Everybody loves a big, round number, especially in the stock market and especially when that number is climbing higher rather than plunging lower. Investors have endured both over the past seven years, watching as the widely watched Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed...
The U.S. economy is rounding out 2014 in a sweet spot of robust growth, sustained hiring and falling unemployment, stirring optimism that a postrecession breakout has arrived. A fuller picture of the year-end trends emerged Tuesday when the Commerce Department,...
