What should we try next to stabilize the financial services industry? Economist and commentator Todd Buchholz suggests the answer might be letting a new player into the game.
Andy Brooks, chief trader at T. Rowe Price and Megan McCardle, editor for The Atlantic's Business Channel, join Bob Moon to see if they can find some meaning in another rough week on Wall Street.
Investors are looking for signs of life in the market as the Dow continues to fall. Has the market finally hit the bottom so it can rebound? Jeremy Hobson reports.
Many people look at the major stock market indices as leading economic indicators. But as Jeremy Hobson reports, the volatile stock markets aren't always indicative of what's going on in the economy.
Amid all the job losses, there's a lot of talk about how to ignite consumers spending. Kai Ryssdal speaks with Fortune Magazine editor Leigh Gallagher and Businessweek's chief economist Mike Mandel about whether we should be concerned about deflation as consumers wait for prices to fall to buy again.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average includes a number of companies whose stocks haven't exactly been stable — Bank of America and General Motors to name a couple. With all that volatility, is it really an accurate representation of the overall market? Jeremy Hobson reports.
The Treasury Department is bringing back the 7-year note to help with the rising deficit. It's also considering creating other unusual maturities. Why? Dan Grech reports.
Citigroup unveiled plans to use $36.5 billion of the $45 billion it got in bailout money on lending. The bulk of the money will go towards mortgage loans. Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.
A government plan to buy up banks' troubled assets appears to be in the works. But how do you determine a price to sell those holdings when no one's really sure what they're worth? Auctions might work, as Jeremy Hobson reports.
World leaders converged in Davos, Switzerland, this week for the World Economic Forum. But there was one notable absence — the United States. Kai Ryssdal speaks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene about the happenings in Davos.
