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The Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF was rising 0.6% on Friday morning at $266.77, putting the fund on pace to potentially book ...

With inflation clearly trending lower, the Fed started cutting interest rates in September for the first time since March ...

In September, the Federal Reserve started a new rate-cutting cycle, something the stock market has seen only five other times ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average went down 55.39 points or 0.1% to end at 43,389.60 for its third straight daily loss, ...

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The Trump trade was largely extended on Monday, with shares of Tesla, bitcoin, the US dollar, and US bank stocks all surging.

The Monday effect has largely disappeared over the last decade ... Conversely, the worst time to sell stock is typically during panic-driven market declines, where prices are falling rapidly ...

Today's economic data included the November NAHB Housing Market ... highs over the last half hour, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (+0.27%) up about 50 points. Gold futures settled $20.90 higher (+0.8 ...

Core CPI, which excludes food and energy costs and is considered a better indicator of future prices, also matched estimates.