Tag: Dow Jones

Wall Street opens higher, helped by JPMorgan, oil

Thu Jan 14, 2016/Reuters U.S. stocks opened slightly higher on Thursday as oil prices rose and JPMorgan’s strong results boosted bank stocks. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 54.24 points, or 0.34 percent, at 16,205.65. The S&P 500 was up 6.09 points, or 0.32 percent, at 1,896.37 and the […]

Stocks Market News for May 31, 2013

Benchmarks suffered losses after investors booked profits and transferred investments from stocks into bonds. Meanwhile, a bunch of domestic results were reported on Friday, providing mixed signals to investors. The official Purchase Manager’s Index (PPMIQ) of the world’s second-largest economy, China, came in above market expectations while high unemployment and […]

Stock market has worst day this year; Dow off 129

The stock market is closing out its worst day so far this year, bringing the Dow average back below 14,000. The drop, which erased 129 points from the Dow Jones industrial average, came on the first trading day after the index closed above 14,000 for the first time since the […]