Jessica Menton

The Dow finished lower for the second strait session as investors weighed a series of mixed corporate earnings. 

Shares of Dow component IBM sank nearly 6 percent Tuesday, a day after the technology company posted a 14 percent decline in revenue.

Wall Street is looking ahead to a Tuesday speech from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, hoping for further clues on the timing of the U.S. central bank’s looming interest-rate increase.

United directors are “waiting to hear back from his family and his doctors" regarding further details about the heart attack.

The Dow ended the week in positive territory again Friday as Wall Street continued to eye third-quarter earnings season.

The U.S. Federal Reserve’s latest Beige Book revealed Wednesday how the sector was affected from mid-August through early October.

A series of mixed economic reports could give Federal Reserve officials room to pause before raising interest rates this year.

Shares of the world’s largest retailer dropped to a three-year low, putting the stock on course for its worst trading day since 2000.

AB InBev and SABMiller, the world's top two beer companies, will combine to create a brewing company that will control 31 percent of the global beer market.

The financial sector is still waiting to benefit from a U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate hike this year.

Wall Street is bracing for what could be a grim start to corporate earnings this fall.

Federal Reserve officials delayed an interest rate increase in September because of growing risks to their outlook for economic growth.

A rise in U.S. crude inventories offset previous forecasts for falling production. 

Over the next several weeks, the market will be guided by third-quarter earnings, which are likely to show “more misses than hits.”

Meanwhile, global equities lost about $11 trillion in the third quarter, driven by fears that China’s economic slowdown would spread.

The disappointing September employment report followed a recent trend of mixed economic reports, which may prompt the Fed to delay its first rate hike in nearly a decade.

Employers added 142,000 jobs in September, but the labor force participation rate continues to drop — which indicates more Americans are giving up on finding work.

The Dow dropped slightly while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq each ticked upward Thursday.

Larry Nicholson, CEO of CalAtlantic Group, spoke to IBT about creating the fourth-largest U.S. homebuilding company, worth $5.2 billion.

Uncertainty regarding a possible U.S. Federal Reserve interest-rate hike exacerbated volatility in what's typically the worst month of the year for equities.

U.S. stocks closed mildly higher Tuesday after seesawing most of the day as investors weighed uncertainties surrounding the global economy.

U.S. stocks wavered Tuesday, a day after the Dow plunged 300 points. Investors are weighing a looming government shutdown and uncertainties surrounding the global economy.

The Dow dropped by 300 points Monday, as market watchers awaited word from the Fed on an inevitable interest-rate hike.

The Dow rose nearly 200 points during Janet Yellen’s speech, only to reverse and trade lower after the Fed left the door open to hiking rates soon.

U.S. averages jumped more than 1 percent after initially fluctuating following the central bank's statement. 

The Fed has held rates at historic lows since 2008 in the midst of the Great Recession to help the economy emerge from a near collapse.

Global shares traded mixed ahead of the U.S. central bank’s announcement, which could mark the first increase in interest rates in nearly a decade.

Markets braced for a highly anticipated announcement from the U.S. central bank that could mark the first interest rate hike in nearly a decade.

A rate move this week depends on whether central bankers agree the economy has reached, or is on course to hit, the Fed’s major objectives.