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Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said his country cut oil production in March because the market was oversupplied. Was this move an honest bid to a bid to expose the speculators and push prices back down, or an attempt to capitalize on the current instability to propel prices higher?

Sky-high oil and gas prices risk tipping the U.S. economy back into recession. But Washington isn't powerless when it comes to oil prices: Here are five things that the federal and state governments can do that would quickly reduce pain at the pump.

Some are convinced the precious metal will keep rising, others that it's tracing out a classic speculative bubble that's ready to burst. Nobody has a crystal ball, but an "agnostic" technical analysis of the charts provides some good clues about gold's future.

August is known as a quiet month for the stock market, as many institutional investors and traders take advantage of the waning summer to go on vacation. Trading volume dries up, and some large price swings can be attributed to the lack of liquidity, but this news about the concentrated nature of...

Jeff Lewis rose to fame as the obsessive compulsive house flipper who made hundreds of thousands of dollars per house speculating on high-end real estate in LA -- while the whole thing was chronicled on Bravo's hit show Flipping Out.And then the high stakes game of musical chairs that is high-end...

When times seemed good and the stock market was returning 10 percent annually, a silent handshake existed between investors and management teams -- as long as the company's stock price was rising, princely sums in executive compensation would be awarded without too much fuss. The perks and pet...

Isn't it great that gas prices are finally teetering on normal? Remember the horror movie last summer when parts of the country, especially in the south, saw prices inch toward $5 a gallon? Turns out Wall Street is to blame for all that pressure at the pump. Last night's 60 Minutes aired a segment...