Many kinds of factors affect the stock market. Social unrest can cause the market to drop, while a company discovering a new source of renewable energy can cause stock market prices to soar. Several ...

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Recent positive news may put two theories on economic disenchantment to the test. By Nate Cohn The New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. Stocks have boomed in recent days.Credit...Angela Weiss/Agence ...

Recently, many of us had probably noticed that when the 10-year U.S. government bond yield increased, the Nasdaq-100 Index tended to drop in value. This post will demonstrate what other economic ...

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Public opinion polls in 2020 pointed toward an easy presidential election win by Joe Biden over Donald Trump. The FiveThirtyEight polling average had Biden winning by 8.4 percentage points (see chart ...

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