I love Halloween. how often do you get to say "Boo!" without looking the fool? Oh, but wait a minute. If you're the Dow Jones Index, you get to say "Boo! I fooled you" often.
BusinessWeek | Moira Herbst | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business
On the one hand, the Dow Jones industrial average once again danced around 10,000 last week. If U.S. gross domestic product rebounds as expected on Oc...
Stephanie Adamowicz | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
When the Dow closed above 10,000 points last week and the Frieze art fair opened in London, art market observers were presented with an opportune time to take stock.
Eric Schurenberg | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
by way of putting the five-figure Dow in perspective let note some other numbers that were released since the Dow hit the 10k mark and that matter a lot more to you and your future.
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — A year ago this weekend, the Dow Jones industrial average had just finished a slow-motion crash. Over eight days, it fell 2,400 point...
AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — The Dow Jones Industrial Average could get a new name. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that its publisher, Dow Jones & Co., ...
AP | Tim Paradis and Sara Lepro, AP Business Writers | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Dow Jones industrials rose back above 9,000 for the first time since early January. Investors snapped up a broad range of stocks...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 07.14.2009 | Business
Oil is going up, interest rates are going up and unemployment will go --- all bad things --- and yet they're not killing the market. One money manager says that means the upward trend remains intact.
Michael J. Panzner | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business
In recent months, the spread between short and long-term bond yields has increased significantly, hitting record extremes. Many market-watchers believ...
AP | TIM PARADIS and MADLEN READ | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Not even grisly job losses could get in the stock market's way Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average clawed higher to end above 8...
Keith Boykin | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media
So what will the Journal say now that the stock market has "rebounded"? Does this mean the market now loves Obama's policies?
AP | SARA LEPRO | Posted 05.02.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street opened the second quarter with solid gains, extending a four-week rally that brought the market off its lowest levels in ...
Scott Paul | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business
The Dow breaks 7,000 and suddenly we're on the road to recovery? No, Wall Street is shutting out a continued torrent of real and painful economic news from communities all across America.
Media Matters | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
In the past few days, MSNBC has repeatedly used misleading graphics of the Dow Jones industrial average showing a decline since the beginning of Novem...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
Burning up my inbox today is news of this story from the Charlotte News and Observer, about an anti-gay marriage rally in Raleigh. It contains thes...
AP | SARA LEPRO and TIM PARADIS | Posted 04.05.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Investors retreated from Wall Street again, driven by worries about the nation's big banks and General Motors Corp. Stocks slid to t...
Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business
While this week the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped below 7,000 and reached a 12-year low, such a measure is actually very rare. According to Th...
The Big Picture | Barry Ritholtz | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business
Check out the comparison of the current market, including Friday's low, to all previous bear markets. ...
Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 03.23.2009 | Business
For immediate news on where the Dow is trading now go here. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell below its lowest close since 1997 on concerns that ...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
Europe, Japan and the United States are all in the midst of a recession and the world's fastest growing emerging markets, among them China and India, are slowing markedly.
Suze Orman | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business
I am sorry to say that it is foolish to think that a stimulus package will be an insta-cure. I think it is wiser to to keep in mind that it is going to take years to make this all right.
Wall Street Journal | ROB CURRAN and KEJAL VYAS | Posted 02.02.2009 | Business
The only two Dow stocks to rise in 2008 were Wal-Mart Stores, with a 18% gain, and McDonald's, up nearly 6%. General Motors fell 60 cents, or 16%, ...
The Media Consortium | Posted 03.25.2009 | Business
We are clearly out of options that match up with Friedman's monetarism, indicating that public policy has nowhere left to turn except direct government spending on economic support.
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 11.07.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — The misery worsened on Wall Street Tuesday, with stocks piling on losses late in the session and bringing the two-day decline in the ...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 11.06.2008 | Business
For the first time since October of 2004, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped below the 10,000-point mark. It has dropped as many as 700 poin...
Loral Langemeier | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living