Trader wisdom on trading opening gaps in stocks and S&P 500 futures. But the best trades are during the earnings season, it is common to see a 5% or 10% move before the opening, which can either throw off a trade or enhance it.

New U.S. single-family home sales unexpectedly rose in September, pointing to sustained demand for housing even as data for the prior three months were revised lower.

New U.S. single-family home sales unexpectedly rose in September, pointing to sustained demand for housing even as data for the prior three months were revised lower.

Britain has long relied on foreigners to fund a big deficit in its balance of payments, a risk that has been heightened by the country's decision to leave the European Union.

Wall Street looked set to open lower on Friday after a week of choppy trading as the corporate earnings season winds down and investors again focus on the timing of the Federal Reserve's next interest rate hike. Investors were also cagey ahead of next week's annual meeting of central bankers from around the world in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in which Fed Chair Janet Yellen is likely to cement expectations for a slow pace of rate increases.

A respected reporter recently asked me what were a few important things I had learned from all this and all of that during the past decade and I surprised myself and perhaps him by answering that I now realized that younger generations – the Xers and Millenials – were far different generations from my own. “How so?” he asked.

The markets saw a mixed bag of data early Thursday as stocks held steady.

Cotton plunged to a 21-month low, trimming costs for clothing retailers including Gap Inc., after the U.S. forecast rising inventories and as industrial output slowed in Asia.

MFGI trustee says there is a $1.6 billion gap between customer claims and assetws available to pay them.

Daily corporate bonds brief including analysis of Microsoft, Gap, Nokia and Range Resources corporate bonds