Stocks kicked off Wednesday's session higher, extending the week's broad rally. The S&P 500 was on pace to set another record high, up 0.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.1% or 600 points, also on track for a fresh record.
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8.30am: ADP jobs softens US private-sector hiring slowed to 44,000 jobs in July from 98,000 in June, missing the 65,000 forecast and pointing to cooling labour demand. The softer reading could give the Federal Reserve more scope to cut rates, weighing on Treasury yields and the dollar...
Wall Street analysts reshuffled their ratings on Wednesday, sending some familiar names higher while punishing others with sharp target cuts. Find out which stocks got surprise upgrades and which ones analysts are now walking away from.
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In its most recent quarter, Microsoft Cloud's revenue was $59.3 billion, up 27% year over year,
If "Sell in May and Go Away" isn't already a dead notion, this early trading week is killing it.
Compass stock was rising in after-hours trading after the company reported earnings and issued guidance that exceeded consensus estimates. Compass’s ongoing integration of the Anywhere brokerage business and partnership with Redfin helped. Compass reported basic earnings of twelve cents a share, or eleven cents a share diluted, on $4.3 billion in revenue in its second quarter, the real estate brokerage said in a Tuesday announcement.
U.S. stocks surged and oil fell sharply after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. could reach a deal with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz “today or tomorrow.”
Stocks notched new record highs on Tuesday as oil prices dipped and companies reported healthy profits.
Wall Street saw a record-setting session on Tuesday thanks to a reignited tech stock rally. The S&P 500 gained 1.8%, breaking out to a fresh closing high, its first record in over two months. Tech stocks led the rally, sending the Nasdaq up 2.6%.
Take your pick between the prospect of a U.S.-Iran peace deal, strong earnings, and a reignited AI trade as reasons the market is on the rise. The Nasdaq Composite was up 2.6%. The Trump administration has been vocal about talks it says are ongoing with Iran.
US stocks surged Tuesday, putting the S&P 500 on track for its first record high since June.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.7%, or 906 points. The Nasdaq Composite gained 2% as the tech rally raged on. Both indexes are on pace for their best four-day stretches in more than a year, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened Tuesday's trading session on pace to set fresh record highs. All three major indexes opened higher. The Dow was up 1.2%, or 641 points. The S&P 500 rose 0.
Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rallies Tuesday as Caterpillar and Palantir surge on earnings. SpaceX earnings are due late.
Wall Street futures were given a new boost ahead of another packed earnings session, helped by a renewed fall in oil prices as hopes of a deal with Iran resurfaced. Dow Jones futures were up 453 points, or 0.9%, while those for the Nasdaq gained 0.9%. S&P 500 futures were 0.2% higher,...

<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks kicked off August with a rally on Monday, as the Dow added about one-and-a-third percent to close at a record high, the S&P 500 climbed one-and-a-half percent and the Nasdaq added more than two percent.</p><p>Communication services was the best performing of the 11 major S&P sectors, boosted by a 6% jump for Meta and a nearly 5% gain by Alphabet.</p><p>Jed Ellerbroek is portfolio manager at Argent Capital Management.</p><p>“Obviously, an extension from last week, in terms of the big cloud computing giants, doing well after their earnings report. And then I think we're also starting to see some semiconductor and AI data center CapEx beneficiary flow through and do well too. Nvidia, for example, is up I think a little more than 3% today. So, I guess a broad tech rally. And I think investors are becoming increasingly convinced that the return on investment from all of the CapEx spending that the big tech companies are doing has got an appealing ROI to it - both now and I think in the future, too. And so that's why we've seen those stocks rally so much here in the last three or four trading days. And that’s really an amazing contrast to just the week before.”'</p><p>:: Amazon</p><p>Sticking with tech, shares of Amazon gained about four-and-a-half percent as the company's market cap surpassed $3 trillion for the first time after its earnings results last week.</p><p>And shares of SpaceX, which will report its first quarterly results on Tuesday, jumped more than five-and-half percent. The stock has been trading below its $135 issue price for nearly three weeks after its debut in mid-June.</p><p>Meanwhile, crude prices settled down about 5% after President Donald Trump said on Sunday that talks with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz would take place on Monday, though Iran disputed that talks were planned.</p><p>Lower oil prices helped push the S&P 500 Energy sector down more than one percent, making it the worst performing sector of Monday's session.</p></body>
Cardinal Health (CAH) closed the most recent trading day at $235.6, moving +2.42% from the previous trading session.
In the latest trading session, Nvidia (NVDA) closed at $206.64, marking a +2.93% move from the previous day.