Whether it's earnings growth or market cap or investing plans, shares in a small number of companies are setting the tone for a large swath of the stock market, for better or worse.

While presidents of all types like to take credit for stock market performance, they have minimal direct impact on the market. A crash is slightly more likely in 2025 due to high starting ...

That was the last time the U.S. stock market closed ... less in interest, they pull away fewer potential buyers from gold, which pays investors nothing. It's a favorite number of Elon Musk ...

The tally of publicly traded companies in the U.S. fell from about 8,800 in 1997 to just 3,952 by the end of 2024. The famed ...

Some people -- regardless of whether blame should be assigned to them or not -- will look at the president and ask if they are responsible for stock market declines. I am here to tell you that ...

People love to connect the performance of the economy to whomever the President of the United States is -- perhaps even more so with the stock market. With the barrage of investors parking their ...