What's Really Behind the Stock Market Rally?
So far, the stock market has avoided a spring slump like it experienced during the past three years, and some market watchers credit that to one clever UMass graduate student.
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Uncertainty Drives Down Confidence in Eurozone Economy
Confidence in the eurozone's economy worsened in March, falling after four straight months of gains and suggesting a hard route out of recession, fresh data show.
5 Foreign Stocks You Can Snap Up at Bargain-Basement Prices
when a country's stock market gets crushed due to wider economic concerns, some promising often stocks get unfairly punished. Here are five foreign companies whose shares are trading now at attractive prices, along with explanations for why they're such bargains.
Midday Report: Is the Stock Market Due for a Correction?
U.S. stocks spiraled downward in a late-day frenzied sell-off Monday. European markets followed their cue and sold off sharply early Tuesday. CNNMoney's Fear & Greed Index tumbled into neutral -- a level it hasn't touched in two months. Wall Street asks: Is a stock market correction coming?
Stocks Edge Higher Despite Monti Shocker; McDonald's Boosts Dow
Stocks inched higher on Wall Street Monday after a November sales report at McDonald's helped offset concerns about the surprise resignation of Italy's prime minister, Mario Monti, who has been credited with restoring confidence in Italy's economy.
U.S. Stocks Open Mixed After Italy's Leader Unexpectedly Quits
Stocks are opening mixed on Wall Street after the surprise resignation of Italy's prime minister sent a jolt through European markets. The Dow Jones industrial average inched up, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index was down a fraction.
Markets Hold Their Breath In Fear of Disappointment from Draghi
Longer-dated Spanish government bond yields fell and German debt sold off on Thursday with expectations high that the European Central Bank will detail plans to buy struggling eurozone countries' debt to curb the bloc's long-running debt crisis.
Europe Teeters on the Edge of Recession
Europe is edging closer to recession, dragged down by the crippling debt problems of the 17-country eurozone, official figures showed Tuesday: The economies of both the eurozone and the full EU shrank by 0.2% in the second quarter, after a flat first quarter.
S&P Closes Over 1,400 for First Time in 3 Months
It's been a day of milestones for the stock market. Stronger corporate earnings reports and expectations that central banks will act to support the economy powered the Standard & Poor's 500 index past 1,400 for the first time in three months.
European Central Bank Cuts Rates to New Low to Help Economy
The European Central Bank has cut its key interest rate by a quarter percentage point to a record low of 0.75% to boost a eurozone economy weighed down by the continent's crisis over too much government debt.
Stock Market Cuts Its Losses with a Late Rally
A late recovery on Wall Street wiped out most of the stock market's losses Thursday, leaving the Dow Jones industrial average down just 25 points. The Dow had been down as much as 177 points but came back sharply at the end of the day.
U.S. Employers Added Just 69,000 Jobs in May, Fewest in a Year
U.S. employers created only 69,000 jobs in May, the fewest in a year, and the unemployment rate ticked up. The dismal jobs data will fan fears that the economy is sputtering. But it could lead the Fed to take further steps to help it.
Facebook, Week Two: Fortunes Made and Fortunes Lost (Mostly Lost)
The ongoing saga of Facebook's post-IPO tumble is a classic, Greek-style tragedy of hubris, epic overreach, and equally epic failure, and the media can't get enough of it -- even though large chunks of it are essentially fictional.
Economically, What Happens in Europe Doesn't Stay in Europe
Sunday's elections in France and Greece were a firm vote against austerity, and regardless of the merits of either side of the debate, that means the future of the eurozone is again in doubt. Here's why the bond markets care so much -- and why you should, too.
Friday the 13th's Worst Economic Disasters: Nightmares on Wall St.
Forget black cats, broken mirrors and unstoppable psychopaths in hockey masks -- on Friday the 13th, the biggest terrors sometimes hit our wallets. No, the Great Crash of 1929 didn't start on a Friday, but a fair number of financial disasters did.