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.

U.S. equities eked out small gains overall last week amid a relatively light week of trading volume as investors weighed the recent slowing trend in economic growth data ahead of this week’s highly anticipated Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting.