Bill Barnhart

Stocks and corporate bonds have been resilient in the face of bad news. But analysts think they know which of these two components of a diversified portfolio is more vulnerable....

One of the most important decisions in decades has just been made by the Labor Department. The government this week eased the way for employers to place workers in retirement...

Speaking in Chicago on Tuesday, Alan Greenspan was asked to name his two favorite economic indicators. "Can I expand the two to maybe 400?" he replied. Few of the most...

Charles Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, suggested Monday that a rationale exists for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates next week for the second time...

Shares of Internet service Google, one of this fall's hottest stocks, advanced modestly in after-hours trading Thursday. The muted late-hour enthusiasm was a bit surprising in light of the company's...

Debate, as well as the wagering, intensified Wednesday about what the Federal Reserve's interest-rate policy committee will do at its next meeting Oct. 30-31. With another cable financial news channel,...

Stocks closed mostly higher Wednesday, reflecting upbeat profit reports and outlooks by technology companies Intel and Yahoo. Energy stocks continued to stoke investor optimism after the close of regular trading....

The drumbeat of bad news and troublesome forecasts about the housing and mortgage-finance industries won't end for a while. Stock analysts are casting anxious eyes across the current batch of...

As economists say at the University of Chicago, free markets work efficiently, except maybe when it came to predicting the 2007 winner of the Nobel Prize for economics. Last week,...

Stocks closed lower Monday, after banking giant Citigroup said it expects mortgage defaults to worsen as the year draws to a close. Citigroup posted a 57 percent plunge in third-quarter...