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Both the S&P 500 and the Dow have been generally falling back from record highs set late last week. The market has been more cautious amid worries that stocks have become too expensive. Higher Treasury yields, which make stocks less…

The rise in yields helped knock down stocks that tend to get hurt by higher interest rates, such as big dividend payers and businesses in the housing industry. Real-estate stocks fell to the sharpest loss among the 11 sectors that make…

The stronger-than-expected hiring pushed Goldman Sachs economist David Mericle to say he now sees just a 15% chance of a recession, down from 20%.But Friday’s jobs report was so strong that it also forced traders to ratchet back…

Stocks sank as oil prices kept rising amid the world's wait to see how Israel will respond to Iran's missile attack from Tuesday. A barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, leaped 5% to settle at $77.62 after starting the week…

In the broadest and most coordinated effort so far, People’s Bank of China Gov. Pan Gongsheng said the reserve requirement for banks would be cut by 0.5 percentage points and that the central bank would follow up with further cuts. That…

NEW YORK — (AP) — U.S. stock indexes are hanging near their all-time highs in quiet trading on Monday.The S&P 500 was 0.1% higher in early trading, coming off its fifth winning week in the last six, and flitting around its record set…