The stock market is a constellation of marketplaces where securities like stocks and bonds are bought and sold. Stock markets provide you with easy, transparent access to investment assets, and ...

The stock market has rallied in recent days, with the S&P 500 and Dow posting a six-day winning streak. The Dow on Tuesday closed higher by 300 points or 0.75%.

If you're taking a nervous peek at your 401(k) following the stock market's recent plunge, you're not alone. The index, which includes 500 of the leading publicly traded companies in the U.S ...

The first U.S. stock market was the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, which was founded in 1790. The New York Stock and Exchange Board, the precursor to the NYSE, was formally constituted in 1817.

Americans are wise to invest in the stock market, we are told, because stocks have yielded historical gains of about 10% a year. But not, perhaps, this year. Many analysts predict that the S&P 500 ...

I don’t want to go too far with this. The U.S. stock market isn’t nearly as expensive as it was at the height of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s and early 2000.

The stock market downswing was set off by a disappointing jobs report earlier this month. Employers hired 114,000 workers in July, falling well short of economist expectations of 185,000 jobs.

The stock market is clearly still reeling from President Donald Trump's tariff announcement, bouncing between red and green Monday morning and leaving some investors unsure of their next move.

This has been a big week for the stock market. The Dow Jones, the much broader S&P 500 and the NASDAQ all reached record highs with the Dow crossing the 40,000 threshold for the first time. The ...

The stock market is again in the green for 2025, having made up all of its April losses and then some. Technology stocks led that rally, and the entire market followed suit—except one sector.

Before August, the stock market had soared all year. The S&P 500 gained 21% through seven months as investors piled into equities and Wall Street pulled back its recession forecasts.