US equity markets rallied and bond yields fell a day after the Federal Reserve’s latest monetary policy meeting - Dow gained +565-points or +1.70%, with American Express Co (up +3.0%), Caterpillar Inc (+3.14%), Chevron Corp (+3.32%), and Nike Inc (+4.16%) all rising 3%+.

US equity markets advanced and Treasury yields retreated as investors digested the latest monetary policy pronouncements from the Federal Reserve along with the latest corporate earnings releases - Dow rose +222-points or +0.67% to record its best three day advance (up +2.63%) since April.

US equity markets advanced ahead of the latest monetary policy pronouncements from the Federal Reserve tomorrow morning AEST, still logged a third straight month of declines - Dow rose +124-points or +0.38%, with Boeing Co (up +2.45%) and Intel Corp (+2.27) both gaining over >2%.

US equity markets rallied, with the Dow and S&P 500 snapping three session losing streaks - Dow rallied +511-points or +1.58%, logging its best single session advance since 2 June. Nike Inc (up +3.9%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc (+3.77%), Verizon Communications (+3.53%) and Travelers Companies Inc (+3.01%) all rallied over >3%.

US equity markets retreated on Friday (27 October), with the S&P 500 index joining the Nasdaq in official correction territory - Dow dropped -367-points or -1.12% to 32,417.59, logging its lowest settlement since 28 March.

US equity markets recorded a second straight session of sharp declines, with technology majors again leading the downside - Dow fell -252points or -0.76%, with Microsoft Corp (down -3.75%) and Nike Inc (-3.40%) both down over >3%.

US equity markets fell sharply as investors digested the quarterly earnings from mega-capitalisation technology stocks and as bond yields resumed their march higher - Dow fell -105-points or -0.32%, and has dropped for five of the past six sessions.

US equity markets rebounded as investors digested a flood of corporate earnings releases from Dow components and technology heavyweights - Dow gained +205-points or +0.62%, snapping a four-day losing streak.

US equity markets settled mostly lower, with the Dow and S&P500 recording their lowest closing levels since 31 May - Dow fell -191-points or -0.58%, settling lower for a fourth straight session. However, Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) Inc rallied +3.29% to US$21.96 after JPMorgan turned bullish on the healthcare-services and pharmacy chain, citing a “new era” for the company under Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Tim Wentworth. WBA hit a 25-year intra-session low of US$20.48 last Friday (20 October).

US equity markets retreated on Friday (20 October) as Middle East tensions and elevated US bond yields steered the benchmark indices to their largest weekly percentage declines since the week ending 22 September - Dow fell -287-points or -0.86%, logging a third straight session decline of more than >250-points and dipping into negative territory for the year. Intel Corp (down -2.10%) and Salesforce.com Inc (-2.20%) both fell over >2%. However, Merck & Co Inc rallied +2.23% after it signed a US$5.5B deal with Daiichi Sankyo for the rights to jointly develop and commercialise three of the Japanese company's candidate cancer drugs.