Stocks end mostly lower

Stocks ended mostly lower on Monday, with the S&P 500 index dropping 2.86 points, or 0.2%, to 1,406.29 and ending a five-session winning streak....

Stocks rally, posting strong weekly gains

Stocks ended higher on Friday and posted strong weekly gains, as encouraging economic reports from Germany and China buoyed the mood on Wall Street....

Stock indexes finish at two-week highs

Stocks on Wednesday climbed to two-week highs after a cease-fire deal was reported in the Gaza Strip, with the S&P 500 index and Nasdaq...

Dow down slightly for the day

Stocks on Tuesday closed nearly unchanged after a two-session rise as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke urged lawmakers to reach a budget agreement and end...

Stocks rally the most since early September

Stocks surged Monday as increased confidence that a U.S. budget deal would be reached helped lift Wall Street to its best session in more...

Stocks finish with daily gains, weekly losses

Stocks on Friday finished down on the week but up for the day after House Speaker John Boehner termed opening budget discussions at the...

Stocks finish lower on Sandy data, cliff woes

U.S. stocks pared losses in the final hour of trading but finished lower Thursday, pressured by economic data following superstorm Sandy and the looming...

Stocks close at more than four-month lows

Stocks were slammed Wednesday on worries about efforts to avert more than $600 billion in automatic spending cuts and tax hikes slated to start...

Stocks finish lower on fiscal cliff concerns

Fiscal cliff concerns outweighed strength in the consumer discretionary sector late Tuesday to drive U.S. stocks lower by the close. The Dow Jones Industrial...

Dow edges higher; broadcast stocks down

Markets had a sleep start to the week Monday, with stocks gaining just a hair — after a massive drop last week — on...

Dow, S&P both drop more than 2% for the week

Stocks finished higher on Friday, as data showing a rise in consumer sentiment appeared to eclipse anxiety about how Congress and the White House...

Stocks end sharply lower for second session

It's another slap-down day: Stocks on Thursday piled on losses for a second day, on worries about Europe's troubles and coming tax hikes and...

Stocks slammed on fiscal-cliff fears

Stocks dived on Wednesday — the worst day of the year for the Dow Jones Industrial Average — as anxiety about the “fiscal cliff”...

Stocks end sharply higher on Election Day

Stocks rallied on Election Day, as Wall Street embraced the notion Tuesday that the uncertainty that came with the presidential campaign soon would be...

Stocks end higher ahead of election

Stocks ended with modest gains on Monday, with investors reluctant to make major moves ahead of the presidential election. The Dow Jones Industrial Average...