thinkstockOctober 20, 2014: Markets opened lower on Monday but the S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq Composite pushed into the green shortly after the opening bell. The DJIA stayed south of the…
thinkstockOctober 9, 2014: Markets opened lower on Thursday as crude oil prices continued to sink and the dollar strengthened. Every sector traded lower today even though new claims for unemployment benefits were…
thinkstockOctober 7, 2014: Markets opened lower on Tuesday and never even took a serious run at the break-even line. The JOLTS report on job openings posted a 13+-year high today, a good…
24/7 Wall St. wanted to look at the current trends to alert its readers what to be on the leery side of in this coming earnings season.
The bull market may be five and a half years old, but stocks have been fighting each week to hit newer highs. These are the best- and worst-performing Dow stocks so far…
The bull market may be five and a half years old, but stocks have been fighting each week to hit newer highs.
thinkstockSeptember 22, 2014: Markets opened lower on Monday following an announcement from China’s Finance Minister that the country would would not add more stimulus to the economy. In Japan, an imminent rise…
thinkstockSeptember 11, 2014: Markets opened lower on Thursday as healthcare and energy stocks weighed down the open. Equities appear to be headed for a mixed close as tech stocks have put some…
Caterpillar has been the fourth best-performing Dow component this year, but a new downgrade from Merrill Lynch has said enough is enough.
Jon C. Ogg thinkstockSeptember 3, 2014: Markets opened higher on Wednesday following a report — later said to be inaccurate — of a cease-fire in Ukraine. Equities have drifted lower all day. The Federal Reserve’s…
24/7 Wall St. reviews the so-called order backlog of service and product orders from companies to see what the future looks like.
thinkstockAugust 22, 2014: Markets opened mixed on Friday following news of a Russian convey moving into Ukraine. Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen’s speech today did not break any new ground, and provided little…
On Wednesday Caterpillar released its monthly dealer sales data for July. It seems odd to think that a 9% drop in total global demand is good.
Jon C. Ogg thinkstockAugust 11, 2014: Markets opened higher Monday following a relatively quiet weekend on the geopolitical front. Semiconductors and biotechs were among the better performing sectors on a day when no economic data…
thinkstockAugust 4, 2014: Markets opened higher Monday morning on the strength of technology and consumer discretionary stocks. There was no economic data published today and the Dow 30 blue chips posted the…
