Friday was not a fun day on Wall Street

Nobody can be sure what either the Fed or Congress are up to, and that makes for skittish stock trading. Suffice it to say...

What goes up must go down

After a Fed-fueled buying spree on Wednesday, prices floated back down to earth on Thursday, although you’d be hard pressed to decipher what was...

Broadcast stock inch forward

The Fed indicated that it would keep buying bonds, and that apparently led investors to continue buying stocks, but if they were spending on...

Wall Street likes what the Fed is dishing out

The Federal Reserve is planning only modest changes to its policies, and Wall Street approved, sending stocks in general and broadcast stocks in particular...

Stocks mostly rise after exit by Summers

Stocks mostly rose on Monday, with the S&P 500 Index gaining for a ninth session in 10, as Wall Street celebrated Larry Summers taking...

Stocks gain with Fed meeting in view

Stocks rose on Friday, with the Dow industrials posting their best week since January, as worries about Syria ebbed and as investors looked to...

Stocks end lower; S&P 500 snaps 7-session win

Stocks ended lower on Thursday, with the S&P 500 snapping its seven-session win streak. The Dow dropped 25.96 points, or 0.2%, to 15,300.64. The...

S&P extends longest win streak since July

Stocks tilted mostly higher on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 extending gains into a seventh consecutive session, as reduced worry about Syria countered Apple's...

Dow, S&P 500 near 4-week highs; Syria worries ebb

Stocks gained on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 continuing its longest winning stretch since mid-July, amid increased diplomacy on Syria and after economic data...

Stocks rise; S&P 500 up for a fifth session

Stocks climbed on Monday, with the S&P 500 extending its longest win streak since the middle of July, as Chinese exports beat projections and...

Stocks near unchanged, but higher for the week

Stocks on Friday ended little changed but higher for the week, with the Dow Jones halting its longest weekly loss streak since November, as...

Stocks extend longest climb since July

Stocks on Thursday ended higher for a third day, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average posting its longest winning streak since the middle of...

Stocks gain on increased ease with Fed policy

Stocks on Wednesday closed higher for a second session as investors anticipated votes on Capitol Hill on U.S. moves in Syria while tracking economic...

Stocks finish with limited gains

Stocks rose modestly on Tuesday after upbeat U.S. data followed positive global reports on manufacturing and as the White House lobbied Congress to approve...

Worst monthly hit for stocks since May 2012

Stocks fell Friday, with the Dow and the S&P 500 closing out their worst month since May 2012, as investors weighed potential U.S. military...