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Second-quarter earnings season picks up this week, as 76 S&P 500 companies are scheduled to report.

July 15 - The Nasdaq ended lower on Thursday, pulled down by Apple, Amazon and other Big Tech companies as a fall in weekly jobless claims data fed investor concerns about a recent inflation spike.Amazon, Apple, Tesla and $Facebook$all fell. Nvidia tumbled around 4%.The S&P 500 technology sector index ended a four-day winning streak. Earlier this week, investors' favor for heavyweight growth stocks pushed the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq to record highs.The S&P 500 energy sector index fell more than

Powell says economy 'a ways off' from bond taper.BofA slips as low interest rates hurt lending business.July 14 - The S&P 500 ended with a gain after briefly hitting an intra-day record in a choppy session on Wednesday, as investors balanced worries about inflation with reassuring comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell.Of the 11 S&P 500 sector indexes, utilities and consumer staples were among the strongest, while energy sank over 3%.U.S. monetary policy will offer "powerful support" to the econ

JPMorgan drops amid low interest rates U.S. consumer prices surge in June Boeing slips on new produc

Second-quarter earnings season gets under way this week, with several big banks reporting. JPMorgan ChaseandGoldman SachsGroup kick things off on Tuesday, followed byBank of America,Wells Fargo,andCitigroupon Wednesday andMorgan Stanleyon Thursday.The week’s economic calendar will be equally busy. The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the consumer price index for June on Tuesday, followed by the producer price index for June on Wednesday. Expectations are for year-over-year increases of 4.0% a

Late last month, Facebook notched what could be its most notable achievement yet: Its market value hit $1 trillion. Just five U.S.-listed companies have reached the $1 trillion mark—or 0.08% of the total number of stocks currently traded on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. That’s roughly the odds of a high school basketball player making the National Basketball Association. It’s an elite club.Now that Facebook has earned access—its market cap was down slightly by the end of the week, to

U.S. stock futures opened slightly lower Tuesday night after the S&P 500 ended a seven-day winning streak, its longest since August.Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell by 54 points, or 0.16%. S&P 500 and $Nasdaq$ 100 futures dipped 0.10% and 0.06%, respectively.During the regular session, the 30-stock Dow fell 208.98 points, or 0.6%. The S&P 500 ended the day down by 0.2%. The Nasdaq Composite rose nearly 0.2%. The tech-heavy index rose to a fresh all-time high on Tuesday.$Investors$ may b

Following its busiest week in over a decade, the US IPO market is taking a breather after the holida