Bank of New York Mellon

Last week's puzzling developments on the Street included: Bank of New York alienating its richest depositors; Microsoft and Google fighting like middle-schoolers; DirecTV's CFO making an embarrassing disclosure; and Netflix slowing down as it approached the millionth Canadian milestone.

The stock market has been on a tear over the past two years. With the major indexes hitting multi-year highs recently, the value pickings are slim. But one highlights five stocks that still have attractive prices in this rising market.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has revised its investment portfolio during the third quarter, buying up shares of Bank of New York Mellon while unloading its stake in Home Depot.

President Obama urged lawmakers to pass a $26 billion jobs bill that Democrats say would save the jobs of 160,000 teachers across the country, as well as 150,000 first-responders, including police officers and firefighters. Republicans blasted the plan as a hand-out to unions.

Wall Street "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg will ask several financial firms to strengthen so-called clawback provisions, but will not force them to recover bonuses paid at the height of the financial crisis, CNBC reported. Clawback provisions allow companies to reclaim compensation given to...

Banks such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. may have as long as 12 years to cut their stakes in private-equity units and hedge funds under the new financial reform bill, Bloomberg News reported. The time-frame in the bill, combined with provisions that would allow banks to apply for...

Some pros are aiming straight at the eye of the financial hurricane, buying into the besieged banks. Here's why: The uncertainty threatening them has dissipated, and banks will now start looking for new ways to profit from the new rules.