A news-driven stock market will receive plenty of input in the coming week, as earnings season and election maneuvering ...

Many other industrialized democracies hold elections on weekends when the markets are closed, or declare a holiday.

Since 1874, the S&P 500 has climbed in the year following 32 of the last 38 midterm elections, gaining an average of 14%, ...

The U.S. midterm elections could reshuffle stock market winners depending on which party ends up controlling Congress, according to JPMorgan. Described as "one of the year's most anticipated political ...

Politics usually doesn't affect the stock market -- unless this one thing happens.

The pace at which market timers exited stocks during moderate weakness this summer suggests the market has not yet topped out. The bull market has received yet another lease on life. I say "yet ...

It was the fall of 1980. For nearly a year, Americans had been watching the same crisis unfold on television night after night. Fifty-two U.S. citizens were being held hostage in Iran after militants ...