The Dow Jones Industrial Average, also known as the Dow or DJIA, tracks 30 large, well-known companies that trade on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. The Dow kept hitting record highs in late 2024, reaching over 45,000 in December of that year.1 The Dow's surge was fuele...
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Enter the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), established in 1792. Though not the first on U.S. soil – that honor goes to the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PSE) – the NYSE rapidly grew to become the dominant stock exchange in the United States and eventually in the world. The NYSE occupied...
As rates rise, investors who have purchased dividend funds to boost their income may rotate out of high-yield stocks toward bonds or other assets, causing stock prices to fall. 10 high-yielding stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average Ticker symbolCompanyAnnual dividend*Dividend yield* VZ ...
Understanding the stock market is key for investors who want to buy and sell stocks. Our guide has the information you need about stock trading and the stock market.
If you were asked to name some of the biggest stock market winners of the past century, there’s a good chance Amazon would come to mind. After all, Amazon has gone from a small online bookseller to one of the world’s largest, most powerful companies. In 2020, the company’s market...
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index, or S&P 500, is perhaps the world’s most well-known stock index. The index contains about 500 of the largest publicly traded companies in the U.S., making it a bellwether for stocks. It includes stocks across all 11 sectors of the economy,as defined...
Kathy Jones and Collin Martin analyze the attractiveness of corporate bond yields, and Liz Ann Sonders interviews Kevin Gordon about sector performance.
The stock decline on Friday followed unsteady performance over roughly the past month. Until then, stocks had enjoyed strong gains this year. From the outset of 2024 through Thursday, the S&P 500 had climbed more than 15%. The Dow Jones Industrial Avera...
The stock market has been on quite a tear over the past couple of years, with each major market index hitting new heights in 2024. In fact, as recently as early December, the S&P 500 (^GSPC -0.56%), Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC -0.51%), and Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI -0.58%)...