The first lesson I learned about investing at the age of 11 was to know which way the market was going. Is it going up or down? It sounds too simple, but it’s the last thing most people consider.

The overall US stock market tried to rally early during the Friday session, but seems a little stuck at the moment as most ...

We have said before that index funds rarely trade, which is mostly true. The obvious exception is when the index itself does a “reconstitution.” When indexes change, index funds have to replicate the ...

The Nasdaq Composite crashed when President Trump started announcing tariffs earlier this year, but the index promptly entered a new bull market in early April. Since 1990, the Nasdaq Composite has ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rebounded on Friday after New York Federal Reserve President John Williams suggested the central bank could cut interest rates yet again this year. The blue-chip index ...