The question, he asks, "is whether the bulls are full of bull?" Ortz argues that the plight of the banks -- a bell-weather market sector -- is still an unresolved issue.
businessinsider.com | Henry Blodget | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business
Doug Short has taken a detailed look at the 10 bear markets and bear-market-recoveries since 1950. You can click through a slideshow showing each of ...
AP | SARA LEPRO | Posted 05.07.2009 | Home
NEW YORK — Wall Street pulled back for the first time in five days Monday as investors worried about balance sheets at banks and the quarterly r...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 04.06.2009 | Comedy
Just moments after Mr. Cramer delivered his upbeat prediction, stock prices went into an epic free-fall unprecedented in the annals of modern trading as millions of investors rushed for the exits.
24/7 Wall Street | Posted 05.07.2009 | Business
The assumption is that the earnings for the first quarter from most companies in the S&P 500 will be atrocious. That can be set side-by-side with the ...
Huffington Post | Nick Sabloff | Posted 05.05.2009 | Business
On Thursday's episode of "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer declared that the depression is, well, over. No stranger to making bold statements about the stoc...
Larry Gellman | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business
Those of you who are waiting for the economy to get "back" to normal will probably be waiting for the rest of your lives.
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...
AP | SARA LEPRO | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Investors dove into stocks Thursday, extending a rally that gave the Dow Jones industrial average its best four weeks since 1933. St...
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 ...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business
If that's true, the end result of the debt debacle appears inevitable: job firings, consumer spending and home foreclosures will continue to mount, while stocks should once again head lower.
Ian Welsh | Posted 04.27.2009 | Business
Repeat after me: The market is not the economy. Of course the market is doing well. The administration promised to put around 2 trillion more dollars into it in various forms.
AP | TIM PARADIS and SARA LEPRO | Posted 04.27.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Caution reasserted itself on Wall Street, sending stocks down sharply but not enough to stop the market from notching its third strai...
Larry Gellman | Posted 04.27.2009 | Living
Although it may not be as much fun as the more recent version, the new normal will probably look more like the normal of my youth than the unsustainable glory days of the last 20 years.
AP | TIM PARADIS and MADLEN READ | Posted 04.26.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — This time, it was the consumer who had Wall Street rallying. Better-than-expected earnings from big consumer brands Best Buy, ConAgr...
Patrick O'Sullivan | Posted 04.26.2009 | Comedy
Baby Back Securities: Melt in your mouth, not on your balance sheet. These choice, succulent, tainted assets are smothered in Tim Geithner's own secret recipe sauce (just watch it trickle down!) then slow-grilled to perfection.
Larry Gellman | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business
President Obama says we should stay angry but express our outrage in productive ways. I say we should get rid of the anger altogether.
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street is showing it still has some moxie. Investors shook off an attack of nerves that wiped out a big early advance Wednesday...
Diane Tucker | Posted 10.11.2009 | World
The Chinese banking system has been through so much stress during the last few decades, they are in a much better position than the U.S. to deal with the global financial crisis, says Joshua Cooper Ramo.
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 04.23.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street got the news it wanted on the economy's biggest problems _ banks and housing _ and celebrated by hurtling the Dow Jones i...
Mike Papantonio | Posted 04.20.2009 | Media
Most of the pundit misinformation occurred because investigative reporting in the news industry is dead. This new breed of financial TV pitchmen weren't paid to ask tough questions.
Dan Dorfman | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business
You've got to be bonkers to swim in shark-infested waters, but it's widely happening -- no, not in the movies, but in real life -- on the financial front.
AP | STEPHEN BERNARD and TIM PARADIS | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — You know things have changed on Wall Street when the housing industry saves the day. A surprise government report that home construc...
AP | STEPHEN BERNARD and TIM PARADIS | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street's big rally fizzled _ and maybe that's OK. Analysts said Monday's pullback after a four-session surge didn't necessarily...
AP | IEVA M. AUGSTUMS | Posted 04.15.2009 | Business
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Wall Street knows it shouldn't get ahead of itself. So traders and investors are likely to go into the new week cautiously as...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business