Bill Barnhart

A downbeat quarterly report by Google late Thursday, following a weak report by Yahoo earlier in the week, could add pressure on technology stocks when trading opens Friday. Google posted...

Stocks fell in heavy trading Wednesday, despite the second aggressive cut in interest rates in nine days by the Federal Reserve. Traders cited fears of another round of multibillion-dollar losses...

If someone asks you, "Hey, how come the stock market fell Wednesday after the Federal Reserve's big rate cut?" the proper answer is, "What did you expect?" Since the Fed...

-$3.76 7.2% Allstate Corp. stock tumbled to $48.49. The stock slid a day after the Northbrook-based company, the nation's largest publicly traded home and auto insurer, reported fourth-quarter earnings that...

Stocks continued to advance Tuesday, after upbeat economic reports helped rid Wall Street of its recession-scare gloom, and traders remained confident that the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates Wednesday...

$10.55 18.1% Shares of Anixter International Inc. surged to $68.85. The stock of the Glenview-based firm rose the most since March 2000 after the distributor of communications and specialty wire...

Even if you're not conversant in corporate finance, there's an easy way to picture what's going on in the world of mergers and acquisitions. Think of what comes before, during...

$2.18 9.3% Shares of Alberto-Culver Co. jumped to $25.70. The Melrose Park-based maker of personal-care products said that excluding items it would have earned 29 cents a share in the...

Stocks rose broadly Monday, as traders looked for another cut in short-term interest rates Wednesday by the Federal Reserve. Financial stocks, including JPMorgan Chase, American Express and Citigroup, three components...

The eyes of the financial world, once again, are on the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee, the group of 10 government bankers who are scheduled to vote Tuesday and Wednesday...