Wall St. awaits another rally - Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:23:44 EST
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Stocks jump on day, week - Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:08:48 EST
Stocks rallied Friday, starting off the new month on the right foot, as investors welcomed Microsoft's bid for Yahoo and more talk of a bailout for the troubled bond insurer sector.

Here comes merger mania! - Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:18:14 EST
Get ready for merger mania 2008!

Microsoft bids $45 billion for Yahoo - Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:21:14 EST
Microsoft Corp. made an unsolicited $44.6 billion cash and stock bid for Yahoo on Friday, a deal that could shake up the competitive and lucrative market for online advertising.

Treasurys wild: Traders get mixed signals - Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:03:11 EST
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Alcoa, Chinalco buy Rio Tinto stake - Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:12:59 EST
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Bond crisis: Sovereign funds hold their bets - Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:28:41 EST
Deep-pocketed foreign wealth funds have been more than happy to bail out Wall Street by taking large stakes in important financial institutions that the funds believe cannot fail.

Oil prices fall $2 a barrel on job cuts - Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:57:49 EST
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OPEC leaves production unchanged - Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:21:50 EST
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Miners drive European stocks - Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:58:44 EST
Europe's leading exchanges opened higher, driven by gains in the mining sector after aluminium companies Chinalco and Alcoa (AMEX:AA.PR) (NYSE:AA) acquired a 12 pct stake in Rio Tinto, with an overnight rebound on Wall Street underpinning the advance.

Gold continues its strong run - Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:56:56 EST
Gold prices continued to skyrocket Thursday on the falling U.S. dollar, supply concerns and high world-wide demand.

Oil slips on downbeat economic reports - Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:55:35 EST
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Treasurys inch higher on new woe - Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:29:32 EST
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'It's going to be much worse' - Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:07:39 EST
You might expect Jim Rogers to be gloating a little bit. After all, the famed investor has been predicting a recession in the U.S. economy for months and shorting the shares of now-tanking Wall Street investment banks for even longer. And with fears of a recession sparking both a worldwide market sell-off and emergency action from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, Rogers again looks prescient - just as he has over the past few years as the China-driven commodities boom he predicted almost a decade ago began kicked into high gear. But when I reached him by phone in Singapore the other day there was little hint of celebration in his voice. Instead, he took a serious tone.

Another day of uncertainty for bond insurers - Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:25:43 EST
Wall Street spent yet another session Thursday trying to make sense of what will happen next in the bond insurer crisis.

How to make money on volatility - Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:58:02 EST
Wild swings have been the norm in the stock market lately - as you may have noticed - with the Dow Jones industrial average posting triple digit moves nearly every trading day since the beginning of the year.

Why munis are a buy now - Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:26:26 EST
Forget what you may have read in the newspaper about state budget problems or bond insurer meltdowns. This is a perfect time to be buying municipal bonds. The economy is slowing, the Federal Reserve is poised for more interest rate cuts (boosting bond prices), and a Democratic win in November would probably lead to higher taxes on the rich, thereby enhancing munis' tax advantages. Throw in munis' microscopic default rates, and you've got an ideal landing spot for investors weary of the stock market roller coaster.

Rocky market, smart strategies - Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:31:07 EST
Volatility. That's the one thing that seems predictable in today's stock market. Share prices are swinging up and down more violently than they have anytime in the past five years. And that seems likely to continue.

A plan for defensive investing - Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:53:59 EST
The outlook isn't as bad as many investors fear, and there are ways to keep your investing plan on track.

Oil stocks: Best picks for 2008 - Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:15:01 EST
It's not too late for investors to get in on the oil boom in 2008, analysts say, even with the near 30 percent runup in oil company stocks last year.