Wall Street's benchmark S&P 500 index rose on Wednesday and a rally in tech stocks lifted the Nasdaq above the 20,000-point milestone for the first time, after a U.S. inflation report boosted ...

Investors still widely expect the Fed to cut rates by a quarter percentage point next week. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The rate of inflation edged higher in November as consumer prices rose 2.7% relative to a year ago and 0.3% relative to the month before, the Labor Department announced Wednesday. Both readings were a ...

Gains in big-tech were led by Google-parent Alphabet, which gained 5.5% for the second day running, along with Tesla, whose 6% surge took Elon Musk's net worth past $400 billion. Apple was the only ...