When historic volatility strikes Wall Street, it's not uncommon for investors to seek out metrics and events that have strongly correlated with moves higher or lower in the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq.

At the end of November, 1933, The Daily Sentinel reported good news for local workers: “Five hundred and sixty-five men are scheduled to be put to work here as soon as possible,” the paper said. They ...

(Reuters) — Wall Street closed out its worst year since the Great Depression on Wednesday after an unstoppable credit crisis and a dreadful economic outlook left investors questioning their faith in ...

For more than a century, no asset class has come remotely close to matching the average annual return of stocks. But this doesn't mean Wall Street's major stock indexes move from point A to point B in ...