Despite the recent run of record highs for the stock market, investors remain nervous that at some point, the Federal Reserve and other central banks will take away the punch ...
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May 13 - News
Dividend stocks outperform non-dividend-paying stocks over the long run.
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May 13 - News
"At some point in the early 21st century, all of mankind was united in celebration.
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May 13 - News
I predicted that Clean Energy Fuels Corp (NASDAQ:CLNE) would close higher on the week.
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May 13 - News
Fredrik Idestam began building a wood-pulp mill to make paper on the banks of a Finnish river on May 12, 1865.
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May 12 - News
"Dogs of the Dow" refers to one of the simplest dividend strategies to beat the market.
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May 12 - News
Even though it was a relatively quiet week in terms of economic data pertaining to the U.S., all of the major indexes posted healthy gains.
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May 12 - News
Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow Jones Indices:.DJI) and broad-based S&P 500 hit all-time highs, surpassing the psychological 15,000 and 1,600 mark, respectively...
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May 12 - News
Since we're celebrating all the wonderful mothers out there today, I figured it was appropriate to look at a few stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) that...
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May 12 - News
On March 5, the Dow Jones Industrials set a new all-time record high for the first time in more than five years.
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May 11 - News
After a number of weeks in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose or fell more than 100 points multiple days in a row, this week has been very calm -- the largest move the...
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May 10 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down as cyclical companies weigh on the Dow. As of 1:15 p.m. EDT, the Dow was down 26 points to 15,056.
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May 10 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average isn't quite sure which direction it wants to go today.
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May 10 - News
"A policy row caused by the infusion of outside money into Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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May 10 - News
The Black-Scholes option-pricing model, first published in 1973 in a paper titled "The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities," was delivered in complete form for publication...
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May 10 - News
After several days of gains, stocks finally had an off day today, as all three major indexes were down.
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May 10 - News
The Dow Jones Industrials ended its run of record highs today, dropping 22 points.
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May 10 - News
After a slow start to the day, the record-setting Dow Jones Industrial Average hasn't been stopped from rising even higher, despite misgivings from wary investors over its year...
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May 9 - News
The wealth-building power of compound interest will never cease to amaze me.
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May 9 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) is basically flat after slightly better than expected unemployment claims data. AT&T Inc.
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May 9 - News
This morning, the weekly jobless claims report was posted, and for the second week in a row, the numbers of claims fell to a five-year low.
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May 9 - News
The first official recognition of Mother's Day occurred nearly a century ago, when on May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday in May would thereafter...
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May 9 - News
A brand-new all-time high from the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) may be making some investors start to doubt the markets.
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May 9 - News
Investors have been joking about how morning weakness in the stock market has tended to give way to gains by the time the markets close for the day, and so it's hard to take too...
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May 9 - News
In every bull market, there comes a time when nothing can seem to stop stocks from rising.
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May 9 - News
Blue-chip stocks are extending their gains today as the Dow Jones Industrial Average continues its ascent above the 15,000-point threshold.
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May 8 - News
Stocks are pushing up into record territory again, although today's gains are of the modest type a day after the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 15,000 for the first...
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May 8 - News
After opening lower and then immediately dropping further, the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (INDEXDJX:.DJI) has climbed its way back up to breakeven.
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May 8 - News
The largest war in human history finally – almost – drew to a close on May 8, 1945, with the formal and unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allied Powers.
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May 8 - News
After setting another record high yesterday, U.S.
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May 8 - News
The first full week of May is looking great for financial stocks, and a huge rally led by the news that Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) had finally settled its legal problems...
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May 7 - News
Stocks are back on the upswing today, and the markets are pushing up to new record highs once again.
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May 7 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up after the Australian Central Bank lowered interest rates in an effort to boost the nation's economy. Caterpillar Inc.
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May 7 - News
The stock market continues to linger at all-time record highs as both the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (INDEXDJX:.DJI) and the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) climbed modestly...
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May 7 - News
British radar engineer Geoffrey Dummer first made public the concept of integrated circuits on May 7, 1952.
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May 7 - News
Since the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow Jones Indices:.DJI) hit an all-time record high on Friday on the heels of a better-than-expected jobs report, there's no shortage of...
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May 7 - News
U.S. stocks achieved another record high yesterday, and they opened up again this morning, with the and the narrower, price-weighted up 0.3% each at 10:05 a.m. EDT.
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May 7 - News
The stock market had a good day today, even if the Dow Jones Industrials didn't participate.
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May 7 - News
Stocks were mostly flat today as the S&P 500 hit a new record high at 1617.50, but the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow Jones Indices:.DJI) was down slightly by five points, ...
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May 7 - News
More record-pacing market gains were made in 1932 than in any other year in Dow Jones Industrial Average history.
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May 6 - News
Blue-chip stocks are split this afternoon, with half headed higher for the day and the other half in the red.
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May 6 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow Jones Indices:.DJI) is basically unchanged today, up just four points as of 1:25 p.m. EDT. The S&P 500 is up 0.21%.
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May 6 - News
The wealth-building power of compound interest will never cease to amaze me.
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May 6 - News
Tomorrow, The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) will release its latest quarterly results.
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May 6 - News
In the aftermath of last week's big record run for the stock market, it's no surprise to see the bull-market rally take a brief pause.
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May 6 - News
It's no secret that investors have been craving high-yielding dividend stocks over the past five years.
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May 6 - News
Most of the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (INDEXDJX:.DJI) have reported their first-quarter earnings results.
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May 5 - News
Shares of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) rose 5.34% last week and now rest at $33.49, The last time investors saw prices this high was for a few months during late 2007 ...
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May 5 - News
I predicted that Sirius XM Radio Inc (NASDAQ:SIRI) would close higher on the week.
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May 5 - News
If last decade was the "lost decade," then this decade is certainly something of a rebirth for the markets, which have more than doubled off their recession lows.
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May 5 - News