they are not generally regarded as crucial economic indicators—the stock market, after all, is not the economy. Charting the history of indexes over time puts them in context and gives them meaning.

Investors are behaving as if "there's no recession risk whatsoever," according to The Leuthold Group.

Bearish pundits have warned of portfolio and economic armageddon for months, yet the data reflect a more upbeat reality. Cooling inflation and strong earnings have softened geopolitical fears, and ...

India’s benchmark indices plunged on Monday morning despite a stronger-than-expected GDP growth of 7.4 per cent, as investors ...

Results revealed that a 1% increase in banking assets relative to GDP was associated with a decrease in economic growth of up ...

Politics aside, recent history has illustrated that the ADP figures aren’t exactly gospel. Month after month, they have diverged from the Labor Department’s more resilient payroll numbers, often ...