Bill Barnhart

-$0.86 23.1% 3Com Corp. stock sank to $2.87. The shares fell the most since December 2000 after Bain Capital LLC's pending $2.2 billion purchase of the company was thrown into...

$1.13 5.1% OfficeMax Inc. stock advanced to $23.27. The Naperville-based office-supplies retailer reported 25 percent more fourth-quarter profit than analysts estimated after the company lowered expenses. $0.98 5.4% Shares of...

Stocks closed mostly higher in moderate trading Tuesday, although major stock indexes retreated from a healthy rally early in the session to close slightly lower. The Dow Jones industrial average...

With stock prices and credit market turmoil appearing to stabilize, at least momentarily, from Wall Street's volatile New Year's debut, anxious investors have found a new worry: inflation. Crude oil...

Federal Reserve officials are wrestling with a chicken-and-egg problem. Must falling prices for fixed-income securities, now roiling global credit markets, stabilize before prices in the U.S. housing market, matching would-be...

$2.13 15.6% Acco Brands Corp. stock jumped to $15.80. The Lincolnshire-based maker of office products such as staples and paper shredders said it earned 66 cents a share in the...

Stocks advanced broadly Wednesday, after the government reported stronger-than-expected retail sales in January and Applied Materials, a maker of equipment used to manufacture semiconductors, issued an upbeat forecast. The Dow...

It's Valentine's Day. Here's how an investment analyst can tell. - Sugar and cocoa futures are up. Indeed, the two commodities of love have been among the best bets investors...

Stocks rallied Tuesday, after megabuck investor Warren Buffett proposed to stand behind $800 billion of municipal bonds insured by three troubled insurance companies. Investors cheered the Buffett proposal as a...

$2.43 3% Boeing Co. stock rose to $83.56. The shares posted the biggest gain in the Dow Jones industrial average after the Chicago-based planemaker said it was reserving spots in...