The start of the new year brought mixed results for the stock market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 317 points, or 0.7%. The S&P 500 closed up 0.2%. The Nasdaq Composite closed down slightly.

New Year's Day celebrations in Sydney. Australian stocks saw their biggest annual gains in four years. (Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images) Here is the end-of-year schedule: U.S. bond markets close early ...

The Labor Department reports falling numbers of job seekers seeking unemployment benefits. Silver and gold prices fall for the second time in this holiday-shortened week. If you’re focused on picking ...

The S&P 500 is a diversified index featuring 500 stocks from 11 different economic sectors. The index has delivered a compound annual return of 10.5% since its inception in 1957. The iShares Core S&P ...

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NEW YORK (WABC) -- The most significant winter storm to hit the Tri-State area in almost four years ended on Saturday, with the heaviest snowfall north and east of New York City. With the storm a ...

The storm led to hundreds of flight cancellations. A major winter storm is making post-Christmas road travel extremely dangerous in parts of the Northeast, and bringing snow and ice to the New York ...

U.S. stock markets close early, at 1 p.m. ET for Christmas Eve; bond markets close at 2 p.m. The U.S. economy grew by 4.3% in the third quarter topping expectations as consumers continued to spend.

New Land Enterprises proposed a mixed-use project with up to 500 apartments in Madison. Development would redevelop more than eight acres of the former Hooper Corp. headquarters. Plans include ...

The Justice Department released thousands of new records on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, but at least 550 pages in the documents were fully redacted in the initial release, CBS ...

At least 15 newly-released files have disappeared from the Justice Department's website containing documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, including one file that shows a photo of President Trump, CBS ...