, especially when inflation spikes, but the S&P 500 SPX was up slightly for one week through Thursday, up 4.1% for 2025 and ...
Dow turns lower as stocks give up early gains ahead of long holiday weekend
U.S. stocks have seen their modest early gains ease in recent trading, with the S&P 500 briefly dipping into the red, with the long holiday weekend ahead. While the really in stocks appeared to pause ...
Stocks poised to break out of post-election trading range: Nationwide
The S&P 500 came within a whisker -- one point -- of a fresh intraday record earlier. Whether the index can register a fresh closing high on Friday remains to be seen. It's still worth pointing out ...
‘Don’t freak out’: LA wildfires partly behind weak retail-sales report
Temporary headwinds including the Los Angeles wildfires and “bad winter weather” in the U.S. kept consumers from spending on nonessential items last month, with retail sales in January coming in ...
S&P 500, Nasdaq head for first weekly advance in three weeks
U.S. stocks saw the pace of their advance slow on Friday after tallying strong gains one day earlier. Market strategists largely attributed Thursday's rally to the perception that President Trump's ta ...
Despite tariff fears European stocks have outperformed Wall Street this year. Here's why UBS thinks that will continue.
In addition, further weakness in the euro - UBS sees it falling to $0.99 by the end of 2025 - would be consistent with improving earnings revisions. A 10% fall in the euro may increase European ...
The S&P 500 pushed through its trading range - but can the bulls hold the line?
The S&P 500 Index SPX has managed to push through the top of its trading range, past 6,100. The question now is whether this will generate stronger momentum, or if it will retreat back to the lower ...
The stock market is ignoring what could be its No. 1 threat
Stock prices have held up remarkably well in the face of worries about DeepSeek, tariffs, geopolitics and other economic developments. But U.S. stock-market investors seem to be ignoring tail risk, ...
This cheap, balanced portfolio will give you more than any pricey hedge fund
As I've written repeatedly in recent months, the U.S. stock market is extremely overvalued, with an expected return over the next decade that is well below the rate of inflation. Bonds also appear to ...
This fund surged 40% last year. The manager now likes Netflix and these two stocks.
A 23% return for the S&P 500 last year was certainly nothing to sniff at, but T. Rowe Price's $10.41 billion Science & Technology Fund PRSCX blew that out of the water with a 40.3% gain. Granted one ...