Market Report - Us Close
US close: Stocks end session mixed as Trump looks to strip Hong Kong of favoured status
Wall Street stocks turned in a mixed performance on Friday after Donald Trump said the White House was set to begin taking action to revoke Hong Kong's favoured trade status with the United States.
US close: Stocks head south ahead of Trump's conference on China
Major indices turned about-face on Thursday as a dire jobless claims report, weaker-than-expected gross domestic product numbers and Trump's announcement of a press conference all weighed on sentiment.
US close: Stocks finish higher as markets rally on economy reopening
US stocks finished in the green on Wednesday, as optimism regarding the reopening of the economy and a potential Covid-19 vaccine offset fears around a heightening of tensions between the world's two largest economies.
US close: Markets finish higher on lockdown easing, vaccine hopes
US stocks recorded solid gains by the close on Tuesday, as investors returned from the long Memorial Day weekend to news that pharmaceuticals firm Novavax had begun trials on a Covid-19 vaccine in Australia.
US close: Stocks sink on jobless data, trade tensions
Wall Street stocks closed lower on Thursday as market participants digested another jobless report from the Department of Labor and news that the Senate had passed a bill that would make listings by Chinese firms on US exchanges more difficult led to fears of a ratcheting up in trade tensions between the world's two biggest economies.
US close: Stocks close higher as markets shrug off Trump's twitter fingers
US stocks closed higher on Wednesday, with major indices clawing back most of the losses recorded in the previous session despite some heightened rhetoric from the President aimed at China.
US close: Markets finish higher on vaccine hopes
US stocks finished firmly higher on Monday, as Jerome Powell said he was optimistic of the US economy's ability to bounce back from the Covid-19 pandemic, and amid positive data from Moderna Therapeutics' second phase clinical trial on a vaccine candidate for the coronavirus.
US close: Wall Street stages massive turnaround as bank stocks surge
US stocks closed higher on Thursday on a solid performance from bank shares and climbing oil prices helped offset another dire jobless report.
US close: Dow extends losing streak following dire warning from Fed's Powell
US stocks closed sharply lower on Wednesday after Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell warned the coronavirus-fuelled crisis was "without modern precedent".
US close: Markets finish lower as reopening concerns continue
Stocks on Wall Street finished sharply lower on Tuesday, with the Dow booking its biggest one-day slump since the start of May, as market participants continued to monitor the White House's efforts to reopen the economy.
US close: Markets close mixed amid concern around economic reopening
Wall Street stocks closed in a mixed state on Monday, as market participants became concerned that the White House could be pushing to reopen the nation's economy too soon, as the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic continued.
US close: Mixed performance on the Street following dismal payroll figures
Major US indices turned a mixed performance on Wednesday, bringing an end to a rally that started on Monday following some dismal payroll figures.
US close: Stocks record modest gains as California eyes reopening
US stocks closed higher on Tuesday as market participants again bet on the nation's economy opening up and cheered a further recovery in oil prices.
US close: Tech stocks help markets stage turnaround
Trading on Wall Street finished in the green on Monday, as technology stocks led a late-session turnaround, and after Donald Trump's continued attacks on China raised fears of a resumption in trade hostilities between the world's two largest economies.