Bill Barnhart

As the fourth-quarter financial reporting season winds down, the results and outlooks, as well as analysts' reactions to what companies are saying, do not make you want to rush to...

When Dow Jones revealed Monday that Altria Group, parent of cigarette purveyor Philip Morris, would be deleted from the Dow Jones industrial average in favor of Bank of America, I...

Stocks edged higher Monday, as investors overlooked fresh worries in financial stocks and focused on merger prospects among technology companies. Energy stocks were big winners, as oil prices moved higher...

Stocks on Thursday closed higher for the first time this week, in a roller-coaster session. Treasury bonds posted their biggest drop since 2004 after weak bidding at the Treasury's auction...

$4.81 17.1% Hub Group Inc. stock climbed to $32.87. The shares rose the most since July 2005 a day after the Downers Grove-based manager of freight shipments reported a fourth-quarter...

Until recently, talk of a recession has been just that: talk. Conventional economic data gave mixed readings. After last Friday's surprising report of job losses in January and Tuesday's dismal...

An attempted rally in stocks fizzled late Wednesday, as energy stocks swooned in the face of falling oil prices. A downbeat forecast of fourth-quarter results by department store operator Macy's...

Stocks lost ground Monday, as Wall Street ignored the Super Bowl rule. The rule suggests that the stock market will do well in a year after one of the original...

$3.04 5.8% Target Corp. stock jumped to $55.42. A gauge of retailers gained 3.4 percent in the Standard & Poor's 500 index, the most among 10 industries, after Deutsche Bank...

Friday's scheduled report by the Labor Department on job growth in January likely will prompt instant reactions in financial markets and on the presidential campaign trail. Active traders and political...