Closing Recap U.S. stocks finished broadly lower on Thursday in one of the most volatile sessions in recent memory. A brutal sell-off in Microsoft, which lost a staggering $441 billion in market cap in its seventh-worst day ever, sent a shockwave through the technology sector and the broader market. The Nasdaq snapped its 6-day losing…
Closing Recap U.S. stocks finished mixed on Wednesday after a volatile session dominated by the Federal Reserve’s first policy decision of the year. The S&P 500 briefly touched the historic 7,000 level for the first time ever, though it couldn’t hold the gains into the close. The Nasdaq was the clear outperformer, while the Dow…
Closing Recap U.S. stocks rallied on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 surging to a new all-time high as a rebound in technology stocks lifted the broader market. The Nasdaq led the gains with a 0.91% advance, while the Dow underperformed, weighed down by a sharp drop in healthcare stocks. The market’s focus is now squarely…
Closing Recap U.S. stocks rallied on Monday, starting the week on a strong note as investors bought the dip after two consecutive weekly losses. The major indices advanced in a low-volume session, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq leading the charge. The rally was broad-based, with nine of eleven S&P sectors finishing in the green. The positive…
Closing Recap U.S. stock futures are pointing to a weaker open on Monday as a sharp rally in the Japanese yen and a looming government shutdown weigh on sentiment. The yen surged to its strongest level since November after Japanese and U.S. officials signaled a readiness to intervene in currency markets, a move that has…
Closing Recap U.S. stocks rallied on Thursday, with the major indices recovering all of the prior session’s sharp losses after President Trump signaled a de-escalation in the trade standoff with Europe over Greenland. The S&P 500 jumped, and the Dow also gained, but the real star of the show was the small-cap Russell 2000, which…
Closing Recap U.S. stocks staged a powerful rebound on Wednesday, with the major indices surging higher after President Trump signaled a de-escalation in the trade standoff with Europe over Greenland. The S&P 500 jumped 1.16%, and the Dow gained 1.21%, erasing a significant portion of the previous day’s sharp losses. The rally was broad-based, with…
Closing Recap U.S. stocks suffered their worst day of the new year on Tuesday, with a broad and sustained sell-off driven by a perfect storm of geopolitical and macroeconomic fears. The S&P 500 plunged over 2%, and the Nasdaq fell nearly 2.4% as the market was hit by a double-barreled blast of bad news: escalating…
Closing Recap Global markets and U.S. futures are under significant pressure as U.S. traders return from a long weekend to digest President Donald Trump’s threat to impose escalating tariffs on the European Union and the United Kingdom over his push to acquire Greenland. The surprise move has ignited fears of a new transatlantic trade war,…
Closing Recap Global markets are on edge to start the new week after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose escalating tariffs on the European Union and the United Kingdom over his push to acquire Greenland. The surprise move has ignited fears of a new transatlantic trade war, sending U.S. stock futures tumbling and boosting…
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