Los Angeles Times on Nostr: Wall Street closes its best week of the year with more gains ========== Wall Street ...
Wall Street closes its best week of the year with more gains
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Wall Street closed its best week of the year with more gains, as the S&P 500 rose 0.2% for a seventh straight gain and pulled back within 2% of its all-time high set last month. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 0.2%, and the Nasdaq composite added 0.2%. Treasury yields eased in the bond market after a couple of mixed reports on the U.S. economy. The market's focus will swing next week to Jackson Hole, Wyo., where Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell will give a speech late in the week. H&R Block leaped 12.1% for one of the market's largest gains after it reported a bigger-than-expected profit for the latest quarter. In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 3.88% from 3.92% late Thursday. The two-year yield, which more closely tracks expectations for Fed action, fell to 4.05% from 4.10% late Thursday.
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https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-08-16/stock-market-today-wall-street-closes-its-best-week-of-the-year-with-some-more-gains
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Wall Street closed its best week of the year with more gains, as the S&P 500 rose 0.2% for a seventh straight gain and pulled back within 2% of its all-time high set last month. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 0.2%, and the Nasdaq composite added 0.2%. Treasury yields eased in the bond market after a couple of mixed reports on the U.S. economy. The market's focus will swing next week to Jackson Hole, Wyo., where Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell will give a speech late in the week. H&R Block leaped 12.1% for one of the market's largest gains after it reported a bigger-than-expected profit for the latest quarter. In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 3.88% from 3.92% late Thursday. The two-year yield, which more closely tracks expectations for Fed action, fell to 4.05% from 4.10% late Thursday.
#WallStreet #StockMarket #S&p500 #DowJones #Nasdaq #TreasuryYields #UsEconomy #FederalReserve #JacksonHole #H&rBlock #BondMarket #10yearTreasury #TwoyearYield
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-08-16/stock-market-today-wall-street-closes-its-best-week-of-the-year-with-some-more-gains