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FILE - The front of the New York Stock Exchange is shown, Monday, May 24, 2021. Stocks are opening solidly higher on Wall Street Friday, June 11 keeping the S&P 500 on track for its third weekly gain in a row. The benchmark index was up 0.1%. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Stocks notch modest gains and a 3rd winning week for S&P 500

By Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga Jun. 11, 2021 02:59 AM EDT

How major US stock indexes fared Thursday

The Associated Press May. 06, 2021 04:21 PM EDT
Stocks are closing higher Thursday, as gains by banks and technology companies led a broad rally. The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a...

Currency traders walk near screens showing the Korean Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (KOSDAQ), left, and the foreign exchange rates at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Asian shares were higher on Thursday after a broad advance on Wall Street led by technology companies and banks. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Asian shares rebound after advance on Wall Street

By Elaine Kurtenbach Apr. 21, 2021 03:28 AM EDT

People walk by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Shares skidded in Asia on Wednesday after Wall Street closed lower for a second straight day, led by drops in technology companies and banks. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Asian shares slide after tech, bank sell-off on Wall Street

By Elaine Kurtenbach Apr. 20, 2021 02:12 AM EDT

An employee of a bank walks by screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), left, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at the foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. Asian shares mostly fell Thursday as caution set in over company earnings reports, recent choppy trading in technology stocks and prospects for more economic stimulus for a world battling a pandemic. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Asian shares down on caution after modest US gains

By Yuri Kageyama Feb. 03, 2021 12:17 AM EST

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks during a stop on his fly-around tour to encourage Georgians to stop the spread of COVID-19 in Augusta, Ga., Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP)
Accounting error costs Georgia, tax collections stay strong

By Jeff Amy Oct. 06, 2020 06:54 PM EDT

A news-stand vendor, wearing a mask to protect against the coronavirus, sits near QR codes for Alipay and WeChat, two popular online payment system in Beijing, China on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. Ant Group, the financial technology arm of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, filed for a dual-listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai, in what would likely be the world’s largest initial public stock offering since the coronavirus pandemic began. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
Alibaba's Ant Group files for IPO in Hong Kong, Shanghai

By Zen Soo Aug. 25, 2020 05:59 AM EDT

How major US stock indexes fared Tuesday

The Associated Press Jul. 07, 2020 05:07 PM EDT
Technology companies and banks helped drive stocks broadly lower on Wall Street Tuesday as the market gave back some of the big gains it made the past couple...

From right, Secretary for Home Affairs Caspar Tsui Ying-wai, Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Erick Tsang Kwok-wai, Chief Executive Carrie Lam, Secretary for civil service Patrick Nip Tak-kuen, Secretary for Innovation and Technology Alfred Sit Wing-hang and Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui Ching-yu line up during a news conference in Hong Kong, Wednesday, April 22, 2020 to announce the new appointed principal officials. Hong Kong reshuffles cabinet, with five new minister appointments. Hong Kong on Wednesday appointed five new principal officials in a cabinet reshuffle, with new appointments for the ministers overseeing mainland affairs, civil service, financial services, home affairs as well as innovation and technology. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Hong Kong reshuffles Cabinet, appoints 5 new ministers

By Zen Soo Apr. 22, 2020 01:51 AM EDT