The Dow Jones Industrial Average has advanced 5.8% in 2020, to 30,179, after gaining 0.4% this past week. The S&P 500 is up 15% this year, to 3709, after rising 1.3% for the week......
Stocks opened the week down, then the S&P 500 hit its 30th high for the year. The U.S. dollar continued to weaken, as the market looked beyond a vaccine-driven global recovery......
All four major U.S. stock indexes rose to record highs on Friday, the first time that’s happened since November 2018.....
It was another good week for stocks with the S&P 500 on its way to close to an all-time high while the S&P/TSX is only 3% away from its pre-pandemic peak of 17,944 reached on February 20......
A new week, new vaccine hopes, and new highs in Covid-19 cases. The Dow neared 30,000, then fell back on rising jobless claims, squabbling over relief, and uglier Covid numbers......
The possibility that the first viable vaccine could be available by the end of the year and widely distributed by mid-2021 brought hope that the promised land of normalcy might be near......
Equities surged on the back of reduced election uncertainty and embraced the unknown......
After a week mired in disappointing tech earnings and a slump on oil prices amid virus lockdowns across the worlds, the North American equity markets ended the month with its worst drop since the pandemic-ridden rout in March.....
The market was whipsawed by the back-and-forth negotiations over stimulus. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.9%, to 28,335.57, the S&P 500 index declined 0.5%, to 3465.39, and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.1% to 11,548.28......
The Nasdaq Composite gained 0.8%, to 11,671.56, this past week, while the S&P 500 index rose 0.2%, to 3483.81, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 0.1%, to 28,606.31......