James P. Miller

Stocks dropped sharply for a second straight day Wednesday, tumbling to their lowest level in three months amid mounting concern over inflationary pressures. "The market is concluding that the Federal...

Stocks took an afternoon pratfall Tuesday after a Federal Reserve official's hawkish anti-inflation comments sparked investor fears that interest rates will keep rising. Equity markets had been modestly positive early...

Stocks rang up a solid advance Thursday, as investors, more confident about the economy or, perhaps, simply tired of playing it safe, displayed a newfound readiness to buy. For many,...

Stocks managed a modest gain Wednesday, but concerns over high energy costs, and their threat to the economy, continued to weigh on the market. The Dow Jones industrial average, after...

Stocks weakened Tuesday morning after The Conference Board research group released its consumer confidence index for September, which showed a nearly 20-point decline that was the biggest one-month drop since...

Stocks tried to mount an old-fashioned "relief rally" Monday, after Hurricane Rita proved less dangerous than feared, but then ran out of gas. After dropping more than 200 points last...

Wall Street staged a modest Rita Rally Thursday after the hurricane closing in on the Texas coast weakened, reducing odds that it would damage key regional oil rigs and refineries....

Hurricane Rita's wild winds haven't even reached the Gulf Coast, but they are already knocking down stocks on Wall Street. "There was no relief on Wall Street today," said A.G....

The Federal Reserve delivered an unwelcome "onward and upward" interest rate message Tuesday afternoon, and stocks promptly headed downward. As widely expected, a Fed committee bumped short-term interest rates up...

Fedspeak 101: Now you, too, can decipher Federal Reserve statements. After initially toying with the idea that the Fed might pause in its program of methodically hiking interest rates to...