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4:20 p.m. ET: North American markets plunge, post biggest declines since March North American equity markets plunged Thursday, closing out the trading way with their biggest declines since March as concerns mount of a second wave of the COVID-19 virus outbreak despite the reopening of global economies. Markets were also weighed…

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street plummeted on Thursday as investors reacted to renewed fears of a pandemic resurgence and digested dour economic forecasts from the U.S. Federal Reserve. All three major U.S. stock indexes lost well over 5%, posting their worst one-day percentage drops since March 16, when markets…

After touching the 10,000-point milestone yesterday, the Nasdaq Composite set a new all-time intraday high this morning of 10,028.61, per Yahoo Finance. In more normal times this would be a fanfare moment, the culmination of a long rise in the tech-heavy index indicative of an industry’s rising power. Instead, it…

Reuters / John Gress Day traders have helped to drive stock-market euphoria to an 18-year high, raising the odds of a market downturn in the next year to over 70%, Citi strategists said last week. "These new participants have exploded arguably speculative buying which has goosed up the numbers of…

Wednesday June 10, 2020 3:03 am PDT by Tim HardwickApple shares climbed to an all-time high at the close of Nasdaq trading on Tuesday, rising $10.53, or 3.16 percent, and hitting $343.99 per share. Apple now has a market value of almost $1.491 trillion. Despite a bumpy start to the…

* MSCI AxJ index up 0.3%, Nikkei +0.1% * Currencies becalmed, yen at one-week high * Fed statement due 1800 GMT * Asian stock markets: tmsnrt.rs/2zpUAr4 By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE, June 10 (Reuters) - Asia’s stock markets edged up to a fresh three-month high on Wednesday, with the dollar again…

The Nasdaq Composite rallied to a record high on Tuesday, briefly breaking above 10,000 for the first time, as traders loaded up on major technology names while taking profits from stocks that benefit from the economy reopening.The tech-heavy Nasdaq rose 0.3 percent to finish the day at a record close,…

Market Extra Published: June 9, 2020 at 2:56 p.m. ET It took the Nasdaq Composite less than 50 years to touch the psychological milestone at 10,000 Getty Images The Nasdaq Composite Index may finish at an important milestone for the first time ever on Tuesday, underscoring the rebound in technology-related…

Technically speaking, the major U.S. benchmarks have taken flight to start June, rising amid distinctly bullish bigger-picture price action. In the process, the Nasdaq Composite has reached all-time highs — previously uncharted territory — as it approaches the marquee 10,000 mark. Before detailing the U.S. markets’ wider view, the S&P…

NewsWatch Published: June 9, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. ET MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE U.S. stock benchmarks pare early losses on Tuesday and the Nasdaq Composite notches an intraday record high, as fought to find reasons to push stocks to further records amid bullishness about the economy’s ability to rebound from the…