President Donald Trump is expected to address the nation from the White House on Wednesday night to lay out his priorities as ...

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For a stock that has crushed the market historically, it's hard for investors to see Amazon's shares perform poorly.

Investors will be closely watching the Federal Reserve's so-called dot-plot forecast after the central bank's policy meeting concludes on Wednesday, according to James St. Aubin, chief investment ...

In this episode of Market Watch, host Frank Fagbo is joined by analysts Muktar Mohammed and Idika Aja to examine ...

The stock market’s nearly relentless rally has left some short-term traders exhilarated but wary — and muttering the “m” word. M, of course, is for “melt-up.” The S&P 500 SPX is trading around 10% ...

It’s looking like the U.S. could end up with a partial government shutdown starting at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time Wednesday. Because there hasn’t been a shutdown since 2019, MarketWatch has put together ...

With the market widely expecting the Federal Reserve will decide Wednesday to keep interest rates steady, investors will be looking for hints in the central bank’s messaging about what could move it ...

Stocks tend to do well in the final trading days of the year. This phenomenon is so common it even has a name — the "Santa Claus rally." Paul Stanley, the chief investment officer of Granite Bay ...

Everyone knows that cutting interest rates is good for the stock market. Or maybe not. As Humphrey Neill, the father of contrarian analysis, liked to say: “When everyone thinks alike, everyone is ...

Investors have typically greeted news of past government shutdowns with a shrug. But there is at least one important difference this time around that could warrant a bigger reaction. A memo from the ...