Down Jones said a "technical error" led them to publish multiple fake headlines that said Google was buying Apple for $9 billion.
The fallout could be as high as 15 percent, according to some experts, to correct for substantial overvaluations.
The Kansas City Fed reported stellar manufacturing activity, but those results may be based more on expectations than reality.
Kellyanne Conway, a senior aide to President Donald Trump, attributed the record-high Dow Jones to "the Trump effect."
Disappointing earnings from American blue chip companies sapped investors’ risk appetite on the week’s last trading day.
European markets started the day on a wobbly note, with investors wary ahead of a European Central Bank policy meeting Thursday.
The index hit a nine-month high Monday in a market buoyed by Hasbro and Disney, as investors braced for a flurry of quarterly reports.
The closely watched stock index, which tracks the largest U.S. companies, made it past the 18,000 mark for the first time since July 2015.
The breakdown of talks in Doha fueled investor fears that a production cut may not be agreed upon until the next meeting in June.
The U.S. dollar consolidated its weekly gains, and investors awaited a meeting between oil-producing nations to be held in Doha, Qatar, on Sunday.
Asian stocks surged Thursday while European stock markets opened lower as investors tracked a dip in crude oil prices.
European stocks and U.S. stock futures pointed up Monday even as Asian markets showed mixed results and crude oil prices dipped again.
The U.S. dollar fell further against the Japanese yen Thursday after minutes of a Federal Reserve meeting released Wednesday offered little prospect of a rise in interest rates in July.
Investor sentiment perked up after data showed a sustained recovery in the U.S. labor market and a rebound in Chinese manufacturing activity.
Chinese equities ended the day slightly higher even as other Asian and European markets fell over weak manufacturing data.
Crude oil futures slid after the U.S. announced that the country’s crude stocks had reached yet another record high Wednesday.
While most major markets were closed Monday, Asian bourses started the week broadly down after the Easter weekend.
World markets were widely down Thursday following a dent in a two-month rally in crude oil prices and a surge in the U.S. dollar.
Investors cheered China's move Monday to ease rules on offering cheap loans to stock brokerages.
Crude oil prices touched a 2016 high and the dollar weakened further, providing a fillip to most Asian markets Friday.
Investors are awaiting several policy meetings by major central banks around the world this week — looking for insight into the overall state of the economy.
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi unveiled a slew of growth-boosting measures like rate cuts and an extended asset-buying program.
