Carl Quintanilla

The post-election stock market rally has propelled the Dow Jones Industrial Average to new highs. Tuesday’s intra-day peak of 19,953.75 is just a stone’s throw away from 20,000. But does Dow 20,000 hold any real significance? El-Erian Weighs In Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic...

After a shaky open on Friday, it looked like the S&P 500 could make a bit of history this week. Unfortunately, this is not the type of record that investors enjoy breaking. Going into Friday’s session, the S&P 500 had fallen for eight consecutive days. The index hasn’t had a...

For some, August marks the beginning of the end of summer. For others, August is time for back to school shopping. For many investors, however, August is also a rally killer month. According to analysts at Argus Research, the current "unsettled environment" in the stock market also happens to be "...

It’s very difficult to say which direction the stock market will head in any given month. However, if recent history is any indication, investors should buckle their seat belts in the month of August. As CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla pointed out on Twitter, the S&P 500 has moved...

U.S. stocks finished the day near session lows as investors found little reason to be bullish. Housing data came in poor and failed to rally the bulls. Several Fed members raised the idea of a rate hike but “participants agreed that, with the unemployment rate approaching 6.5 percent, it would...

There are millions of tweets written every day. Benzinga sifts through the maelstrom of information to find the ten best tweets of the day that are either informative, insightful or just down right comical. 1. Ian Estepan Ian Estepan ( @ianestepan ) tweeted out this morning about the latest...