U.S. Stock Markets Consider Opening on Wednesday

By John McCrank and Sakthi Prasad Oct 30 (Reuters) - U.S. stock exchanges are looking at opening on Wednesday after monster storm Sandy receded from New York, sources said, and the New York Stock Exchange is t...

U.S. Stock Markets Closed on Presidents Day

The global economy is a perpetual motion machine, but U.S. stock markets do take breaks: In addition to the weekends, there are nine holidays on which the stock exchange is shuttered. One of them is coming up ...

Markets Rise as Alcoa Sees Stronger Demand

LONDON (AP) - World stock markets rose Wednesday after the fourth-quarter earnings season got off to a positive start in the U.S. with aluminum giant Alcoa (AA) forecasting higher demand for 2013. Demand f...