Stocks jumped to record highs at the start of the final week of 2020 after President Donald Trump unexpectedly signed a $900 billion COVID-19 economic aid package. The Dow Jones rose 240 points higher, or 0.8%, to 30,440 points as of 11.30am EST. The benchmark briefly climbed to 30,525.56, its first intraday record in 10 days, before … Read more
Stocks jumped to record highs at the start of the final week of 2020 after President Donald Trump unexpectedly signed a $900 billion COVID-19 economic aid package. The Dow Jones rose 240 points higher, or 0.8%, to 30,440 points as of 11.30am EST. The benchmark briefly climbed to 30,525.56, its first intraday record in 10 days, before … Read more
The S&P 500 opened lower on Monday as investors paused ahead of crucial economic indicators later this week to take stock of what was set to be the benchmark index’s best November ever. Wall Street’s main indexes were set to finish the month up more than 10% as investors bet that progress in the development … Read more
Global rally fires Dow Jones to 30,000 for the first time as Footsie hits its highest level since June By Mark Shapland For The Daily Mail Published: 22:20 GMT, 24 November 2020 | Updated: 22:20 GMT, 24 November 2020 Stock markets around the globe shot higher as investors bet that a Covid vaccine would free … Read more
Dow slumps 100 points and Wall Street pulls back from post-election rally as job growth slows and Biden edges closer to the White House Main US stock indexes edged lower on Friday after a post-election surge Stocks had rallied at the prospect of a split government in Washington But latest jobs numbers showed a slowdown … Read more
Dow slumps 100 points and Wall Street pulls back from post-election rally as job growth slows and Biden edges closer to the White House Main US stock indexes edged lower on Friday after a post-election surge Stocks had rallied at the prospect of a split government in Washington But latest jobs numbers showed a slowdown … Read more
Stocks tumbled again Friday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing 157 points lower and posting its biggest weekly losses since March. Wall Street is closing out a punishing week with all three major indexes in the red, dragged down by a slide in shares of tech heavyweights following their quarterly results. The Dow had earlier … Read more
Shares tank after shock US rate cut: Dow falls 786 points as Trump urges Fed to do more and Carney vows help for UK firms By Hugo Duncan for the Daily Mail Published: 23:17 BST, 3 March 2020 | Updated: 13:08 BST, 4 March 2020 Shares on Wall Street tumbled last night after the first … Read more
Wall Street’s main indexes fell on Friday as the longest period of employment growth on record in the United States came to an abrupt end, with data showing that hundreds of thousands of people lost their jobs last month due to the coronavirus. The Labor Department’s report confirmed that a recession was underway as business … Read more