Despite the US holiday, the dollar dominated trading on Monday as it headed for a fourth day of declines, weakening against almost every major currency.
The euro’s jump weighed on European stocks, while gold gained.
Bloomberg’s dollar index approached its lowest level in three years, helping push the euro up to...
2017 turned out to be a pretty good year for pharma and biotech stocks with the Nasdaq Biotechnology index and the NYSE ARCA Pharmaceutical index gaining 18.7% and 11.8%, respectively. Although the industry continued to face headwinds in the form of drug pricing scrutiny, pricing pressure, increasing competition, concerns...
Japan, Hong Kong, South Korean equity markets all higher
Dollar back in focus after its fifth straight weekly decline
Asian stocks built on the strong start to this year and headed for a fresh record high amid optimism in global growth. The yen advanced as traders continued to pile...
The Dow Jones industrial average hit the 25,000 mark for the first time Jan. 4, and I confess it made me giddy. The feeling lasted about 15 minutes until my head cleared and I said to myself, "Sooner or later, this bull market will pass."
But when will it pass?...
Investors in these fast-growing businesses look poised for prosperity.
The raging bull market has already caused many growth stocks to soar, but that doesn't necessarily mean the good times are ending anytime soon. With that in mind, we asked a team of investors to highlight a growth stock that they...
These three small biotech stocks saw huge jumps. Can their momentum continue?
Sometimes it helps to put things in perspective. The stock market turned in one of its strongest performances in the last several years in 2017. The S&P 500 gained over 19% last year, while the Dow Jones jumped...
It only took three years for shareholders to earn a return of more than 100% with these stocks.
If you invested $100 in a broadly diversified index fund that tracked the S&P 500 in early 2015, you'd have $136 today, not counting the dividends you collected. Many individual stocks performed...
The Dow Jones industrial average hit the 25,000 mark for the first time this month, and I confess it made me giddy. The feeling lasted about 15 minutes until my head cleared and I said to myself, “Sooner or later, this bull market will pass.”
But when will it pass?...
As the stock market climbed to record heights for a second straight year, more Wisconsin stocks went up than down in 2017.
But no percentage increase was anywhere near as big as that of Exact Sciences Corp.
Shares of the Madison company — whose Cologuard home test kit screens for colorectal...
Bitcoin is known for its wild price swings, but there's one sector of the stock market that is even crazier, according to Don Ross, the chief executive officer of PDQ Enterprises.
Ross told Business Insider trading in US small caps can be even more volatile than bitcoin. He...
