The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended nearly flat on Friday after hitting a record high in morning action — riding a wave of market optimism and a timely push from the “Oracle of Omaha.”

U.S. stock futures showed little movement ahead of a critical Washington meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Investors are also watching the Federal Reserve closely,

Stock futures were slightly lower Monday morning as investors prepare for a slew of retail sector earnings reports in the coming days and a major speech from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at the end of the week.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks edged back from their record levels on Friday in a quiet finish to another winning week.

Wall Street's main indexes were mixed on Thursday with S&P 500 edging up to a closing high, while the Dow Jones and Nasdaq were flat, after a hotter-than-expected producer prices report dampened expectations of potential interest-rate cuts.

Although President Trump's tariff and trade policy is headline news, another factor is of far greater importance to the stock market.

PM Eastern Time, the S&P 500 edged down by 0.1%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.3%, and the Nasdaq Composite was mostly unchanged.

NEW YORK (AP) — Most stocks fell on Wall Street Thursday after a disappointing report said inflation was worse last month at the U.S. wholesale level than economists expected. But gains for Amazon and some other influential Big Tech companies helped mask the losses.

The blue chip Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1.0% to 44,922 on strength in UnitedHealth Group ( UNH, +3.9%) and Nike ( NKE, +3.1%). The IPO market remains hot as evidenced by today's market debut from Bullish, the Peter Thiel-backed crypto platform that owns CoinDesk.

PM Eastern Time, the S&P 500 slipped 0.2%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.2%, and the Nasdaq Composite was down 0.3%.