Stock Prices

What the Return of Market Volatility Tells Us

Mohamed A. El-Erian | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Markets, Dow Jones, Stock Prices, Market Volatility, Stocks, Economy, Stock Markets, Stock Market, Business News

The renewed volatility in stocks last week was due to conflicting signs of additional central bank liquidity support, both in Europe and the US.

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Earning a Real Return on Real Investment

Roger Martin | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Stock Compensation, Investing, Return on Investment, Stock Roi, Current Stock Price, Stocks, Stock Prices, Stock Market, Investors, Business News

Critics of eliminating the focus on stock-based compensation argue that investors deserve a return on their investment; that management must work assiduously to maximize the stock price. This argument plays fast and loose with logic.

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Occupy Wall Street's Outrage at Greed Can Expand to Corporate Stock Manipulation

William Lazonick | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Executive Compensation, Stock Prices, Economic Performance, Stock Buybacks, Business News

Rather than invest profits in building a strong economy, corporate executives invest in their own pay.

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Why The Rest Of America Can't Invest Like Buffett

Slate | Bethany McLean | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Goldman Sachs, Brian Moynihan, Stock Prices, Wall Street, Stock, Oracle of Omaha, Bank of America, Warren Buffett, Investor, Premium, Business News

It's not even a week old, and Warren Buffett's deal to invest $5 billion of Berkshire Hathaway's money in Bank of America has already been dissected, ...

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Scapegoats For Stock Market Volatility

New York Times | FLOYD NORRIS | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: European Debt Crisis, High-Frequency Trading, Sovereign Debt, Wall Street, Stock Prices, Lehman Brothers, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Stock Market, Double-Dip Recession, Nasdaq, Credit Crisis, Short-Sellers, Business News

As is often the case when market gyrations become excessive, governments have good reasons to hope that the significance, if any, lies in market imper...

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Corporate Lobby To Blame For Economic Mess

Washington Post | Steven Pearlstein | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Stock Prices, Double-Dip Recession, Stock Market, National Association of Manufacturers, Business News, Washington DC, Jobless, Financial Crisis, Ceo, Economic Recovery, Chamber of Commerce, Unions, Financial Regulation, Business News

The economy is flatlining. Global financial markets are in turmoil. Your stock price is down about 15 percent in three weeks. Your customers have lost...

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Markets Rally On Fed Speech Day After Huge Losses

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Wall Street, Stock Prices, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Double-Dip Recession, Nasdaq, Federal Reserve, Economic Recovery, Ben Bernanke, Video, Business News

NEW YORK -- Wall Street started the week with its worst single day since December 2008 Monday. But it followed up on Tuesday with its best day since M...

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Wall Street's Plunge Threatens Already-Weak Consumer Confidence

AP | PAUL WISEMAN | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: J.P. Morgan Funds, Northwest Airlines, Consumer Confidence, Wall Street, Stock Prices, Job Insecurity, Double-Dip Recession, Europe's Debt Crisis, Astor Asset Management, Capital Economics, Consumer Spending, Rasmussen Consumer Index, Business News

WASHINGTON — What little confidence consumers have is being undermined by the tumult on Wall Street. Americans struggling with lean wages and j...

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Despite Plunge, Stocks Still Expensive

New York Times | DAVID LEONHARDT | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Nyse, Wall Street, Stock Prices, Stocks, Standard & Poor?S 500-Stock Index, David L. Dodd, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Benjamin Graham, P/E Ratio, Business News

The main problem for the stock market is obviously the economy. But it’s not the only problem. Stocks are also under pressure because they are fairl...

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Morgan Stanley Downgrades Google Due To Aggressive Expansion

Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Google, Margins, Expansion, Morgan Stanley, Stock Prices, Android Market, Wall Street, Stock Market, Nasdaq, Google Chrome, Hiring, Youtube, Doubleclick, Google Apps, Video, Business News

Morgan Stanley downgraded Google Inc a notch to "equal-weight," saying the search giant's margins will shrink as it undertakes aggressive hiring a...

