U.S. stocks finished the week mixed, after reaching new highs for the year earlier on the week.   Read More

U.S. stocks rallied for the second straight week, with all three major U.S. indices reaching a new intraday high for 2009 on Wednesday.   Read More

California is flirting with car insurance paid at the gas pump, so you’re actually paying based on how much of highway system you use—and how much carbon you pump into the air. Allstate, State Farm and Progressive are considering the idea.   Read More

Following are the day’s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Priceline.com and UPS popped while Electronic Arts and Fluor Market dropped.   Read More

Cautiously optimistic comments from two British banks this morning: HSBC earnings were better than expected and the tone of the report was upbeat, with bad loans down. Barclays said it expects loan losses to peak in the first quarter of 2010.    Read More

On a week where the Dow closes above 10K, gold tops $1,100 and unemployment hits 10.2%, the markets shrug off negative data to end the week up over 3%.   Read More

CEOs aren't just stuffed suits — they can be quite funny. A few of them set out to prove it last night at Caroline's. There were real-estate jokes, Bernie Madoff jokes — let's face it, this year gave them a lot to work with!   Read More

S&P Futures dropped about 10 points as the October Unemployment rate hit 10.2 percent, the highest since April 1983. While this will be the headline in the papers, bear in mind that unemployment in the 1982 recession peaked at 10.8 percent at the end of 1982.    Read More

The S&P 500 and NASDAQ Composite broke 7 months of consecutive gains to finish October in the red.  Here is a look at this month's market statistics.   Read More

The Dow fell 119.48 yesterday or 1.2% and many are talking about a correction in the markets that may be underway.  That hardly compares to the events that took place 80 years ago today.   Read More