The Dow Jones was up on the stock market today while yields rose. Treasury Secretary Bessent spoke. UnitedHealth rose but Apple and Tesla fell.

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reflects "how desperate the market is for good news," said Dann Ryan, a managing partner at Sincerus Advisory with a focus on high-net-worth investors. "Most clients still have a healthy risk ...

Tech stocks, which fall under both information technology and communications, have been among the big gainers: Neither the Dow industrials nor the S&P 500 ever quite hit bear-market territory.

The latest update on consumer confidence did little to lift the stock market on Friday. The Dow was down 365 points, or 0.8%, while the S&P 500 was down 0.5%. The Nasdaq Composite fell 0.5%.

Stocks were falling on Thursday after the latest tariff threats overshadowed a wave of upbeat economic data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 108 points, or 0.3%. The S&P 500 was down 0.5%.

Shares in Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount fell in afternoon trading following President Trump's plan to tariff films produced overseas. “If this is deployed on a wide scale, it may ...