Stocks

Dow Jumps Up As Oil Prices Fall

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 08.08.2008 | Business


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 ...

Olympics-Related Stocks Plummet, China Feels The Burn

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...

Stocks fall on worries about financial sector

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...

Market Happy To Ignore Pessimism For A Day

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...

Oil Prices Drop On Predictions Of Lower Demand

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...

Oil Prices Drop After Storm Threat Eases

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...

Urban Outfitters Stock Success: Are Mall Hipsters Recession-Proof?

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....

Bad News, Greenspan's Pessimism Knocks Stocks Down

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...

Jim Cramer: Yes, The Market Has Bottomed

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...

Stocks surge higher, led by financial sector

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...

Why Some People Hate The Housing Rescue

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...

Dow Falls Almost 240 Points

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...

Only A Market Recovery Will Stop Short-Sellers: TheStreet Founder James J. Cramer

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...

Smart Advice for the HuffPost Investor: Is This the Time to Dump Stocks and Sit On The Sidelines (Part 2)?

Dan Solin | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business


Dan Solin

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.

Euro Higher Than Ever Against Dollar

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...

Democratic Presidencies Aren't Always Bad For Stocks

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...

Fannie Mae Bailout Pushes Stocks Up At Open

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...

The Fannie Effect: Financials Feeling The Hurt

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...

Ken Heebner, America's Hottest Investor

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...

GE Profit Falls 6 Percent: Time To Sell More Businesses

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...

Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae Woes Worry Stock Market

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...

Netflix Death Watch (Part 2)

Ron Galloway | Posted 07.03.2008 | Business


Ron Galloway

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.

Buffett's Brand Strategy: Putting Stock In Household Names

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...

What if the Lifeguard Can't Swim?

Michael Pento | Posted 05.08.2008 | Business


Michael Pento

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.

Smart Advice for the HuffPost Investor: Two Sacred Beliefs That Could Clobber Your Returns

Dan Solin | Posted 04.29.2008 | Business


Dan Solin

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.


 

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