Bill Barnhart

The hottest area of investment research these days is behavioral finance, understanding how people make investment decisions. It's not a pretty picture. I'm not kidding. In his new book, "Your...

Stocks sank hard Wednesday, weighed down by old fears and some new ones. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 360.92 points, or 2.6 percent, to 13,300.02. All 30 of the...

Finance 101 teaches that in the long run it shouldn't matter whether a company finances operations with debt or equity. Like many theories, this one is dangerous. In the long...

Chances for a traditional year-end rally look good this year. But maybe not for the stocks you own. Since 2003, broad stock rallies in October and November contributed to the...

Treasury securities rallied Thursday, as stocks sank on the day after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates. Renewed fears of a credit crunch prompted buying of safe-haven Treasuries. Two-year Treasury...

Stocks fell hard Thursday to open what has been the traditional year-end rally period, as fresh doubts about the health of major banks spooked investors. The Dow Jones industrial average...

Once again, my preferred indicator of Federal Reserve policy is back in play. On Wednesday the Federal Reserve's interest-rate policy committee cut its interest rate target for the second time...

Stocks advanced Wednesday after the Federal Reserve cut its short-term interest rate target by a quarter percentage point, as expected, but hinted that a third straight cut at its next...

Investors like the idea of another interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve. The Fed probably will deliver on Wednesday. But Michael Moskow, the recently retired president of the Federal...

My favorite epistemology guru, Donald Rumsfeld, taught us there are things we know, things we don't know, things we know we don't know and things we don't know we don't...