Bill Barnhart

As the month of November ends, investors have one thing to be happy about: The Atlantic hurricane season officially ends Friday. There's not much else to celebrate in a month...

Stocks jumped broadly higher Wednesday, giving the U.S. market its biggest two-day advance in more than four years, just two days after registering its first 10 percent decline in more...

The Futures Industry Association informed attendees at a meeting in Chicago that Tuesday's lunch speaker, Charles Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and a voting member of...

Stocks took it on the chin again late in Monday's session, as investors dumped shares across a broad range of companies. The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 237.44 points, or...

It's probably not wise to minimize the stock market's second big series of declines in just three months. There's no doubt the normally upbeat month of November has turned into...

Like Thanksgiving diners pulling at the turkey wishbone, investors have particular hopes at stake in the current debate about interest rates. The contest became more complicated Tuesday, after the Federal...

You've heard of the risks in getting what you wish for. As 2007 draws to a close, investors confront a similar peril. Generally speaking, expert forecasts for the economy and...

A day after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced plans for greater "transparency" by the nation's central bank, the stock market was socked late Thursday by fresh Fed-speak confusion. In...

Who says dividends are boring? The slide in stock prices that opened the normally upbeat month of November on Wall Street was triggered in part by an analyst for CIBC...

Investors have a hard time keeping up with volatility in financial markets. That may be because they're not looking out the window. On Monday, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, which...