Stock market

The markets hit a November high, with the key indexes up between 2 and 3 percent all day. Driven by news that the European Union may have a new plan to contain its debt crisis and record holiday retail sales over the weekend, investors came out of their tryptophan haze, saying "Buy!"

Iraq's stock market -- like the rest of the country -- prepares for life in 2012, after U.S. forces withdraw from the country.

On this week's show, Carl Richards, he's a certified financial planner and New York Times contributor, said that he often makes this suggestion to...

This final note on the way out. There was a brief rip in the economic space time continuum today. Don't know if you felt it. Long about mid-day,...

Now that the German and New York stock exchanges have tied the knot, it's time to discuss which entity is going to take a new name. Germans think...

The U.S. Labor Department this morning announced weekly jobless claims fell to 383,000, the lowest level in nearly three years....

Big news from the U.S. Labor Department today. The unemployment rate is down to 9 percent -- the lowest it's been in almost two years. At the same...

This morning's Wall Street Journal reports, the big manufacturer 3M says it will stop offering some kinds of health insurance because of the...

/**/ Sales of previously occupied homes fell in June; new unemployment benefit plans rose. Yet at this writing, Wall Street's jumping. What d...