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Stocks shrugged off a "warmish" jobs report and were in the green as the markets closed for the week. As usual, the details matter. With about 25% of the 199,000 jobs created being government jobs

Stocks are trying to hold onto their recent gains. On Thursday, the Dow had a 500-point surge that pushed the index to its high for the year. The bullish sentiment came, in part, from an in-line

Stocks continued to rally in a short trading week. For now, investors are shrugging off a retail outlook that is cautious to bleak. Or are they? The breadth of this market rally continues to be

Stocks are looking to extend their November rally. This would make it three straight weeks of positive gains for the major exchanges. Positive news in the housing sector offset the disappointing

Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ: TSEM) is a well-positioned player in the global semiconductor market. Its analog-focused semiconductor manufacturing technology is in demand by industries across

Stocks closed the week with a strong rally that erased all the losses that hit the market after Fed chair Jerome Powell reiterated the Fed's stance that more interest rate hikes may be needed to

Equities rallied to close the week. If the S&P 500 finishes positive on Friday, it will mark the first time the index has closed in the green on all five trading days since November 2021.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average of blue chip stocks is trading higher for the week, but is still in correction territory, having posted losses in each of the past three months.

However, it’s a

The United States economy has achieved something most bears never expected: gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 4.9% during the past quarter, whereas economists only expected a 4.7% jump.

And now we wait for the Fed. A robust GDP number on Thursday and an in-line PCE reading on Friday weren't enough to keep the bears at bay. Even strong earnings reports from some of the big tech

All the major indexes moved lower in early Friday trading, making it a near certainty that stocks would post their worst week in a month. There are several reasons to justify the bearish sentiment

Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been the S&P 500’s big winner this year on the strength of its AI chips, but other chip stocks are also going along for the ride.

While stocks like Broadcom Inc.

Despite hitting all-time highs last year as one of the best stocks to own during a recession, Dollar Tree Inc (NASDAQ: DLTR) has been on the defensive since the summer. Until this past August

Stocks remained under pressure this week as the PPI and CPI both showed that the rate of inflation has stopped slowing. And with oil prices likely to remain at elevated levels, the economy may slow

The masters of the universe, otherwise known as the institutions that call upon investor capital (individual citizens or even entire governments), can often act as a proxy for what the global

Regarding small-caps and low-float stocks, the market works in cycles. Traders often experience lull periods of hard-to-come-by movers with impressive volume and range. On the other hand, there

Markets remain under pressure. This week, investors were spooked by the apparent hiring surge in September. The jobs report showed that over 370,000 jobs were created in September. At midday on

Historically, The end of the market's worst month and the end of a quarter has been volatile, mainly to the downside. Bond yields are up, and so are oil prices. Equities are down, as is the price of

Investors are fleeing equities after remarks from Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on September 20. Powell reiterated the central bank's intention to keep interest rates higher for longer. That

Markets continue to trade in a defined range, with the S&P 500 moving between support around 4330 and resistance at 4540. And despite the latest data showing inflation is increasing oil prices

It's frequently said that as Apple goes, so goes the market. So, it's not surprising that markets were mostly lower in a shortened trading week. Apple lost nearly $200 billion off its market

Coming up with an investment idea is the hardest part of the job. However, investors can add some worthwhile names to their watchlists after much - if not all - of the homework has been done for

The markets ended the week with mixed results as stocks enter what is historically the toughest month of the year. The jobs report offered some hope that the Federal Reserve may hold interest rates

Markets were holding on to slight gains to close the week. This was despite remarks by Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell that did not indicate that the Fed will retreat from its goal of keeping

With the AI bounce waning, will China’s sluggish economy further put the kibosh on near-term growth for semiconductor stocks like Monolithic Power Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: MPRW), Qualcomm Inc.