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U.S. stocks were slightly higher Wednesday as investors hoped to keep a five-day winning streak going in the wake of a preliminary U.S.-China trade deal and fading worries over the global economic outlook. The likely impeachment of President Trump by the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington later Wednesday held little risk for investors, analysts …

Is the stock market on the brink of breaking into an unmitigated run-up to fresh records? That is the question a number of market strategists are exploring as the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.46% …

Imagine there’s no trade deal and that the U.S.-China battle is left to rumble on through most of next year instead. That scenario is one that stock-market participants must now debate as equities tumbled Tuesday after President Donald Trump indicated he’s in no hurry to complete any accord with Beijing and that it might be …

Technically speaking, the major U.S. benchmarks have sustained a break to record territory amid still conspicuously muted November selling pressure. Against this backdrop, the big three benchmarks remain near-term extended — and are due a cooling-off period, if not a corrective pullback — though the more important longer-term market bias remains comfortably bullish. …

Text size Photograph by John MacDougall/AFP via Getty Images Hedge funds leaned into technology and industrial stocks in the third quarter, while moving away from consumer staples and real estate. Within 45 days of the end of each quarter, hedge funds must report their portfolio holdings to the Securities and Exchange Commission on a regulatory …

Ray Dalio, the founder of hedge-fund behemoth Bridgewater Associates, believes investors haven’t necessarily been investing on a firm footing and that’s a condition that will eventually have to be rectified. ‘They’re selling dreams they’re not selling earnings and they’re not even selling a path to earnings.’ Ray Dalio The …

The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed Monday to its first record since mid-July, the latest example of investors’ faith in the domestic economy powering U.S. stocks to fresh highs. Buoyed by optimism about a U.S.-China trade accord and last week’s upbeat figures on third-quarter economic growth and October hiring, the blue-chip index climbed 0.4% to …

Relief over well-received results from Apple and Facebook may not be enough to fuel another S&P 500 record on Thursday, as rumblings on the trade front are getting in the way. Those big tech names are an integral part of our call of the day from BlueBox Asset Management’s co-portfolio manager William De Gale who …

Wall Street is enjoying a record-setting rally for the S&P 500 index. But that shouldn’t come as a surprise to stock-market history buffs. From a statistical standpoint, Oct. 28 is the day that, on average, has produced the best gain for the S&P 500 over the past seven decades, said Ryan Detrick, senior market strategist …

Is three the magic number for Wall Street? We’ll soon find out. Only a few think that Jerome Powell & Co. will not cut interest rates next week for a third time in as many gatherings of the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee. Market-based probabilities imply a 93.5% chance of a quarter-of-a-percentage-point rate reduction to …