Tim Smith has 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, both as a writer and as a trader. The Dow Jones ...

Good news for those building up their 401(k)s: the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 closed at record highs after the ...

Wall Street romped to records as a delayed jubilation swept markets worldwide following the Federal Reserve’s big cut to ...

Up, up, up. That's the path of stocks on Thursday after the Federal Reserve took its first stab at bringing interest rates down, down, down. Here are where the major indexes stood with less than half ...

The Nasdaq composite closed today at 18,013.98. Compared to yesterday’s close, the benchmark index rose by 440.68 points, or ...

The S&P 500 ( ^GSPC) climbed roughly 1.7%, while the Dow rose more than 1.2%, with both indexes trading at record highs. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite ( ^IXIC) led the gains, up roughly 2.5%.

Dow Jones stocks jumped more than 400 points after the Fed cut rates by 50 basis points Wednesday. Nvidia soared past a key ...

Wall Street ripped gains on Thursday, with market participants taking confidence from the Fed's bumper half-point rate ...

Mortgage rates aren't tied to the Fed's moves on interest rates. Rather, mortgage rates typically fall in advance of a Fed rate cut, because investors are trying to anticipate where the central bank ...

The S&P 500 ( ^GSPC) climbed roughly 1.5%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^IXIC) rose more than 1% with both ...

Wall Street rallied on Thursday with the Dow and S&P 500 hitting another intraday record high — a day after the Federal Reserve kicked off its easing cycle with half-a-percentage point reduction and ...

Stocks jumped Thursday morning as investors cheered the Federal Reserve’s eye-popping half-point interest rate cut.