Stock Prices

If You're A Bull, What Do You Buy?

Dan Dorfman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business


Dan Dorfman

Keeping in mind that the market has already ballooned some 50% in the past seven months -- meaning you just could be late to the party -- what do you buy?

In Finance, History Often Written By Losers

Pablo Triana | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business


Pablo Triana

The world at large was being told something which was plainly not true. The real innovators were ignored, the faked ones were glorified.

Wall Street Pulls Back On Israel-Gaza Crisis

AP | JOE BEL BRUNO | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — Wall Street retreated Monday as continuing violence in the Middle East and a resulting jump in oil prices reminded investors that the...

Steve Ballmer Is Carnac The Magnificent

Ron Galloway | Posted 01.07.2009 | Business


Ron Galloway

Ten years ago Microsoft stock was $33/share. Today it's $19. That's a return to shareholders of -40%. Ten years ago Apple stock was $8. Today it's $91. That's a return, um, higher than -40%.

Buffett's Wrong: Stay Out of Stocks

Diane Francis | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business


Diane Francis

Far be it from me to contradict one of the world's greatest stock sages and business analysts. But I will.

Are Cheap Stocks Bargains Or Traps?

Los Angeles Times | Tom Petruno | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business


When the stock market goes on sale, smart investors are supposed to seize the opportunity. But Wall Street's decline of the last three weeks has been...

Fed Acts To Ease Strain On U.S. Economy

New York Times | Edmund L. Andrews | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Impelled to take extraordinary measures for the second time in less than a week, the Federal Reserve moved on Tuesday to subdue the deepening crisis i...

Stuffing Beaten Out Of Stocks

Los Angeles Times | Walter Hamilton | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Investors had little to give thanks for Wednesday as a sharp drop in stock prices pushed the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index into negative terri...