Latest articles by David Dittman
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Rally Pauses for Hot Earnings, Cool Data: Stock Market Today
Markets were mostly mixed Tuesday after decisive moves Friday and Monday.
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Dow Rises 585 Points on Rate Cut Hope: Stock Market Today
Stocks moved more than 1% again Monday, this time to the upside following the Jobs Friday sell-off.
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Dow Dives 542 Points on Soft Jobs Data: Stock Market Today
The last day of a busy week ends with the first greater-than-1% move in either direction in more than a month.
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Stocks Slide on Fed Day: Stock Market Today
In another sign of changing times, JPMorgan has partnered with Coinbase to enable cryptocurrency purchases with credit cards.
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What CEOs Say About President Trump and Fed Chair Powell
Top opinion-shapers and decision-makers are expressing mixed views on the evolving conflict between the White House and the central bank.
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Stocks Rise After Trump-Powell Fed Tour: Stock Market Today
Nvidia hit a new all-time high intraday, but another renowned semiconductor name and some less iconic stocks were bigger movers Friday.
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Dow Bleeds Red Due to Big Blue: Stock Market Today
Six of the official GICS sectors were in the green, led by communications services, technology and energy stocks.
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Dow Jones Industrial Average Nears New Highs: Stock Market Today
The successor to the first stock market index is getting up there with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite in all-time-high territory.
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Trump 2.0's Performance So Far, According to the Stock Market
Six months after President Donald Trump's inauguration, take a look at how the stock market has performed.
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Can Trump Fire Powell?
"Can Trump fire Powell?" may not matter anymore as the White House uses its power to get what the president wants from the Fed: lower interest rates.
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Stock Market Today: Stocks Step Back From New Highs
Investors, traders and speculators continue the low-volume summer grind against now-familiar uncertainties.
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Stock Market Today: Markets Chop Up More Trump Threats
Stocks are grinding to new highs on light summer volume, and bitcoin is only getting bigger.
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Stock Market Today: Stocks Slip Ahead of Big Earnings, Inflation Week
Perhaps uncertainty about tariffs, inflation, interest rates and economic growth can only be answered with earnings.
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Stock Market Today: Solid Signals Lift Stocks Despite Tariff Noise
Markets are whistling over the White House in an ongoing display of corporate America's enduring ability to survive and advance.
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Stock Market Today: Trump's Copper Comments Cause a Stir
Markets remain resilient and monetary policy makers stand fast against a rising tide of new terms of trade, including around copper.
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Stock Market Today: Trump Reextends His Tariff Deadline
When it comes to this president, his trade war, the economy, financial markets and uncertainty, "known unknowns" are better than "unknown unknowns."
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Stock Market Today: President Trump Reboots the Tariff Trade
A broad consensus that markets hate uncertainty more than anything else is being tested on an almost daily basis in 2025.
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Stock Market Today: It's 'All Sectors Go' Ahead of Independence Day
The resilience trade continues to work, even for sectors and stocks with specific uncertainties.
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Stock Market Today: Another Quarter, More Mixed Price Action
"Up and to the right" remains the general trend despite persistent uncertainty around critical policy issues.
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Stock Market Today: A Historic Quarter Closes on High Notes
"All's well that ends well" is one way to describe the second quarter of 2025, at least from a pure price-action perspective.
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Stock Market Today: Stocks Struggle to Sustain Gains
Mixed messages from multiple sources continue to make for a messy market for investors, traders and speculators.
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Stock Market Today: Stocks Rise on a Little More Uncertainty
The best response to a major geopolitical event is often no response at all, especially if you're looking at the big picture.
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How to Invest in the Nuclear Revolution
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the American nuclear renaissance must launch during President Trump's administration, and it appears to be happening
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Stock Market Today: Stocks Grapple for Peace Trade Gains
Of course dramatic tension is high on Fed Day, only this time it's about war and peace as well as monetary policy.
