On Friday on the stock market, the heavy action waited until late in the day. With the week and the month coming to an end, the stock market rose nicely. As a result, the stock market was up both on the day and for the month of May.
For the day, the Dow Jones jumped 1.2% to finish at 8,500.3. The Nasdaq was up 1.3% to 1,774.3, while the S&P’s 500 jumped 1.4% to end the day at 919.1. An index of smaller public companies, called the Russell 2000, was up nearly 2% to 501.6.
While May was a good month for …read more

A few weeks ago, the stock market was rising on a daily basis. Since then, it’s been up and down. Many market experts think that investors are a bit nervous because there is sentiment that there has been too much good news in a short amount of time. On Thursday, there was more evidence of fear and nervousness on Wall Street.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down 1.5% on Thursday to finish the day at 8,292.1. The Nasdaq index was down nearly 2% to finish at 32.6, while the S&P’s 500 fell to 888.2 after a 1.7% drop. A fourth …read more