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The major averages are comfortably higher on low volume as investors start to head for the exits and start the holidays.The S&P are up by +0.7%, Nasdaq +0.7% and Dow +0.6%. Ten of 11 S&P sectors are higher, led by Industrials and Materials. Real Estate is the only decliner. All …

Markets staged a considerable comeback on Tuesday, with all three major averages up more than 1% as investors weighed news of federal involvement to mitigate Omicron and imminent authorization of an at-home Covid-19 treatment.In a turnaround from earlier losses, the Dow rallied more than 500 points during intraday trading, up …

US stock markets have maintained uneven performance on the final trading day of the week as traders still busy digesting this week’s Fed’s hawkish signals pivot and a continued rise in global Omicron Covid-19 variant infections.The S&P 500 was last down 0.1%, though it bounced from earlier session lows in …

US stocks rose after Federal Reserve officials approved plans to speed up the withdrawal of the pandemic stimulus efforts, giving investors and traders more insight into the central bank’s response to hot inflation.All three major indexes turned higher after the afternoon release of a much-awaited Fed statement, published at the …

Tech shares investors are not waiting around for Powell to tell what economist and traders already know: The Fed is about to get very serious about inflation. The remainder of the market is waiting and holding their breath.The Dow Jones Index is flat. The S&P 500 is down just 0.2%. …

The S&P 500 falls during the New York session, it is traded is at 4,615.85, down by almost 1.02%, after the US Producer Price Index for November rose the most since 2010, on the footsteps of the last week’s CPI, as more pressures build up on the Federal Reserve Bank …

US shares markets came under pressure on the first trading day of the week after the S&P 500 managed a record high close last Friday at 4712.The index has dropped more than 25 points to current levels in the 4680s, recording recent decline of over 0.5%. Still, the S&P 500 …

US shares as well as oil prices reaped gains after fresh inflation data piqued investors’ hopes that price rises may be nearing a peak.The S&P 500 advanced 0.5% Friday. The index retreated Thursday but was on track for its strongest week of gains since February. The tech-focused Nasdaq Composite Index …

Markets retreated from their previous surging for three successive trading sessions, opening lower Thursday morning, despite fresh data from the US Labour Department that showed the number of Americans filing initial jobless claims fell to the lowest level in 52 years. All major US indexes were down in early trading, …

US shares have continued to recover in the second half of the US session, with the recovery now more broad-based with tech and growth stocks joining the party despite continued elevation in yields. The S&P 500 index is now up by nearly 1.5% and is eyeing a test of the …