Dow Jones

Stock Prices Drop For Second Straight Day

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The Dow Jones industrial average has dropped 52.10 to 12,546.08 in the opening minutes of trading today, after falling 277.04 yesterday. The losses fo...

Dow Drops 280 Points On Recession Worries

AP | Leslie Wines | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


A growing conviction that the U.S. is headed toward recession sent Wall Street plunging Tuesday, with weak retail sales figures and a disappointing qu...

Stocks Slide On Negative Citi News

AP | LESLIE WINES | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Stocks skidded Tuesday after weak economic news and a disappointing quarterly report from Citigroup Inc. signaled Wall Street's worries about the econ...

Stocks Rally On Robust IBM Reports

AP | Leslie Wines | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Wall Street advanced sharply Monday, with solid preliminary results from IBM encouraging investors to buy back into the stock market after last week's...

Stocks Slammed By Bad Credit Fears

AP | Tim Paradis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Wall Street plunged again Friday amid renewed fears that the financial sector's troubles with bad credit won't soon end and that some consumers are bu...

Stocks Rise On Potential Countrywide Buy

AP | Madlen Read | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


A volatile Wall Street advanced Thursday for the second day in a row, as investors found renewed confidence in a report that Bank of America Corp. is ...

Housing Woes, AT&T News Sink Stocks

AP | Madlen Read | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Wall Street skidded lower in another erratic session Tuesday as investors worried that the tumbling economy may not only cripple mortgage lenders like...

Wall Street Declines After Weak Jobs Report

AP | Tim Paradis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Wall Street plunged again Friday after the government's much-anticipated employment report showed weaker-than-expected job growth and a rise in the u...

Stocks Rise After New Jobs Report

AP | Tim Paradis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Stocks rose moderately Thursday after a report of an increase in new jobs during December eased some concerns about the economy a day before the Labor...

Stocks Start 2008 With Flat Open

AP | Tim Paradis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Stocks were little changed in early trading Wednesday as investors awaited several economic readings and minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeti...

Wall Street Wraps Up 2007 In Somber Mood

AP | Madlen Read | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Wall Street ended a painful year with another steep loss Monday as investors glumly anticipated that 2008 would bring more of the uncertainty and turb...

Dow Drops 101 Points On Final 07 Trading Day

AP | Madlen Read | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Wall Street ended a painful year with another steep loss Monday as investors glumly anticipated that 2008 would see a continuation of the uncertainty ...

Stocks Fall In Early Trading

AP | Madlen Read | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Stocks declined Monday, the last day of a volatile and difficult year on Wall Street, as investors awaited a report on home sales. The National Assoc...

Stocks Skid After Bhutto's Death, Durable Goods News

AP | Tim Paradis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Wall Street skidded Thursday after the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and after the Commerce Department's durable goods o...

Stocks Surge On Merrill, RIM Reports

AP | Tim Paradis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Stocks jumped Friday following a better-than-expected rise in profits at Research in Motion Ltd. and on word that Merrill Lynch may have lined up a bi...

Bad Market? Do As Buffett Does

Motley Fool | Richard Gibbons | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


This is one ugly market. That ugliness shows up in the averages, with the Dow down 4% since mid-October, but it's much worse in individual stocks. St...

Stocks Finish Mixed After Topsy-Turvy Day

AP | Madlen Read | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Wall Street ended a volatile session mixed Wednesday as investors wrestled with a troubling outlook for bond insurers, a $9.4 billion writedown at Mor...

Stocks Fall On Startling Inflation Jump

AP | Tim Paradis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Stocks sold off Friday after a jump in consumer inflation raised concerns about how much freedom the Federal Reserve has to continue cutting interest ...

It's Official: Dow Jones Shareholders Approve Murdoch Bid

AP | Seth Sutel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Shareholders of Dow Jones & Co. gave final approval Thursday to a $5 billion bid from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to acquire the financial publishing ...

Wall Street Erases 272-Point Gain After Erratic Trading Day

AP | Joe Bel Bruno | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Wall Street finished only slightly higher in an erratic session on Wednesday as investors remained unconvinced by a Federal Reserve plan to work with ...

Anticipation Builds As Murdoch Takeover Nears

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


On the heels of Rupert Murdoch's Dow Jones takeover, to be made official with tomorrow's shareholder vote, today was a big day in Murdoch/Dow Jones ne...

With Sale Scheduled For Thursday, Murdoch "Already Calling The Shots" At WSJ

New York Times | Richard Perez-Pena | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


In the last few months, Rupert Murdoch has moved into an office at Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal. He has pushed the paper'...

Rupert Murdoch's Son James Positioned As News Corp Heir Apparent

CNBC | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Rupert Murdoch tapped his son James Murdoch to take over News Corp's Asia and Europe operations, according to a source familiar with the matter, in a ...

Olympic Sponsors See Their Stock Prices Soar

AP | Daniel Sorid | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Companies that have paid to associate with the 2008 Beijing Olympics are trouncing their competition in the stock market this year. Shares of the gam...

Wall Street Continues To Soar On Fed Cut Hopes

AP | Madlen Read | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Wall Street barreled higher Wednesday, driving the Dow Jones industrials up more than 300 points after a Federal Reserve official hinted that the cent...