Oil futures climbed Monday, with U.S. and global benchmark prices settling at their highest in a week after posting a third straight weekly decline on worries about the demand outlook.
With the Federal Reserve holding its benchmark interest rate at the highest level in 22 years, analysts at Goldman Sachs Group say the “big question” for investors is whether the return to yields seen before the global financial crisis of 2008 proves persistent.
Stock-market bulls are attempting to push the S&P 500 index to its ninth straight winning session Thursday, which would mark its longest streak of gains since 2004.