If you're a trader or investor, it's important to know and understand what time the stock market opens. If you place a trade outside of stock market hours, your trade will wait in a queue until ...

The S&P 500 has averaged about a 5% gain through the beginning of the year up to July 4 over the past 5 years, and a 5.8% gain over the past 10 years, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

"The mindset of the market is to embrace risk because that brings rewards rather than losses -- keep shrugging it off," Steve ...

You can still trade shares on the stock market outside normal trading hours on a platform known as an electronic communication network, or ECN. The ECN matches buyers and sellers, and it takes a ...

On The Clock Most global stock exchanges are open during business hours, in local time. In the United States, most stock markets are open from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern time. What is an IPO?