NEW YORK — Wall Street has rebounded sharply as a surge in the dollar and a resulting drop in oil prices eased some of investors' worries about ...
AFP | Posted 08.08.2008 | Business
SHANGHAI (AFP) - Chinese share prices plummeted 4.47 percent on Friday as investors dumped Olympics-related stocks just hours before the opening of th...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 08.07.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street tumbled Thursday as further troubles in the financial sector, higher unemployment and lackluster retail sales touched off...
AP | JOE BEL BRUNO | Posted 08.05.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — An already soaring Wall Street extended its advance Tuesday after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged and assuaged some...
AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 08.05.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Oil traders sent crude prices tumbling as low as $118 a barrel Tuesday on the growing belief that a U.S. economic slowdown and high e...
AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 08.04.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Oil prices plunged to a three-month low Monday, briefly tumbling below $120 a barrel in another huge sell-off after Tropical Storm Ed...
Clusterstock | Corey Lorinsky | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business
Citi loves Urban Outfitters (URBN) and why not? The stock has nearly doubled over the past 52-weeks, and the company has defied the consumer slowdown....
AP, CNBC | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan speculated during an interview with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo that the economy still had farther down to g...
CNBC | Tom Brennan | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business
If you thought you heard Cramer call a bottom during Tuesday's Mad Money, you were right. "It smells to me like something, in fact many things," he s...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 07.30.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street soared for the second straight day Wednesday, rallying in the last hour of trading after a rebound in financial stocks an...
Dealbreaker | John Carney | Posted 07.28.2008 | Business
Over the weekend the Senate overwhelmingly passed a the mortgage bailout bill that includes a government rescue plan for mortgage finance giants Fanni...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 07.28.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street again surrendered to investors' anxiety about the financial sector Monday, sending the Dow Jones industrials down 240 poi...
New York Magazine | James J. Cramer | Posted 07.18.2008 | Business
If a couple of hedge funds wanted to destroy Lehman Brothers, just wipe the company off the face of the Earth, no matter how storied and how well mana...
Dan Solin | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business
Acting rashly out of panic is far more likely to cause harm than letting those feelings pass and reflecting carefully. Dumping stocks in bad times is probably the worst investment decision you can make.
New York Times | David Jolly | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business
PARIS -- Financial stocks were pushed lower Tuesday in Asia and Europe and the euro hit a record against the dollar as new concerns about the global f...
MarketWatch | Mark Hulbert | Posted 07.14.2008 | Business
ANNANDALE, Va. (MarketWatch) -- Here is today's investment pop quiz: Does the stock market perform better during Democratic or Republican presidencies...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 07.14.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street extended its slump into yet another week Monday as investors worried that even a safety net set up for mortgage financier...
DealBook | Posted 07.11.2008 | Business
Jitters about the solvency of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-sponsored mortgage financing companies, took a big toll on financial-industry...
Fortune.com | Jon Birger | Posted 07.11.2008 | Business
(Fortune Magazine) -- The best mutual fund manager around - a.k.a. Ken Heebner of Capital Growth Management - looks restless. He is sitting in a confe...
AP | STEPHEN SINGER | Posted 07.11.2008 | Business
HARTFORD, Conn. — General Electric Co. reverted to form with no big surprises in its latest earnings report, and investors shocked by an unexpec...
AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 07.07.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street lost more ground in extremely volatile trading Monday, as investors recoiled at a cautious economic outlook from a Federa...
Ron Galloway | Posted 07.03.2008 | Business
There is just nothing special about the Netflix set-top box. Netflix basically owns the DVD rental by mail business, but in the realm of digital delivery it is just one player amongst others.
Washington Post | Tomoeh Murakami Tse and Frank Ahrens | Posted 06.01.2008 | Business
From his growing list of acquisitions, Warren E. Buffett seems to be investing like the world's richest 10-year-old boy, if that boy lived in 1955 Ame...
Michael Pento | Posted 05.08.2008 | Business
Yesterday's earnings report from government sponsored Fannie Mae should cause investors to question whether the very entity charged with saving the real estate market will actually need to be rescued itself.
Dan Solin | Posted 04.29.2008 | Business
I challenge two sacred beliefs: Actively managed funds will outperform index funds in a bear market and your portfolio should become more conservative as you age.
John McCain was widely ridiculed several weeks ago for fielding reporter's questions...
With just ninety days left in the election it's come down to...
The Justice Department investigation into the firings of nine U.S. attorneys has...
A federal grand jury has subpoenaed several former senior...
Love her or hate her, you've gotta hand it to Paris...
Senator Obama on Tuesday said of the McBush...
BEIJING — A charter airplane carrying the White House press corps was detained for...
NEW YORK — Scarlett Johansson can laugh about it now,...
**UPDATE** The "I Am Rich" app has been removed from the app store. Silicon...
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart takes a look at offshore drilling...
Only the wildly hypocritical McCain could have made...
I'm not going to...
Q: Most people are really thrilled when they announce their daughter's engagement.
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 08.08.2008 | Business