The past year wasn’t kind to those with money in the Greek market, but Zambian investors are laughing all the way to the bank.

A graph of the stock market in 2011 looks like a contour map of Death Valley glued to the Himalayas. Despite huge swings, the S&P 500 index ended the year remarkably close to where it began.

Despite billion-dollar blockbusters, 2011 saw fewer people in movie theater seats. Are bad films to blame? Try tough competition.

Gerard Cassidy thinks today's NAR Pending Home Sales index numbers are a sign that 2012 is the year the housing market recovers.

This summer, the pension plans of government employees lost a staggering quarter-trillion-dollars in assets.

For a quiet week on the markets, there was still enough going on the global headlines to bring things down.

Two surveys out today have spenders and scholars upbeat about the health of the U.S. economy, for now at least.

We talk a lot about the stock market, but the real lifeblood of U.S. companies is the corporate bond market, which is twice as large.

Champagne as an economic indicator for 2012?

This year may go on record as the worst for new-home sales since anyone started keeping record.