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By Jon D. Markman On May 2, 201906:28 AM Eastern
Stocks posted modest declines on Wednesday in the wake of the latest Federal Reserve monetary policy announcement; they held near the unchanged line for much of the day before back-flipping into...
By Jon D. Markman On May 1, 201902:10 PM Eastern
Stocks are edging higher Wednesday after the release of new data showing strong private-sector hiring in April and a handful of upbeat earnings reports.
Through 1 p.m. ET, the Dow was up 9...
By Mike Larson On May 1, 201908:00 AM Eastern
I can still remember my parents taking me down the street to the Community Savings branch to open my first passbook savings account. Man, did I love that little book and its green-tinted pages!
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By Jon D. Markman On May 1, 201906:28 AM Eastern
Stocks finished largely lower on Tuesday after Alphabet (GOOG) dampened spirits by reporting that pricing on its digital ads came under pressure.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500...
By Jon D. Markman On April 30, 201902:45 PM Eastern
A plunge in shares of Alphabet (GOOGL) is tethering the S&P 500 to the unchanged line Tuesday after the internet giant reported its slowest revenue growth in years, igniting a light retreat from...
By Sean Brodrick On April 30, 201911:25 AM Eastern
Gold tried to rally this morning, but was beaten back with a hammer. The markets seem mixed after Google parent Alphabet (Nasdaq: GOOGL) missed earnings and said sales growth is slowing. Never...
By Jon D. Markman On April 30, 201906:28 AM Eastern
Stocks strode modestly higher this Monday after data showed that the U.S. economy was on solid footing in the first three months of 2019.
By the close, the Dow Jones Industrials were up 11...
By Jon D. Markman On April 29, 201902:15 PM Eastern
Stocks strode higher Monday after data showed that the U.S. economy was on solid footing in the first three months of the year.
Through 2 p.m. ET, the Dow Industrials were up 0.1%, the S&P 500...
By Sean Brodrick On April 29, 201911:48 AM Eastern
While I was in Toronto at the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference, I sat down for a brief chat with Alan Brochstein. He's known as the "Cannabis Capitalist," a former analyst turned fund manager,...
By Jon D. Markman On April 26, 201903:48 PM Eastern
Stocks are swinging around the unchanged line again Friday with a modest positive bias after new data showed the U.S. economy grew at a solid rate in the first quarter, but the pace of consumer...