The Market

U.S. stocks mostly shook off early losses to trade higher Wednesday, though technology sector stocks remained lower, after Democrats scored at least one U.S. Senate seat in run-off elections in Georgia Tuesday, bringing the possibility of regulation and higher corporate taxes. How are stock benchmarks performing? The Dow Jones Industrial …

Raphael Warnock won one of two Senate runoffs in Georgia early Wednesday, according to the Associated Press, bringing Democrats a seat closer to a Senate majority. The AP called the race for Warnock over GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler at about 2 a.m. Eastern. Results were continuing to come in from …

Now is when investors need to be especially vigilant to avoid recency bias, which occurs when we give greater weight to events that have happened recently than those that occurred further in the past. Investors are guilty of this, for example, when they get rid of a financial adviser with …

The numbers: U.S. manufacturers said business improved in December for the eight month in a row and new orders matched a pandemic high, signaling they are weathering the record coronavirus outbreak better than other major industries. The Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing index rose to 60.7% in December from …

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President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump were campaigning on Monday in Georgia, where two U.S. Senate runoff elections on Tuesday are set to determine the balance of power in Washington. Biden spoke at an afternoon event in Atlanta in support of Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock, …

Many are hoping that when Donald Trump—one of the most divisive U.S. presidents in the past century or more—leaves office, the historically elevated levels of partisanship in U.S. politics will at least begin to subside. But the opposite is vastly more likely.  There are short- and intermediate-run, as well as …

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U.S. stock-market futures opened flat late Sunday, in the first trading session of the new year. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, +0.01%, S&P 500 futures ES00, +0.05% and Nasdaq-100 futures NQ00, +0.05% were little changed. U.S. stocks finished higher Thursday, the last trading day of 2020, with the Dow …