The S&P 500 ended slightly higher on Friday ahead of this week's Fed monetary policy meeting.
All three major stock indices closed the session on a positive note, with the Nasdaq notching the biggest surge.
With a full week of earnings behind us, it’s time to take stock of the fourth-quarter reporting season so far. Overall, the news flow has been mixed, although tech earnings have grossly disappointed.
If a company offers up some good news the day ahead of an earnings announcement, it has to seem a bit fishy.
In other words, why not wait until the following day to alert investors of the planned announcement (earnings) and the other unknown news? Unless, of course, the company is anticipating a negative reaction to the earnings report.
The 2020 presidential election featured President Donald Trump running against Joe Biden. At that time, investors and analysts pointed to several sectors that could benefit from each respective president winning the election.
On CNBC’s "Halftime Report Final Trades," Anastasia Amoroso of JP Morgan Private Bank said VanEck Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ: SMH) is going to be a beneficiary of fallin
U.S. Council of Economic Advisers member Jared Bernstein highlighted the fact that President Joe Biden considers excessive buybacks by corporations as problematic.
The CNN Money Fear and Greed index showed further improvement in market sentiment among US investors.
US stocks closed higher on Thursday as investors assessed the latest corporate earnings and economic reports.
GDP data released Thursday showed the US economy grew at an annualized rate of 2.9% in the fourth quarter, up from market expectations for 2.8%.