James P. Miller

As U.S. stocks rose for a third straight week, with markets hitting their highest levels in months, Wall Street began to wonder if the nascent rally might turn out to...

Stock prices surged higher Thursday in a rally fueled by declining oil prices and a positive economic signal from the bond market. Stocks have now risen to the point where...

Stocks managed a tiny gain Wednesday, though reports of Middle East bombings touched off a late-session wave of selling. "Equity markets continue to consolidate following last week's run higher," said...

Stocks lost ground Tuesday after a downbeat forecast from high-volume luxury home builder Toll Brothers sent shock waves through the housing sector. "Home builders like Toll have been strong performers,...

For many investors the idea of buying and selling stocks based on a formula or a fixed set of criteria--a format known as quantitative, or "quant," investing--seems eccentric or worse....

Stocks moved solidly higher Wednesday, helped by renewed investor interest in technology stocks and a positive earnings report from media giant Time Warner. Investors, cheered by falling energy prices, were...

It would be easiest to describe the market's downturn Tuesday by simply saying, "The Fed raised interest rates, and stocks fell." But the evidence suggests otherwise. It appears that investors...

Stocks belly-flopped Thursday, after investors interpreted a weaker-than-expected manufacturing report as reason to worry even more about the economy's health. After declining steadily throughout the day, the Dow Jones industrial...

Stocks moved lower Wednesday, as disappointing quarterly results from Boeing and a lackluster forecast from Amazon.com helped keep the market off balance. The Dow Jones industrial average, which was up...

Stocks were unable to build Tuesday on Monday's burst of optimism, and instead resumed the downward drift that has characterized the market the entire month of October. Equity markets staged...