Bill Barnhart

$3.43 11.8% Netflix Inc. stock climbed to $32.43. The nation's largest online movie-rental service boosted its first-quarter earnings estimate to 15 cents to 22 cents a share on an increase...

Investors facing the gruel of a soft economy enjoyed some spice this week from the kitchens of corporate America. On Monday, credit card giant Visa announced what could be the...

Despite current investor fixation on banks and other financial-services stocks, materials and energy producers on Monday continued to contribute the most positive February results in the stock market. Aluminum producer...

$0.74 6% Shares of Boston Scientific Corp. increased to $13.05. The second-biggest maker of heart devices said federal regulators cleared three new heart products, including two defibrillators. $6.36 8.9% Genentech...

The market for initial public offerings, like most other financial markets, has been in a funk since last fall. A proposed IPO this quarter by Visa Inc., the credit card...

There was nothing unusual about Thursday's stock market slump. That was the problem. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down nearly 143 points, at 12,284.30, one of six triple-digit moves...

Stocks closed lower Thursday, after a worse-than-expected report on business conditions in the mid-Atlantic region. News of a bulge in U.S. oil inventories sent oil stocks lower. The Dow Jones...

-$1.79 10.2% Shares of Career Education Corp. slipped to $15.71. The stock hit the lowest level since January 2002, a day after the Hoffman Estates-based company said some students face...

Stocks climbed out of a hole Wednesday, closing higher despite conflicting worries about inflation and economic growth. Advances by technology stocks, led by an 8 percent rally in the shares...

Wednesday's report of a larger-than-expected increase in the January consumer price index sparked talk of an inflation "scare" compounding the recession "scare" already on investors' minds. Competing evidence of higher...