Stock Market Today

The U.S. stock sector could possibly be wanting at a 7 days of relative calm from a pretty lofty perch reached on strong third-quarter earnings, far more stimulus from the Federal Reserve and midterm elections that put the U.S. House of Representatives in GOP hands. “Next week is thankfully a little quieter. The huge majority [...]

The dollar soared and stocks posted modest gains on Friday after better-than-expected U.S. jobs data fueled hopes of faster economic recovery. News that nonfarm payrolls rose by 151,000 in October — more than double the expected increase — supported the gains seen in stock markets during the past two sessions, after the Federal Reserve announced [...]

Stocks hit their highest level since this rally began 20 months ago on Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s extraordinary plan to purchase Treasury securities for a second time, ensuring low interest rates for the foreseeable future. What investors may not realize is that this is now the strongest bull market for equities since 1945. Through 605 [...]

NEW YORK, Nov 4 (Reuters) – World stocks soared to highs last seen before Lehman Brothers’ collapse in 2008 and the dollar fell sharply on Thursday on rising risk appetite in the afterglow of the Federal Reserve’s asset buying plan. The Fed on Wednesday said it would spend $600 billion buying longer-term Treasury bonds through [...]

A stock market or equity market is a public market (a loose network of economic transactions, not a physical facility or discrete entity) for the trading of company stock (shares) and derivatives at an agreed price; these are securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately. The size of the [...]