U.S. stocks slid lower this past week with the worst weekly returns since May partially driven by expectations for a more volatile corporate earnings season ahead.

U.S. stocks notched another strong performance this past week as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s congressional testimony and the minutes from June’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting signaled a high likelihood of an interest rate cut at this month’s FOMC meeting.

U.S. equities were propelled higher this past week by a reprieve in trade tensions from the U.S.-China trade truce at the G20 summit but finished slightly below record...

Stocks closed out a strong June, buoyed by gains from bank stocks after most raised their dividend payouts and share repurchases.

Accommodative messaging from the U.S. Federal Reserve helped drive a surge in equity markets last week that drove the major U.S. equity indices back toward their all-time highs last reached around the end of September last year.