The CAC 40 in France was Europe's outstanding performer on Thursday, as its heavy weighting of luxury-goods groups pushed the index up 1.8%. The rally came after Swiss-listed Richemont, whose brands ...

U.S. stocks traded sharply higher in Wednesday's final hour of trading, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 headed for a third consecutive session of gains after December's CPI data ...

A benign reading from the Consumer Price Index report assuaged market fears about the path of borrowing costs.