After the financial crisis, regulators and politicians said they were going to rewrite the rules to ensure that big banks don’t end up with huge losses that put a country’s and indeed the world’s financial system at risk. Allowing the big banks to make big bets was out. And yet, here we go again. On Friday, U.K. authorities charged …
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Wall Street Unfazed by Hurricane Irene
Sure, Hurricane Irene wasn’t the raging monster that forecasters and the media had warned about, but it still left billions of dollars in damage in its wake. Investors, however, have largely shrugged off the storm.
Shaken to the Core: What Now For Apple’s Stock?
Now that Steve Jobs is out as Apple CEO, how will Wall Street react?
Bank Stocks Are On the Upswing
Like the rest of the market, bank stocks have taken a beating in August, led by Bank of America, which is down 40% over the past four weeks. But investors waded back into the sector Wednesday, propelled by a surprisingly upbeat …
‘No’ Vote: Consumer Confidence A Drag On Markets
Consumers are issuing a big vote of "no confidence" in the economy — and that's holding back the stock market.
Insider Trading: Look Who’s Buying on Wall Street
Individual investors have learned this week that trying to predict the direction of the stock market is a fool's game. But there is one group of major league investors who may actually deserve our attention: CEOs and other …
Is This — Dare We Say It — A Bear Market?
Is the Stock Market Finally Bouncing Back?
The Federal Reserve provided some clarity to the financial markets, but investors aren't out of the woods yet.
Where Are Wall Street’s Value Investors?
Updated: 3:40 p.m.
Notwithstanding the modest bounce-back on Tuesday morning, Monday’s precipitous stock market decline probably won’t be the last of the ongoing meltdown, Wall Street seems to be saying.
One big reason for …
The Falling Stock Market’s Evil Twin: The Falling Dollar
A sinking dollar may be great for parts of the U.S. economy but it sure is tough on certain investors and retirees. Here's how to deal with the fallout.
Don’t Panic! For Most of Us, This Market Sell-off Is a Buying Opportunity
The dramatic stock market sell-off of the past two weeks, capped Thursday by a 512-point, 4.3% drop in the Dow, puts us in mind of a scene in Braveheart, when William Wallace (played by Mel Gibson) exhorts his troops to stay …
The Faulty Logic Behind the Market Sell-off
With the debt deal concluded, you might have expected global markets to have rallied. Instead, the Dow Jones industrial average closed down 266 points yesterday, or 2.2 percent.
The reason? There is a growing consensus among the …
