Stocks end at session highs after choppy day

Stocks ended higher on Thursday, snapping a two-session losing streak and recovering from steep intraday losses, with investors eagerly awaiting Friday's nonfarm-payrolls report for...

Stocks tumble with jobs report in view

Stock indexes tumbled on Wednesday, with the Dow industrials slammed the most since 4/15, as Wall Street fixated on the nonfarm-payrolls report coming in...

Wall Street hunkers down

We know what Big Ben in London is liable to do during the course of the day, but traders on Wall Street could not...

Stocks hit day’s highs as session end nears

Stocks turned decisively higher on Monday, bouncing back from last week's losses, on thinking the Fed would not be curbing monthly bond purchases anytime...

Stocks close sharply lower, cutting May gains

Stocks thudded lower Friday as Wall Street closed another month of gains with a whimper after mixed economic reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average...

Stocks rise; S&P 500 on track for 7th monthly rise

Stocks climbed Thursday, with the S&P 500 index on track for its longest monthly win streak since September 2009, as another report cast a...

Stocks fall as Fed moves pondered

Stocks fell sharply Wednesday, with Wall Street giving back much of the prior day's rally, as investors considered when the Federal Reserve would begin...

Dow hits record on positive economic reports

Stocks climbed on Tuesday, bouncing back from last week's losses after data showed consumer confidence rising in May and the real-estate market picking up...

Stocks halt four-week run of gains

Stocks ended slightly lower Friday--though blue-chips squeaked out a mild gain--and broke a four-week winning streak as anticipation of the end to the Fed's...

Stocks end modestly lower

Socks fell modestly on Thursday, but finished well off their lowest intraday levels after upbeat U.S. economic reports and gains for Hewlett-Packard countered worries...

Stocks close sharply lower on Fed comments

Stocks ended a choppy Wednesday session sharply lower after comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and minutes from the Fed's latest rate-setting meeting...

Stocks close higher on Fed comments

Stocks closed higher on Tuesday, with the Dow and S&P 500 hitting record highs, after comments from two Federal Reserve officials suggested that the...

Stocks finish lower after hitting early highs

Stocks finished slightly lower Monday after many reached new all-time highs early in the session, only to retreat near intraday lows soon after. The...

Stocks notch records, fourth week of gains

Stocks on Friday advanced to a fourth weekly gain, with both the Dow industrials and the S&P 500 rising to all-time records, after data...

Stocks halt record run on Fed talk

Stocks fell Thursday afternoon after Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams said Fed bond purchases could be cut if the economy...