NEW YORK — The misery worsened on Wall Street Tuesday, with stocks piling on losses late in the session and bringing the two-day decline in the ...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 10.06.2008 | Business
For the first time since October of 2004, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped below the 10,000-point mark. It has dropped as many as 700 poin...
David Goldstein | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 504.48 points today, at 10917.51. That's only 329.92 points higher than where it stood on January 20, 20...
AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 08.19.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street fell sharply for a second straight session Tuesday after a hefty jump in wholesale inflation and a drop in new home const...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 08.08.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street rebounded smartly Friday, shooting higher as a surge in the dollar and another plunge in oil prices eased some of investo...
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 | TIM PARADIS | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existi...
Crossing Wall Street | Eddy Elfenbein | Posted 06.26.2008 | Business
The Dow closed at 11,453.42 which means the index is now in the red for the millennium. The Dow closed December 31, 1999 at 11,497.12. Of course, tha...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 03.20.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street capped a week of remarkable volatility with a big advance Thursday that left stocks higher for the week but didn't silenc...
236.com | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business
Economic meltdown looms, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is doing what he does best: lowering interest rates. At least, that's what financia...
Reuters | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business
The Federal Reserve slashed a key U.S. interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point Tuesday, a substantial cut but smaller than many in finan...
Jamie Court | Posted 02.11.2008 | Business
What do banks and oil companies have in common? Profits from speculative, virtual activity, not real production. Oil and gasoline are both commodities pegged at artificially high values, leaps and bounds above actual production costs.
AP | Madlen Read | Posted 12.17.2007 | Business
Wall Street extended last week's losses Monday as investors remained concerned about flagging growth and rising prices, and were skeptical that a spec...
AP | Joe Bel Bruno | Posted 12.12.2007 | Business
Wall Street finished only slightly higher in an erratic session on Wednesday as investors remained unconvinced by a Federal Reserve plan to work with ...
AP | Joe Bel Bruno | Posted 12.05.2007 | Business
Wall Street rallied Wednesday after new data showed the U.S. economy is in good shape and that another interest rate cut is still a possibility. The D...
AP | Joe Bel Bruno | Posted 12.03.2007 | Business
Wall Street tumbled Monday, led by financial services stocks, on concerns that the U.S. economy's expansion will erode amid troubles in the mortgage i...
AP | Madlen Read | Posted 11.28.2007 | Business
Wall Street jumped in early trading Wednesday, driving the Dow Jones industrials up more than 100 points after a top Federal Reserve official hinted t...
AP | Madlen Read | Posted 11.21.2007 | Business
Wall Street plunged in early trading Wednesday, finding little to placate its worries about the wilting mortgage market ahead of Thanksgiving. The Dow...
AP | LAUREN VILLAGRAN | Posted 11.13.2007 | Business
Wall Street shot higher Tuesday, lifting the Dow Jones industrials nearly 320 points after reassuring news from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Wal-Mart ...
AP | Tim Paradis | Posted 10.19.2007 | Business
The Dow Jones industrial average dropped more than 360 points Friday -- the 20th anniversary of the Black Monday crash -- as lackluster corporate earn...
AP | Joe Bel Bruno | Posted 10.09.2007 | Business
Wall Street advanced sharply Tuesday as investors interpreted minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting as indicating the central bank is ready ...
AP | Lauren Villagran | Posted 10.02.2007 | Business
U.S. stock futures rose Tuesday as investors appeared poised to extend a rally that sent the Dow Jones industrial average back above 14,000 and to a r...
The Street | Robert Holmes | Posted 09.21.2007 | Business
Stocks in New York rose for the third time in four sessions Friday, as strong profit reports after the last close brought buyers back into the market....
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AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 10.07.2008 | Business