Equity Markets

Stock-market investors crowded the exits on Thursday, sending major stock indexes sharply lower a day ahead of another eagerly anticipated consumer-price index reading. Recent history may offer a clue. “While…

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Shares of ProFrac Holding Corp. powered to a fresh high Tuesday, after Wall Street gave the fracking services company a unanimously bullish endorsement, a little less than a month after a relatively disappointing…

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Microsoft Corp. isn’t the only U.S. company pointing to the dollar’s surge as a potential problem. A strong dollar has been a hot topic this week since the software giant MSFT, -1.66% and…

Stocks rose Thursday, with all three major U.S. indexes in the green, putting the S&P 500 on track to finish the week in positive territory. The benchmark S&P 500 gained around 1.8% in 4 p.m. trading, while the tech-focused…

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Investors took a breather this week as U.S. stocks bounced back from a weeks long selloff and the latest reading on inflation offered glimmers of optimism to those hoping for a peak in price pressures. Beneath the surface though, strong…

A little pre-summer cheer finally filtered its way into the stock market the week before Memorial Day, but it will likely take more than the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s first winning week since late March to…

The S&P 500 rose Friday, on track to extend a recent stretch of gains and snap a seven-week losing streak. The broad-market benchmark was up 1.9% as of Friday afternoon. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 367 points, or about 1%,…