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@IAPolls2022 BREAKING: Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 500 points, or 1.65%. The S&P 500 lost 2.2%, while the Nasdaq Composite slid 3.1%. NASDAQ Return 626 Days in office 🟢 PRESIDENT TRUMP: +40.2% 🔴 PRESIDENT BIDEN: -18.63%

Stocks plunged Thursday — with the Dow plunging more than 1,100 points — wiping out the gains from the previous session’s massive rally. In midday trading, the Dow Jones industrial average had slumped 3.3 percent. The S&P 500 index sank 165 points, or 3.8 percent, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq was the biggest loser, giving back 651 points, or 5 percent.

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U.S. stock benchmarks on Thursday booked their worst selloff in weeks as a steady rise in government debt upended the market's bullish posture. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.75% fell by about 560 points, or 1.8%, to 31,402, to mark its worst day since Jan. 29. the S&P 500 index SPX, -2.45% closed 2.4% lower at 3,831, while the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -3.52%, the most sensitive to rising yields, ended the session down 3.5% to 13,119

Stock futures jumped Wednesday after drug developer Moderna said its coronavirus vaccine produced antibodies in all patients in an early trial, raising hopes for a faster economic recovery. Moderna's potential vaccine to prevent Covid-19 produced a "robust" immune response, or neutralizing antibodies, in all 45 patients in its early stage human trial, according to newly released data published Tuesday evening in the peer-reviewed New England Journal of Medicine. Shares of Moderna surged 15% in premarket trading. Stocks directly tied to an economic reopening jumped following the vaccine news. American Airlines, United Airlines, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines all popped more than 7% each...

U.S. stocks finished sharply higher Monday, with the Nasdaq scoring a record close, as Wall Street followed surging Chinese equity benchmarks to their best levels in at least two years. Monday’s upbeat market action contrasted with a further spike in U.S. coronavirus cases and a resurgence of business restrictions by state and local authorities struggling to contain the viral outbreak. U.S. stocks ended up sharply Monday, led by shares of financial companies and record-setting technology shares as Wall Street followed Chinese equity markets higher. But Monday’s gains also came with growing doubts about the ability of the U.S. to contain...

U.S. stock-index futures added to gains on Thursday after a closely followed report on the health of the labor market showed that the U.S. added 4.76 million jobs in June and the unemployment fell to 11.1% from 13.3% in May, suggesting that the employment picture is improving after a stunning collapse due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Economists polled by MarketWatch had predicted 3.7 million jobs were created or restored in June, with some estimates ranging as high as 8 million.

Stocks fell sharply on Wednesday as traders grew worried about the increasing number of newly confirmed coronavirus cases, which raised concern about the economic reopening and recovery. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 727 points, or 2.8%. The S&P 500 traded 2.8% lower while the Nasdaq Composite slid 2.6%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was headed for its first daily decline in nine sessions. The major averages hit their lows of the day after Florida said its confirmed cases jumped by 5,508 on Tuesday, a record, and now total 109,014. The state also said its positivity rate rose to 15.91% from 10.82%....

London (CNN Business)The stocks mega-rally hit a roadblock: A somber economic outlook from the US Federal Reserve and the 2 millionth coronavirus case in the United States has investors questioning whether they had boosted the stock market too far, too fast. p.US stocks plummeted in New York, with the Dow (INDU) falling some 1,700 points at its low point. The index was down 1,675 points, or 6.2% with one hour left in the trading day. The S&P 500 (SPX) plummeted 5.5%, and the Nasdaq Composite (COMP) fell 4.8%. The Nasdaq had soared to all-time highs on each of the past...

New coronavirus cases still rising in more than 20 U.S. states U.S. stocks swooned Thursday as coronavirus cases continued to rise and investors digested Wednesday’s downbeat economic outlook from the Federal Reserve. The market moves came even as the number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time continued to decline in the most recent week.

The stock market rallied once again on Monday, pushing the S&P 500 into the green for the year as the benchmark completed its wild round trip amid the coronavirus pandemic. Investors are growing more and more optimistic about a speedy economic recovery as states continue to reopen. Stocks finished the day at their session highs with the S&P 500 jumping 1.2%, or 38.46 points, to 3,232.39. The equity benchmark turned positive for the year in the final moments of Monday and has now bounced more than 47% off its March low. At one point this year, the S&P 500 was...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 527 points, or 2.05 percent. The S&P 500 moved up 1.36 percent, its fourth day of gains. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 0.78 percent, climbing within two percent of the all-time high hit in February. All 11 sectors of the S&P were up. Industrials and financials were the best performing sector, rising by 3.91 percent and 3.83 percent respectively.

U.S. stock futures rose in early trading on Wednesday as markets continued to rally on optimism over economies emerging from coronavirus-led shutdowns. The S&P 500 is up 1% so far in June, bringing its gain from its pandemic low in March to more than 40%. 

DOW futures down -305 at the time this was posted.

U.S. stock index futures rose on Thursday after China announced it will halve tariffs on U.S. imports totaling about $75 billion. China’s finance ministry said the tariff cut was timed in conjunction with a U.S. decision last month to halve tariffs on roughly $120 billion worth of Chinese products. Tariffs on some U.S. goods will be cut from 10% to 5%, and from 5% to 2.5% on others, which will take effect on Feb. 14. That decision was made as part of a broader “phase one” trade deal between China and the U.S. The agreement put the U.S.-China trade war,...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly surpassed 29,000 on Friday for the first time, setting a new record. The index hit the record earlier in the session following a moderate December jobs report, which found 145,000 new jobs created in 2019 and the unemployment rate staying unchanged at 3.5 percent, the lowest level in nearly 50 years. The Dow then retreated and was down slightly as of late morning. President Trump has frequently touted strong stocks as a sign of a booming economy, which he has made a central theme in his case for reelection. He has also cited the...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 29,000 for the first time in its history Friday morning, despite new data showing sluggish jobs growth. The blue-chip index hit an intra-day high of 29,009.07 shortly after 10 a.m., marking a nearly 0.2 percent increase from Thursday’s close of 28,956.90. The milestone came despite Friday’s monthly jobs report showing slowing employment growth, with the US economy adding 145,000 gigs in December. That’s down from November’s revised total of 256,000.

Stocks rose slightly on Monday, recovering losses from earlier in the session as oil dipped despite rising geopolitical worries following last week’s U.S. killing of Iran’s top general. Monday’s marginal gains were in contrast to Friday’s sharp decline. The Dow and S&P 500 had their worst trading day in a month on Friday, the morning after President Donald Trump approved a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad that killed top Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani. “If you were looking for a reason to sell, you got one,” said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at National Securities. “But the fundamental backdrop hasn’t changed in...