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How stock-market investors should trade what could be a historic Fed dissent over interest rates on Wednesday
The conclusion of the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting on Wednesday could produce a historic dissent. If so, investors should ...
Dow left behind as S&P 500 soars to record after record. What gives?
The S&P 500 is set to score a record finish every day of this past week while the Dow has yet to return to record territory ...
The ECB just pressed pause on rate cuts. The next move isn’t clear.
ECB President Christine Lagarde left economists and investors a little less certain as to when, or perhaps even whether, ...
Here’s how the stock market tends to react to Fed decisions — and how a twist this week could change that
U.S. financial markets will be closed Thursday in observance of the Juneteenth holiday. The Fed has never delivered a decision the day before a public holiday going back to at least 2000, according to ...
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William Watts is MarketWatch markets editor. In addition to managing markets coverage, he writes about stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities, including oil.