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Short and sweet: That was this week’s stock market in a nutshell. The second half of the year kicked off in record style, with both the S & P 500 and the Nasdaq closing at multiple all-time highs, including in Thursday’s holiday-shortened session. The U.S. stock market is closed on Friday for the Fourth of…
1. The S & P 500 was on track for another record-high close in Thursday’s shortened trading session. The government’s June jobs report was strong, with better-than-expected nonfarm payroll growth and a lower-than-expected unemployment rate. Jim Cramer said that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s wait-and-see approach to interest rates was proven correct again. Even if…
For investors, good news is good news again. US stocks rallied on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average gaining more than 300 points and the S&P 500 clinching another record high. The jump followed a strong June jobs report, which showed that the US added more jobs than economists originally expected last month, while…
This week’s sell-off in UK gilts, sparked by a tearful Rachel Reeves in the House of Commons, showed how fragile investor confidence is in Britain’s precarious fiscal position. The merest suggestion that the chancellor may leave her job, caused by Sir Keir Starmer’s initial failure to fully back her on Wednesday, was enough to spook…
New York CNN — Stocks, bond yields and the dollar gained on Thursday after a strong jobs report soothed nerves about how the economy is faring during the early stages of President Donald Trump’s tariff campaign. After a shortened trading day in advance of Friday’s July Fourth holiday, the Dow closed higher by 344 points,…
Shares of Nike and other apparel makers rose on Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had struck a trade deal with Vietnam that would impose a lower than initially expected tariff rate on many imports from the Southeast Asian country. Source link
Job growth proved better than expected in June, boosted by government hiring, as the labor market showed surprising resilience and likely took a July interest rate cut off the table. Nonfarm payrolls increased a seasonally adjusted 147,000 for the month, higher than the estimate for 110,000 and just above the upwardly revised 144,000 in May,…
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are climbing further into record heights on Thursday after a report showed the U.S. job market looks stronger than Wall Street expected. The S&P 500 was up 0.8% in midday trading and on track to set an all-time high for the fourth time in five days. The Dow Jones…
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Independence Day is almost here, and as you stock up on supplies or run errands, it is good to know what will be open, including the extended four-day weekend granted to state workers in Florida. In a June 23 news release, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that state offices will be closed on Thursday, July 3,…