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The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index got the ball rolling on the new trading week with record-high closes amid general earnings optimism.

The Dow Industrials and S&P 500 closed at record highs on Monday, as earnings season kicked in to high gear in one of the heaviest reporting weeks of the quarter with bellwethers in multiple sectors poised to announce results.

Investor sentiment soared today, pushing the Dow and S&P 500 to record closes, the former's second straight. The tech-heavy Nasdaq nabbed a triple digit win, as big hitters like Alphabet (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), and Apple (AAPL), prepare to chime in with their latest

The Dow Industrials and S&P 500 closed at record highs on Monday, as earnings season kicked in to high gear in one of the heaviest reporting weeks of the quarter with bellwethers in multiple sectors poised to announce results.

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Crown Holdings Inc (Symbol: CCK), where a total of 4,429 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 442,900 underlying shares. That amounts to about 62.2%

The Dow Industrials and S&P 500 hit fresh record highs on Monday, as earnings season kicked in to high gear in one of the heaviest reporting weeks of the quarter with bellwethers in multiple sectors poised to announce results.

Global equity markets rose on Monday, while U.S. Treasury yields dipped as investors were buoyed by a better-than-expected U.S. corporate earnings season that kicks into gear this week.

A nonprofit coalition of nearly 40 companies, including U.S. retailers Walmart and Costco, said on Monday it had launched a new firm that would offer pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services for employers.

The S&P 500 hit a record high on Monday, led by Tesla and Paypal, while industrial bellwethers Caterpillar and 3M lifted the Dow to a new peak in the run-up to quarterly reports from big U.S. technology companies, whose shares struggled to gain.

Tesla Inc surpassed $1 trillion in market capitalization on Monday after landing its biggest-ever order from rental car company Hertz, a deal that reinforced the electric car leader's ambitions to top the entire auto industry in sales over the next decade.

U.S. stock indexes edged higher in choppy trade on Monday, led by gains in Tesla and PayPal shares, while investors geared up for earnings reports from heavyweight technology companies this week that could provide direction to the markets.

Today's video focuses on what to watch during upcoming earnings for Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD), Spotify (NYSE:SPOT), and Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG). Here are some highlights from the video.

Pew Research recently conducted a survey to measure public trust in politicians. The results were shocking, showing only 24% of Americans claiming to trust the government. This number is down a massive 51% since the mid-1960s. That's right, down from 75% to only 24%. These statis

U.S. stock indexes were set to open higher on Monday as investors geared up for earnings reports from heavyweight technology companies this week, while PayPal jumped after saying it was not interested in buying Pinterest.

A nonprofit coalition of nearly 40 private employers, including U.S. retailers Walmart and Costco, said on Monday it has launched a new company that would offer pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services for employers.

IBM's (NYSE: IBM) stock tumbled nearly 10% to a seven-month low on Oct. 21 after the tech giant posted a weak third-quarter report.IBM's revenue rose just 0.3% year-over-year to $17.6 billion, which missed estimates by $190 million. But excluding its divested businesses and curre

Investors have been upbeat recently, and that's shown up in the performance of the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC). Despite lagging behind other benchmarks that rose to record highs last week, the Nasdaq has been able to move higher, and as of 6:30 a.m. EDT, Nasdaq futures

U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Monday as investors geared up for earnings reports from heavyweight technology companies this week, while PayPal jumped after it said it was not interested in buying Pinterest.

The Russian-based agency behind last year's massive SolarWinds cyberattack has targeted hundreds more companies and organizations in its latest wave of attacks on U.S.-based computer systems, Microsoft said in a blog post.

World stocks paused near six-week highs on Monday as investors girded for the busiest week of third quarter earnings in the backdrop of slowing growth, with widening inflation risks from multi-year-high crude oil prices weighing on sentiment.