Text size If you only looked at the headline indexes on Thursday, you would think that the market had done a good job of hanging in there, especially after a disappointing report on unemployment claims. However, a look at the actual stocks that make up the indices tells a very …
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Text size And so it begins. The Nasdaq Composite has been going up for so long now, it’s hard to remember if it feels like it’s going down. Now we know. Yes, that’s an exaggeration, but not much. He had been active for seven of the past nine trading days …
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Text size Raise your hand if you saw it coming? That’s the massive gain from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, of course. The Dow was up 580.25 points, or 2.3%, while the S&P 500 was up 1.5%, and the Nasdaq Composite finished 1.2%. The first gains were boosted by Boeing …
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Text size What were we worried about again? The stock market is certainly not falling, because it doesn’t seem to do so terribly often these days. After falling 710 points on Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 299.66 points, or 1.2%. while the S&P 500 gained 1.1% and the …
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