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By Jon D. Markman On August 6, 201803:13 PM Eastern
Stocks took a while to warm up this morning. But through mid-afternoon, all the major indexes were staking our decent gains.
The Dow Industrials were down as much as 50 points in the morning and...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On August 6, 201807:55 AM Eastern
A lot of expert manpower and money has been poured into the technology that underlies cryptocurrencies — Distributed Ledger Technology, or (DLT).
Major global banks are jumping into the space....
By Jon D. Markman On August 6, 201804:01 AM Eastern
Stocks moped around most of the Friday session before ripping higher into the closing bell, showing surprising sanguinity that the weekend would not bring a new wave of unfriendly headlines.
The...
By Jon D. Markman On August 3, 201803:20 PM Eastern
Stocks are mostly tiptoeing higher today following tepid data on July job growth. The benchmark S&P 500 is now on track for its fifth-straight weekly gain.
Through 2:30 p.m. Eastern, the Dow was...
By Tony Sagami On August 3, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Have you been watching short-term interest rates? If you haven’t, you darn well better pay attention because the jump in these rates could very well be the most dangerous development that you...
By Jon D. Markman On August 3, 201804:19 AM Eastern
Tech companies resumed their leadership role yesterday, helping the Nasdaq 100 rip 1.3% higher — a pace well ahead of fellow indexes, and in line with action that precedence led us to expect.
A...
By Jon D. Markman On August 2, 201803:11 PM Eastern
Tech companies resumed their leadership role in U.S. markets today, helping the Nasdaq 100 rip 1.2% higher — a pace well ahead of fellow indexes.
Through 2:30 p.m. Eastern, the Dow was down...
By Sean Brodrick On August 2, 201810:10 AM Eastern
Boy, the market went from good to bad to ugly yesterday. What an awful close. The broader market sank like a 350-pound swimmer drowning in a riptide, flailing and dragging down everyone around...
By Jon D. Markman On August 2, 201803:57 AM Eastern
Stocks churned uneasily on Wall Street Wednesday afternoon — investors sifted deliberatively through developments that include a hawkish Fed meeting, a worrisome escalation of Chinese trade...
By Jon D. Markman On August 1, 201803:08 PM Eastern
Stocks are churning on Wall Street this afternoon as investors sift through a wide variety of market-moving developments. The list includes a hawkish Fed meeting, a worrisome escalation of Chinese...