A week removed from a brutal payroll report that triggered worry over a tapped consumer and a trapped Federal Reserve, the broad stock indexes are back at the cusp of all-time highs, market volatility has returned to year-to-date lows and some investors are calling off the August hurricane watch. The …
As investors say farewell to a week marked by a Federal Reserve meeting, surprise labor market data and the latest corporate earnings, they’re left trying to figure out what it all means for a stock market that’s still deciding where it wants to go. All three of the major market …
The major U.S. stock indexes closed higher for the week, with the S & P 500 and Nasdaq Composite breaking multiweek losing streaks. Earnings drove the action, despite some less-than-ideal macroeconomic reports on economic growth and inflation. Meta Platforms ‘ report gave the market a bit of a scare Wednesday …