Initially brushing off the previous day's weakness, stocks raced higher out of the starting gate yesterday morning, but the bears resumed control less than an hour later, sending the major indices sharply lower. Aided by continued strength in online retail giant Amazon.com, the Nasdaq Composite w ... Read more

The major indices see-sawed between positive and negative territory through another choppy, indecisive session yesterday. Like the previous day, buying and selling pressure was roughly in parity, but this time the bulls had the slight edge into the close. The S&P 500 bounced from a 0.9% intrad ... Read more

The main stock market indexes gapped approximately 1% lower on the open, but stocks shook off early weakness to finish near the flat line and with mixed results. The S&P 500 advanced 0.3%, the Nasdaq eked out a gain of 0.1%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.3%. The small-cap Russ ... Read more