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US stocks ended in negative territory on Thursday as investors, left with no economic data or any sentiment-swaying catalysts, took the opportunity to consolidate ahead of third-quarter earnings season.

Wednesday morning's rally in U.S. government debt was raising the possibility that long-dated yields might fall toward key resistance levels ahead of a $39 billion 10-year-note auction Wednesday afternoon.

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The FTSE 100 index slipped from its record high on Thursday, dragged lower by declines in banking stocks including HSBC and Lloyds Banking Group, even as miners

After a bumpy couple of days, the stock market was grinding higher on Thursday. The S&P 500 was up 0.5%. The Nasdaq Composite rose 0.5%. The Dow was up 256 points, or 0.6%. The Russell 2000 was up 0.5%, too. Even more encouraging was breadth: Nearly two ...

Employers scaled back hiring at the softest pace in a year in September, according to a poll by the Recruitment & Employment Confederation and KPMG, in another sign that the worst may be over for the labour market.

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The tensions between the world’s largest economies led to widespread drops across Wall Street, with roughly six out of every seven stocks within the S&P 500 falling.