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Asian stocks have surged, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 index leading gains after Wall Street romped to records following the ...

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Sensex and Nifty traded higher on Friday, driven by the U.S. Federal Reserve's significant interest rate cut and hopes for a ...

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Other valuation measures, including price-to-book value and price-to-sales, also show stocks are well above their historic ...

The S&P 500 had already been climbing as investors grew more confident that the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates by half a percentage point. Thursday’s gain put the index in range of a closing ...

Bank stocks moved up on Thursday as they added to gains from the previous session on the heels of the first interest-rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve since 2020. Analysts said the Fed’s 50-basis-p ...

Stocks on Wall Street soared Thursday a day after the Federal Reserve slashed its benchmark interest rate by 0.50 percentage points, with investors cheering the central bank's move to head off a ...

Neither Large nor Small Cap Value is favored right now, but Large-Caps are closer to generating a trend change signal. Until ...

Stocks jumped Thursday morning as investors cheered the Federal Reserve’s eye-popping half-point interest rate cut.