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Hopes that the ugly December jobs report will free the Fed to keep QE steady is lifting shares of home builders like D.R. Horton and Toll Brothers.

Stocks with high dividend yields tend to trade like bonds, and they are in demand Friday after a disappointing December jobs report.

Friday brought new record highs for lots of consumer-related stocks in media, autos, personal-care products, pizza, wine and guns.

Investors tend to stick with what works.  Perhaps that explains why they continue to flock to health care stocks.

Despite the Fed taper announcement, Wall Street enjoyed another bullish week and there are signs that more gains are in the works.

Stronger-than-anticipated GDP data helped send industrial stocks like Lockheed Martin and Honeywell International to new records.

Housing starts spiked the most since 1990 to the highest level in close to six years as the housing market continues rebounding.

More than 10% of all S&P 500 stocks hit all-time highs today after the Fed announced its decision to slow its monthly bond purchases.

Upbeat economic news is pushing 10-year Treasury yields to nearly 2.9% amid  expectations the Fed will dial back quantitative easing.

A number of major averages are on track for all-time highs as Janet Yellen’s Fed confirmation hearing offered few negative surprises.

Market participants are bidding up defense players ahead of the Federal Reserve policy decision Wednesday afternoon.

With Apple’s earnings due Monday afternoon, here’s a look at shares generally trend after the big announcement.

Both Netflix and Tesla have made their investors a boatload of cash this year, but there are reasons to question whether that trend will continue.  

Shares of well-known eaters like Starbucks, Dunkin’ Brands and Papa John’s continue to shatter record highs thanks to strong momentum and lower energy prices.

The charts suggest the stock market may have become overbought, but Amazon and Google may still have room to run.

If you use and like a company’s product, its stock might work out nicely as well.

If the Nasdaq manages to hold above 3781.59 today it will be up five weeks in a row, the longest winning streak in eight months (since Feb. 8).

United Technologies just announced that a prolonged federal government shutdown will force it to furlough thousands of workers because of a lack of government inspectors to approve production of Black Hawk helicopters and other aircraft and weapons systems.

Consumer-based stocks are hitting record highs as Wall Street sticks with the simple plays.

Friday was a tough day for Wall Street. But expect stocks to hit new highs next week.