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Trader Tommy Kalikas works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Jan. 11, 2019. Stocks are opening broadly lower on Wall Street, led by declines in banks and technology companies. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

January 11, 2019 at 9:12 am

US stocks drift in a quiet close to another winning week VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes nestled a hair lower on Friday after the falling price of oil weighed on energy companies, but the...

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January 5, 2019 at 8:00 am

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman talks about 2019 housing trends

The head of the Seattle-based brokerage talks about the market’s trajectory, the outlook for first-time buyers, and what it will take to fix the shortage...

January 4, 2019 at 8:05 am

Economists: Buyers face tougher housing market in 2019

Americans' path to homeownership is likely to get more expensive this year, even as a severe shortage of homes for sale shows signs of easing....

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December 31, 2018 at 2:00 pm

Trade war, big profits, wild swings: a look at 2018 markets

Wall Street started 2018 strong, buoyed by a growing economy and corporate profits. It didn't end that way. U.S. stocks climbed to new highs in...

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Monday, Dec. 31, 2018. U.S. stocks erased gains in thin trading on the final day of what is shaping up to be the worst year since the financial crisis. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg 775275919

December 31, 2018 at 7:29 am

U.S. stocks end dismal, volatile year on a bright note

The S&P 500 index, the market's main benchmark, finished the year with a loss of 6.2 percent. The last time the index fell for the...

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December 30, 2018 at 6:05 am

Pass it on: Redfin CEO says try to be steady in tough times

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Glenn Kelman knows something about steering a company through tumultuous economic times. As chief executive of Seattle-based Redfin, Kelman led the...

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December 28, 2018 at 8:36 am

Wall Street faces annual losses despite solid gains for week VIEW

Wall Street capped a week of volatile trading Friday with an uneven finish and the market's first weekly gain since November. Losses in technology, energy...

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December 27, 2018 at 2:09 pm

Trade war, profits, marijuana: Markets saw it all in 2018

Wall Street started 2018 strong, buoyed by a growing economy and corporate profits. It isn't ending that way. U.S. stocks climbed to new highs early,...

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Trader Edward Curran works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018. Wall Street’s wild Christmas week goes on, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average slumping 300 points at the open Thursday, a day after notching its biggest-ever point gain. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) NYRD112 NYRD112

December 27, 2018 at 7:19 am

US stocks stage big rally, erase 600 point drop in Dow

Thursday's sharp swing in stocks followed their best day in 10 years. Even so, the market remains headed for what could be its steepest annual...

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Specialist Vera Liu, left, and trader James Matthews work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018. Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street Wednesday, with real estate, raw materials and energy stocks leading a broad rebound from Monday’s steep losses. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) NYRD102 NYRD102

December 26, 2018 at 7:08 am

Wall Street notches best day in 10 years in holiday rebound VIEW

Investors recouped all their losses from Wall Street’s Christmas Eve plunge as stocks rallied across all sectors, giving markets their best single-day percentage gain in...

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