Five years after the Great Recession wiped trillions of dollars off global stock markets, the world is facing another economic risk from the fossil fuel industry.
No.* *We explain in the video above. Previously on The Huffington Post: CNBC Pretty Sure That Brief Appearance From Raul Grijalva Devastated The...
By Chris Taylor March 13 (Reuters) - By all accounts, investors have enjoyed a terrific start to 2012. Stocks had thei...
BOSTON -- Managers of stock mutual funds had an unusually tough time beating the market last year, with fewer than one in five achieving that goal, a ...
NEW YORK -- The headlines say the financial crisis is behind us. The Dow is back to pre-financial crisis levels. Layoffs are the slowest since the fin...
Robots gambling with the world's money so fast that they'll stretch cables across oceans just to gain a few milliseconds of speed. Do not insult the term "investing" by calling this thing what it is: auto-gambling.
There are simply times in our lives when we are better prepared to incorporate our past experiences and ongoing motivation into a winning formula for success.
NEW YORK — October is somewhat cursed for the stock market – the Crash of 1929, Black Monday in 1987, a slow-motion meltdown in 2008. This...
We're not in a bubble. We're not in a boom and we're definitely not going to bust. We're watching a new ecosystem emerge, albeit prudently, which presents fairly fertile ground for entrepreneurs with sound business models and opportunity aplenty for those with the patience and persistence to ride the next wave.
Three years ago Warren Buffett said "Be fearful when everyone is greedy. Be greedy when everyone is fearful." We had just seen a huge crash in worldwi...
Whenever the leadership class feels nervous, you can count on some of them to offer the less-moneyed masses a bone to demonstrate they care. Warren Bu...
As markets spiral downward -- quickly followed by consumer confidence -- each CEO must ask hard questions about how to grow his business in this tumultuous economic environment.
I don't know how long it's going to take to dig out from under this monetary mess. I do know I'm not going to give in to panic.
A decade ago, I read a book that made a lasting impression on me. It was a memoir called Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner, who had recently passed ...
As the stock market continued a sharp slide on Monday, technology companies found themselves hammered particularly hard, with the Dow Jones U.S. Tech ...
THIS ought to have been a good week for the American economy. The country’s leaders at last ended a ludicrously irresponsible bout of fiscal brinkma...
It's not unusual for the market to be manically depressive and psychotraumatically challenged at a time like this. But we really need some good news. And that may not happen until we get some good policy coming out of Washington.
Yesterday, American Express OPEN released the results of its latest Small Business Monitor, a biannual survey of small business owners. While the repo...
Think crocheting a hat is hard? Then New York artist and crocheter-extraordinaire Olek will put your skills to further shame. Olek has recently croche...
NEW YORK — Stocks fell to their lowest level in four months Friday after the government said hiring remains weak and another European country wa...
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The stock market seemed to be in sync with the improving economy until Tuesday when, without warning, the bottom dropped out and full blown panic set in.
The budget problems in Greece were initially blamed for the market turbulence, but then word came down of some bad trades at the Chicago Mercantile Ex...
May 7 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. regulators plan to examine whether securities professionals triggered yesterday’s stock- market plunge or exploited the tu...
The Reformed Broker has this, well, pretty darn hilarious video of a trader giving a webinar as the market crashed yesterday. Our favorite quote c...
