Laurie Cohen

Here`s an easy way to make $33 an hour: Stand in the Nasdaq-100 futures-trading pit at the Chicago Board of Trade. No trading required. There`s a catch, of course. To...

A Southwest Side businessman whose decision to run for Cook County clerk threw a wild card into the race has donated thousands of dollars to community groups while fostering a...

Despite prospects for record industry profits this year, savings and loan executives gathering in Dallas Sunday for their annual convention are meeting under a cloud. Eclipsing the bright outlook for...

Arthur Andersen & Co., under fire for allegedly taking inadequate steps to end the check-kiting scheme of E.F. Hutton & Co., Thursday presented a list of other brokerage firms that...

Hurricane Gloria`s descent on New York forced the New York Stock Exchange to shut down Friday and triggered a nationwide halt in the trading of stocks and related securities at...

The U.S. Labor Department is investigating John Giura, a former high-ranking partner in the Chicago investment advisory firm of Stein Roe & Farnham, for allegedly making kickbacks to officials of...

Whether the dollar rises or falls is critically important to world trade and the U.S. economy. But from a trader`s viewpoint last week, the dollar`s fluctuations looked like a game...

THIRTY-FIVE persons, eight of them women, were arrested Tuesday as 150 disgruntled farmers demonstrated in downtown Chicago for the second day to protest trading practices in farm commodities on the...