The blue-chip Dow was on pace to ink a milestone, a day after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates in a big way. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 1.3%, at last check, trading near 42,030.

Do rate cuts with the stock market at or near all-time highs provide bulls additional fuel or do they portend trouble ahead?

Stocks like Visa are often referred to as dividend growth stocks because they combine earnings growth with market-beating ...

Investors are looking to retail sales data for clues to consumer health, the last piece of data that could factor into the ...

History suggests neither. Consider the period from September 1929 through February 1964, which is plotted in the chart below. This stretch holds the record for the longest period when the Dow ...

U.S. stock indexes are drifting near their records as Wall Street gears up for the most anticipated meeting of the Federal ...

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History offers some guidance: the reason the Fed is cutting interest rates matters far more for markets than the simple fact that borrowing costs are coming down. A chart from Vickie Chang, a macro ...

The stock market anticipates a 50 basis points rate cut by the Federal Reserve. Read why one should expect a strong stock ...

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