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Plug Power Inc. disclosed stock trades made by Chief Executive Andrew Marsh earlier this week, in which he netted more than $ 36 million. Marsh purchased a total of 573,268 shares of Plug stock on Jan. 19 at a weighted average price of $ 2.8764, according to a MarketWatch analysis …

Wall Street appeared to cheer a change of leadership in the White House, producing one of its best returns in nearly four decades on the day of a new president’s inauguration. Read: Stock-market performance under Trump trails only Obama and Clinton The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.83% and the …

MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Sectors including banking, biotech, gold mining, green energy and infrastructure will be in play this year. See full story. Biden promises 100 federal vaccination centers by end of his first month in office President-elect Joe Biden on Friday gives a speech in Wilmington, Del., about his plan …

CNBC’s Jim Cramer, citing a famous quote from Alexander Haig, recently told his co-host David Faber that Reddit, not Citigroup C, +0.28%, was “in control.” He then used a “Rock, Paper, Scissors” metaphor to hammer home his point. “Citi’s paper, OK? Reddit’s scissors,” Cramer said. Cramer and Faber were discussing …

Micron Technology Inc. shares rose in the extended session Thursday after the memory-chip maker’s earnings confirmed that the industry is turning a corner. Micron’s MU, +2.59% results and forecast topped Wall Street estimates, and shares rose 1.5% after hours, following a 2.6% rise to close at $ 79.11 in the …

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 …

Santa Claus may not be coming to town due to the pandemic, but he will pay a socially distant visit to Wall Street equity traders if history is any guide. Stocks have performed exceedingly well during a seasonal period that includes the year’s last five trading days and the first …

Wall Street is looking forward to happy holidays and a farewell to a pandemic-stricken 2020 and a welcome to a new year, with the last two weeks in December representing abbreviated sessions. On Thursday, the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will end trading at 1 p.m. Eastern Time (and …

Raise your hand if you knew, after the March crash, that the stock market would hit record highs by the end of the year. Stop. Put it down. Nobody believes you. Even for the hardy “buy when there’s blood in the streets” crowd, throwing more money into the game when …