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The S&P 500 (^GSPC) chugged to a record high last week as new inflation data signaled good news about the Federal Reserve's rate cut plans. For the week, the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) rose more ...
US stocks open little changed but near record highs. Investors wait for more tariff talk from Trump and interest rate clues from Fed minutes out Wed. ... the broad S&P 500 index edged up 0.097% ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 498 points, or 1.2%, and the Nasdaq composite gained 1%. Superstar stock Nvidia and other Big Tech companies led the market, which got a lift after a report ...
Stock market indices may be categorized by their index weight methodology, or the rules on how stocks are allocated in the index, independent of its stock coverage. For example, the S&P 500 and the S&P 500 Equal Weight each cover the same group of stocks, but the S&P 500 is weighted by market capitalization, while the S&P 500 Equal Weight places equal weight on each constituent.
In 1999, shares of Qualcomm rose in value by 2,619%, 12 other large-cap stocks each rose over 1,000% in value, and seven additional large-cap stocks each rose over 900% in value. Even though the Nasdaq Composite rose 85.6% and the S&P 500 Index rose 19.5% in 1999, more stocks fell in value than rose in value as investors sold stocks in slower ...
DJIA monthly trading volume in shares from 1929 to 2012. In 1884, Charles Dow composed his first stock average, which contained nine railroads and two industrial companies that appeared in the Customer's Afternoon Letter, a daily two-page financial news bulletin which was the precursor to The Wall Street Journal.
Calm returned to Wall Street Tuesday, and tech stocks led U.S. indexes higher following a strong profit report from Palantir Technologies, a darling benefiting from the artificial-intelligence ...
By October 18, 2013, with GOOG passing $1,000 per share for the first time, the index had made a closing high of 3,353.88 and intraday high of 3,355.63, its highest levels since the 2000 United States elections and more than triple the 2008 low.