US Stocks

Last week marked the worst ever first five days of May for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The index had a weekly loss of 5.7%, after it dropped 139.89 points or 1.3%, to 10,380.43 on Friday. The S&P 500 Index also lost 17.27 points or 1.5%, to 1,110.88, off 6.4% for the week. For this index...

US stocks closed with heavy losses yesterday after the Dow plunged almost 1,000 points in the afternoon, before making a one-of-its-kind come-back, as worries that Europe would be unable to contain debt troubles, which sparked riots in Greece and caught hold of Wall Street. Peter Boockvar, equity...

US stocks are still down more than 3% today afternoon after all the three key indexers nosedived to the worst ever levels. While the Nasdaq was down over 9% at one point, the S&P 500 and Dow fell into negative territory for the first time in the year for a brief while, as concerns over the...

US stocks fell for a second day in a row yesterday as worries over the euro debt zone failed to subside. News of downgrade warning on Portugal and riots in Greece led to fears of the crisis continuing to escalate. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at its lowest since March 31, after it...

US stocks were at their worst yesterday as they made their biggest decline in the past three months. Worries surrounding Europe’s inability to solve Greece’s debt crisis, the investors shifted their focus from stocks and commodities to the US Treasury Bonds and the dollar. The Dow Jones Industrial...

US stocks rallied quickly after the Commerce Department reported higher-than-expected sales of new homes in March. The sales rose to the largest year-over-year increase in nearly five years as buyers rushed to secure government tax credits scheduled to expire at the end of April. After opening in...

US stocks went into losses yesterday, marking it the first day when the market went into the red this week. Resurfacing concerns regarding Greek and Portuguese debt pulled down the markets. However, market experts said that the mood has not turned bearish yet, as rising markets also have their down...

US stock futures reversed their trend and moved up today as markets assessed President Barack Obama's State of the Union address favorably. While futures on S&P 500 moved up eight-tenths of a point to 1095.40, those at NASDAQ 100 shifted up a quarter point to 1809.20. Futures on the Dow Jones...

With the news of dropping Sales of Home, US Stocks tumbles as well in early morning trading. New Home sales for September fell 3.6% to a 402,000 annual rate. The Figures for august sales were also readjusted lower. On early trading, the 30 Stock Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 19.5 points to...