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Stocks Up, Houses Down, And What This Means for Most Americans

Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Housing Market, Wall Street, Stock Prices, Stocks, Middle Class, Mortgage Crisis, Economic Recovery, Housing Crisis, Recession, Business News

While Wall Street's bull market is making America's rich even richer, most Americans continue to be mired in a worsening housing crisis that the administration is incapable of stemming, and of which Wall Street has now seemingly washed its hands.

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Another Market Crash in 2011?

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Casey Research, Housing Market, 2011 Crash, Bloomberg TV, New York City, Stock Prices, Great Recession, Market Forecasts, Dow Jones, TrimTabs Research, Business News

The masses, namely the army of retail investors, are starting to get swayed by signs of a peppier economy and rebounding equity prices. But there are still plenty of lurking nightmares out there.

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Ben Bernanke Defends Fed's Massive $900 Billion Program

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walmart, Low Interest Rates, Stock Prices, Zirp, Fed QE2, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Fed Asset Purchases, Treasuries, Business News

What will the Federal Reserve's massive $900 billion plan actually accomplish? As HuffPost's Shahien Nasiripour pointed out yesterday, the Fed's new a...

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Why Oracle's CEO Should Be Fired and Its Board Sued by Shareholders

Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011

Compensation of CEOs is generally deemed outrageous. But what is now at stake, is that, while the amounts themselves are outrageous, their correlation to performance is questionable, too.

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Phantom Assets: Undermining Corporate Elections and Shareholder Rights

N. E. Marsden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hedge Funds, Derivatives, Shareholder Rights, Stock Market, Stock Prices, Short Selling, Investors, Stock Trading, Economy, Credit Default Swaps, Business News

Every once in awhile, a journalistic ray of light exposes how far our financial system has veered from anything resembling objective reality.

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Are Stocks Currently Cheap?

Michael Pento | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Price-to-Earnings Ratio, Stock Prices, Stocks, Stock Market, Business News

Once you view the real numbers on PE ratios and dividend yields, it is hard to make an argument that stocks are cheap.

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More Market Nightmares Lurking

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stock Prices, Stock Fluctuation, Financial Crisis, Stock Market, Dow Jones, Nouriel Roubini, Business News

The unmistakable message from the growing market worries and swings in stock prices is that as far as most investors go, the market's nightmares are not about to vanish anytime soon.

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Health Stocks Up As Investors Sense GOP Victory in Mass.

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scott Brown, Health Insurance Companies, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Industry, Stock Prices, Massachusetts Senate Race, Health Care, Health Care Stocks, Martha Coakley, Business News

This story was updated at 4:30 p.m. ET to reflect the market's close. Wall Street is already betting that a Republican win in Massachusetts will comp...

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

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jonathan Moreland, Morgan Stanley, Walt Disney Stock, Wall Street Regulation, Wall Street, Stock Prices, Walt Disney Company, Stock Market, Benjamin Winburne, Business News

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?

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In Finance, History Often Written By Losers

Pablo Triana | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Subprime-Trading-Loss, Interest Rates, Wall Street Bailout, Commodities, Wall Street, Stock Prices, Currency, Value at Risk, The City of London, Business News

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

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Wall Street Pulls Back On Israel-Gaza Crisis

AP | JOE BEL BRUNO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stock Prices, Stocks, Futures, Wall Street, Business News

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

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Steve Ballmer Is Carnac The Magnificent

Ron Galloway | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Apple Iphone, Apple, Microsoft, USA Today, Stock Prices, Mac OSX, Macs, Business News

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%.

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Buffett's Wrong: Stay Out of Stocks

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Are Cheap Stocks Bargains Or Traps?

Los Angeles Times | Tom Petruno | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trap Stocks, Stocks, Finance, Economy, Bargain Stocks, Personal Finance, Stock Prices, Business News

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...

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Fed Acts To Ease Strain On U.S. Economy

New York Times | Edmund L. Andrews | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, Credit Crisis, Cash Loans, Stock Prices, Central Bank, Treasury Securities, Recession, Federal Reserve, U.S. Recession, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Credit Crunch, Business News

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...

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