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Dow Jones industrials component Caterpillar (CAT) and fellow heavy machinery play United Rentals (URI) both jumped into early buy zones on Monday, breaking downward sloping trendlines. CAT and URI stock gained ground early Tuesday.…

Alibaba stock was up 3% in premarket trading Friday, helped by a strong earnings report. BABA stock broke out powerfully in September after China announced stimulus measures to help an economy that's been slow to recover. But Alibaba…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on Oct. 8, 2024.Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesStocks declined Thursday, with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average falling from records as…

Stocks bounced back Wednesday afternoon, boosted by tech shares.Earlier, a core inflation reading came in slightly higher than expected and dashed hopes for a larger rate cut.While the overall consumer price index came in lower than…

Wall Street and the Federal Reserve are starting to align.Although Fed Chair Jerome Powell said on Monday the central bank's next two moves would probably involve 25 basis-point cuts in interest rates, traders didn't really believe it.As…

Election 2024 is less than two weeks away, with former President Donald Trump and current Vice President Kamala Harris vying for the nation's top job. Both Trump and Harris are laying out their visions for the nation's future in…

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks drifted around their record heights Thursday following the latest signals that the U.S. economy continues to hum. The S&P 500 finished virtually unchanged after…

Argentina is one of the world’s serial defaulters, having failed to meet its international debt obligations nine times. This time, insists economy minister Luis Caputo, will be different.Mired in recession and short of dollars, the South…

Kenvue (KVUE) stock rallied sharply Monday on reports that activist investor Starboard Value established a substantial stake in the consumer products company, which was spun out of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) last year. The Wall Street…