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?

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 ...

Investors seeking stable cash flow without much work can turn to income exchange-traded funds, or ETFs. These funds invest in companies with higher-than-average dividend yields and manage the ...

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 ...

Investing in ETFs like SCHD means accepting a mixed bag of stocks. Read what the ETF delivers and the items it may be lacking ...

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The stock was up 1.7% in Wednesday afternoon trading, recently changing hands at $208.82. Shares last notched a record finish ...

Wall Street lurched toward minor losses before the opening bell Wednesday as markets awaited the last batch of inflation data before the Federal Reserve meets next week, when most expect U.S. central ...

On Sept. 4, Verizon Communications announced that its shareholders would receive a dividend of $0.68 a share on Nov. 1. VZ has a dividend yield of 6.23%. Over the past five years, Verizon ...