Here are the top five things investors need to know to start day trading: 1. Climbing The Fed held off, an economic report was cooler than expected, and for the most part, markets rallied. Investors were upbeat after the Federal Reserve said it had made “modest further progress” toward its 2% inflation target, despite no … Read more
U.S. stocks traded mixed on Thursday, with the S&P 500 holding close to its record high as investors weighed the dual pull of cooling inflation and a Federal Reserve retreat on interest rate cuts. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell below the flat line as the benchmark hit 5,400 to close at a new all-time high. … Read more
Don’t be fooled. Stocks look uniformly stronger, until you check under the hood For a stock market that continues to hit all-time highs in the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite, market breadth – which measures the number of stocks that are rising and falling or the relative improvement (or deterioration) in a share wide … Read more