Wall Street

Juli Niemann, analyst at Smith, Moore and Company, explains how lower-than-expected first quarter earnings do not reflect the state of the recovery, and consumer confidence.

Standard & Poor's announced today it has placed the U.S. ratings outlook at negative. Joe Englehard with Capital Alpha Partners in Washington explains how that could affect U.S. borrowing in the future.

Standard & Poor's has reaffirmed the U.S.'s AAA sovereign credit rating, but placed the ratings outlook at negative. Sam Stovall with S&P Equity Research explains.

Felix Salmon of Reuters and CNBC's John Carney discuss debt and what bad things might happen if the U.S. government doesn't raise the debt ceiling.

Next in our series of video interviews from the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference: Simon Johnson, MIT economist and co-author of "13…

Law and economics professor William Black discusses why it has been so difficult to prosecute people involved in the 2008 financial crisis and regulate Wall Street.

The New York Stock Exchange has rejected a bid from the rival U.S. exchange, NASDAQ, saying it plans to merge with Deutsche Boerse.

Reviewing the week in Wall Street with Lizzie O'Leary from Bloomberg and Sudeep Reddy from the Wall Street Journal. This week: what happens if the government shuts down.