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US stocks fell for a third straight session Wednesday as oil topping $100 a barrel and a sharp jump in Treasury yields gave investors plenty to worry about. The Dow dropped roughly 0.8%, the S&P 500 slipped 0.5%, and the Nasdaq fell 0.6%, with inflation anxiety front and center as ea...

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Stocks kicked off the week in the red Tuesday as a combination of trade war escalation, rising oil prices, and inflation anxiety weighed on all three major indices. The Dow dropped 1.1%, the S&P 500 slipped 0.5%, and the Nasdaq fell 0.3%, with some semiconductor strength limiting the...

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Stocks pulled back Friday as a blowout August jobs report flipped the rate narrative on its head. The economy added 162,000 jobs last month — nearly triple the 55,000 economists expected — while June and July payrolls were revised up a combined 55,000 and the unemployment rate held a...

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Stocks surged Thursday as Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller signaled he was open to keeping rates steady if inflation continued cooling, describing promising signs of "disinflation" that sent bond traders scrambling to cut their rate-hike bets. The odds of a September Fed h...

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Stocks snapped a two-day losing streak on Wednesday as oil prices stalled their rally and a key Fed official eased fears of an imminent rate hike. The Dow rose 0.6%, the S&P 500 gained roughly 0.4%, and the Nasdaq climbed about 0.4%, with all three major averages recovering from earl...

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Stocks stumbled into September on Tuesday as fresh US airstrikes on Iran sent oil prices surging, bond yields climbed to multi-year highs, and anxious investors hit the sidelines. The Dow fell 0.8%, the S&P 500 dropped roughly 0.7%, and the Nasdaq slid more than 1% — a rough start to...

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US stocks pulled back on Monday as the US struck Iranian rocket launchers in the Strait of Hormuz region, reigniting fears of a broader Middle East conflict and sending oil prices sharply higher. Brent crude futures climbed above $88 per barrel on worries the conflict could escalate ...

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US stocks finished Friday in the red as investors reacted to Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's keynote at the Jackson Hole Symposium, which markets interpreted as mildly hawkish. The S&P 500 slid nearly 0.3% and the Nasdaq dropped 0.5% after briefly gaining as much as 0.5% earlier in the sessi...

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US stocks climbed Thursday as blowout earnings from Nvidia, Salesforce, and CrowdStrike fired up the tech trade ahead of the Fed's Jackson Hole symposium. The Nasdaq led the charge with a 1.5% gain, while the S&P 500 added 0.7% and the Dow rose 0.2%, building on the prior session's m...

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US stocks traded mixed Wednesday as investors digested a fresh PCE inflation reading and held their breath ahead of Nvidia's earnings after the bell. The Dow slipped 0.2% while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both drifted just below the flat line, giving back some of Tuesday's broad gains. Co...

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US stocks pushed higher Tuesday as investors largely shrugged off an escalating trade fight with Canada, even after Canada's Finance Department announced retaliatory tariffs in response to the 50% duties the Trump administration slapped on over the weekend. The Dow and S&P 500 each g...

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US stocks closed mixed on Monday as tech and semiconductor names dragged the S&P 500 down about 0.3% and the Nasdaq roughly 0.8%, while the Dow managed a 0.3% gain to stand as the only major index in the green. The semiconductor sector took the hardest hit after a weekend report reve...