Topic: Howard Silverblatt

U.S. stocks rallied this week to end trading Friday with the best month since 2020 after tech giants reported better than expected financial results.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell Tuesday, as three new companies will join the index next week and three others will leave as part of a shake-up led by Apple's decision to split its stock.

October proved to be a scary month for stocks due to a trade war between the United States and China, higher interest rates and concerns of slowing growth.

General Electric cut its dividend to one cent per share Tuesday as it moved to separate its power division into two units after reporting a net loss of $22.8 billion in the third quarter.

U.S. stock markets closed mixed Monday.

The Dow Jones industrial average, pushed by a positive U.S. employment report, topped 15,000 for the first time Friday.

U.S. technology giant Apple is closing in on the record valuation for a corporation, a market analyst said.

Six years of accumulated wealth in U.S. stock markets vanished in 2008 as a sustained bull market turned bearish and violent, records show.

The U.S. trade deficit will likely decrease this year, letting trade add to U.S. economic growth for the first time since 1995, a published report said Monday.

The world's developed equity markets turned positive in September as both interest rates and oil prices fell, U.S. analysts said Friday.