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Stocks close mixed: S&P drops, Dow bumps up
November 5th, 2014
Stocks closed mixed Tuesday as markets struggled from a one-two punch of falling oil prices and renewed fears of a global slowdown. A wait-and-see posture regarding Tuesday’s elections may also be holding back investors. The Standard & Poor’s 500 ...
Dow, S&P 500 close slightly lower; semis boost Nasdaq
November 4th, 2014
The S&P 500 and the Dow closed with slight losses on Monday after briefly touching intraday records, but strength in semiconductors boosted the Nasdaq. Monday’s subdued trading followed the Dow’s biggest weekly gain since January 2013 and the S&P’s ...
S&P 500 Rising at Five Times GDP Shows Recovery Priced In
October 27th, 2014
For almost six years, one of the most powerful bull markets on record has coexisted with the weakest economic recovery since World War II. This month’s selloff in stocks shows how much investors want that to change. In the ...
Stocks fall as S&P 500 breaks 4-day winning streak
October 23rd, 2014
Dow drops 153 points and falls back into the red for the year. Stocks fell Wednesday, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average back into the red for the year and breaking the S&P 500’s four-day winning streak. The market ...
Stocks rise: S&P 500 up for 3rd straight day
October 21st, 2014
Nasdaq also rises for a third straight day and the Dow comes back from a 120-point drop. Stocks closed higher Monday, adding to Friday’s strong rally as investors shake off last week’s volatile trading. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock ...
Greithner must deliver S&P documents in $5 billion U.S. fraud lawsuit
September 26th, 2014
On legal news, Timothy Geithner, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, must give Standard & Poor’s documents, basically unedited versions, he used when writing his best-selling memoir, a ruling that could help S&P defend against the government’s $5 billion fraud lawsuit ...
S&P 500 Short-Term Contracts See Trading Volume Jump
September 11th, 2014
In a market where stock volume is evaporating, volume in short-term options is surging. A daily average of 309,000 contracts on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (SPX) that expire weekly have changed hands in the first four days ...
U.S. Index Futures Little Changed With S&P 500 at Record
August 27th, 2014
U.S. stock futures were little changed, after the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index closed above 2,000 for the first time, as Tiffany & Co. (TIF) climbed while Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. slumped on earnings projections. Futures on the ...
S&P 500 index over 2,000 for first time
August 26th, 2014
US shares hit a record high yesterday, with the S&P 500 index breaking the 2,000-point mark during trading for the first time in its history. Global investors have piled into American stocks, pumped up by cheap money from central ...
U.S. confident its $5 billion S&P lawsuit was not retaliation
August 26th, 2014
The United States, which is suing Standard & Poor’s for $5 billion over its credit ratings, said on Monday it is confident that documents the rating agency wants for its defense will not show that the lawsuit was filed ...
