A weakening U.S. labor market is a risk for both the U.S. economy and markets right now. But the most closely watched numbers — the rate of new jobs created and the official unemployment rate — don’t ...

Summer’s over and the stock market’s most troublesome month is under way. But looking beyond September — and October, for that matter — the historical data are more encouraging. Dow Jones Market Data ...

Conventional wisdom has long held that the more optimistic consumers are, the better it is for the stock market. We decided to put that to the test. What we found is a lot more complicated than some ...

Subscribers to Chart of the Week received this commentary on Sunday, September 22. By Friday, the euphoria over the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut -- and subsequent Thursday melt up -- had worn ...