U.S. shares surged Thursday reacting to banks’ strong quarterly results. Dow Jones rose 533 points, or 1.55%, while the S&P 500 index advanced 1.71% to post its best day since March and the Nasdaq Composite index tacked on 1.73% for its best session since May.Strong gains came as jobless claims …
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Citigroup and other major U.S. banks said customer spending has eclipsed pre-pandemic levels.U.S. stocks jumped Thursday, bolstered by better-than-expected earnings and economic data that helped ease investor concerns about inflationary pressures and a slowdown in growth.Wall Street is booming, or at least parts of it are. Merger mania and stock …
Read More »Dow Jones Touches The Extended Target
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Read More »CPI data creates problems for Wall Street
Stocks on Wall Street drifted between gains and losses on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 down 0.2% soon after the start of trading. The Nasdaq composite ticked up 0.3%. After opening higher, the Dow and S&P 500 soon lost momentum and gave back their modest gains in exchange for losses. …
Read More »Dow Jones Surrenders to the Downside
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Read More »U.S. material and energy stocks rose over oil prices surge
Oil prices surged on Monday to significant highs, the move is boosting U.S. materials and energy stocks, but concerns that rising prices would worsen supply chain caused Wall Street to give up early gains.U.S. crude jumped 2.5% to $81.31 per barrel, a level not seen since late 2014, and Brent …
Read More »Indexes step into confusion zone after NFP data
Investors’ prevalent sentiment tends to be overwhelmed by hesitation and confusion which have become an inseparable part of the scene because the implications of the NFP jobs data announced Friday.The stock market was wavering on Friday after the September jobs report missed estimates, though the data were better than the …
Read More »Wall Street shows no big panic at mixed jobs data
America added far fewer jobs in September than expected, but investors didn’t seem too disappointed. Stocks were flat Friday as Wall Street took to some comfort that the unemployment rate continues to drop after the pandemic-fueled spike last year.The Dow rose about 20 points, or 0.1%, shortly after the opening, …
Read More »Dow Jones Continues to Negative Ahead of NFP
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