Stock Market Today

European stock markets rose Wednesday, mining stocks led the gains again, New York main oil futures prices fell 1.3% to close at 76.56 U.S. dollars a barrel, Gold futures prices were flat. world’s major stock markets closed list Dow Jones 10116.89-1.11% The Nasdaq Composite Index 2189.11-1.50% Standard & Poor’s 500 index 1069.45-1.29% FTSE 100 5,214.64 [...]

EST at 16 o’clock on the July 21, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 109.43 points to close at 10,120.53 points, down 1.07%; the Nasdaq composite index fell 35.16 points to close at 2,187.33 points, down 1.58%; Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 13.89 points to close at 1,069.59 points, down 1.28%. Today, the largest [...]

Construction of new homes and apartments in the United States fell in June to the lowest level since October following the expiration of a government tax incentive, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday. Housing starts in June dropped 5 percent from a month earlier to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 549,000, the department said [...]

At least two people were killed and another two wounded by a group of unidentified gunmen before explosions rocked a hydro-electric station in Russia’s North Caucasus region on Wednesday, news agencies reported. The gunmen, believed to be militant fighters, entered the station at 04:20 a.m. Moscow time (0020 GMT) to place explosives and shot two [...]

British Prime Minister David Cameron is visiting Washington. His tour might help quench “the fire” triggered by the British Petroleum (BP) in the Gulf of Mexico, but seems less possible to rebalance its so-called special relationship with the United States. Cameron paid his first official visit to the White House, where he met with U.S. [...]