Stocks & Bonds: Shares Waver, Then End With Slight Gain
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Investors found solace in declining Treasury yields but remained subdued after a lackluster profit forecast by Best Buy and a drop in new-home construction.
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US stocks ended mixed today as only the tech-heavy Nasdaq managed to make gains in the face of higher crude oil prices and a rash of broker downgrades targeting some high-profile Dow shares.
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Wall Street fell slightly as investors tried to determine whether stocks, coming off their best week in four years, can continue to show signs of recovery.
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Stocks finished mixed in post-holiday trading Friday as Wall Street meandered through a shortened session. The major indexes ended the week higher as investors looked forward to the results of the first weekend of holiday shopping and a key jobs report next week.
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Wall Street ended mixed Friday, with gains led by the energy sector and losses led by financial shares.
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The Dow Jones industrial average and S&P 500 index rose slightly on Wednesday, helped by aircraft manufacturer Boeing Co. , but investors were mostly staying on the sidelines before the Federal Reserve's statement on interest rates.
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U.S. stocks rebounded this morning in early trading, then gave back some of their gains as prices fluctuated following a global sell-off yesterday that triggered a 3 percent drop in the Dow Jones industrial average.
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Stocks pared losses in late morning trading and the S&P 500 index briefly turned positive on Thursday as investors scoured the beaten-down market for cheap stocks.
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Stocks finished mixed in post-holiday trading Friday as Wall Street meandered through a lackluster day. The major indexes ended the week higher as investors looked forward to the results of the first weekend
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NEW YORK, Nov. 21 -- Wall Street drifted to a slightly higher finish Tuesday, as investors shied away from taking new positions in a week shortened by the Thanksgiving holiday. Despite the market's languid tone, Google surpassed $500 for the first time.
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U.S. stocks ended slightly higher on  Monday as optimism about fourth-quarter earnings  provided a  lift, but a late-day wave of program, or computerized, trading  wiped out earlier gains.
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British blue chips ended modestly higher after an up-and-down session, with Wall Street putting in a fairly volatile performance.
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U.S. Treasuries turned tail on  Wednesday as recent hefty gains attracted a wave of  profit-taking in an otherwise featureless market.
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Dow and S&amp;P close at records after surge; hedge funds may be rethinking their doubts.
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Leading shares ended a volatile session lower, but still above the key 6,000 level, as M&amp;A-fuelled gains in utilities and a bounce in Partygaming were offset by a weak Wall Street.
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Interest rate uncertainty sapped the dollar and yen on Tuesday but helped keep bonds buoyant, while stocks took a breather from multi-year highs.
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U.S. stocks ended the last day of 2004  slightly down on Friday, but the main U.S. indexes posted their  second successive year of gains following a fourth-quarter  rally.