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Wall Street's main stock indexes rose on Wednesday, with strong support from the healthcare sector, despite weaker-than-expected private payrolls data and uncertainty around the first day of the U.S. federal government shutdown. With the Labor Department's September...

Wall Street's three major indexes managed to close Tuesday's choppy session higher, also marking quarterly and monthly gains, even as investors braced for a U.S. government shutdown, which would delay key economic reports and muddy the Federal Reserve's interest rate...

 U.S. stocks closed lower for a second straight session on Wednesday, as investors booked profits with indexes near record levels after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell flagged potentially stretched stock prices and ahead of a reading on inflation later in the...

U.S. stocks finished lower on Tuesday as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the U.S. central bank needs to balance inflation concerns with a weakening job market in its coming interest rate decisions. The Nasdaq led declines, with shares of Nvidia NVDA.O down...

All three major U.S. stock indexes registered record closing highs for a third straight session on Monday, led by gains in technology shares, with Nvidia NVDA.O gaining after it said it will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI. Shares of Nvidia gained 3.9%. Nvidia...

The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 closed lower in choppy trading on Wednesday, after the U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rates by an expected 25 basis points and Fed Chair Jerome Powell cited the weak job market. The Dow closed higher after meandering during Powell's...

Wall Street's three main stock indexes ended lower in choppy trading on Tuesday as caution set in ahead of an anticipated interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve. Investors are largely still pricing in a 25 basis-point cut from the U.S. central bank at the...

The three major U.S. stock indexes closed higher on Monday with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq hitting intraday record highs, as the Street awaits the Federal Reserve's crucial policy meeting later this week. Tesla TSLA.O shares climbed after regulatory filings...

The Nasdaq notched a record high close on Friday in a mixed trading session, lifted by Microsoft as investors looked ahead to the Federal Reserve's policy meeting next week, when it is widely expected to cut interest rates to counter a slowdown in the jobs...

Wall Street's main indexes notched record-high closes on Thursday following gains in Tesla and Micron Technology, while U.S. inflation and jobless data fueled expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this month. U.S. consumer prices rose more than...