Steve Ballmer's $2 billion offer for the Los Angeles Clippers — nearly four times the record sale for an NBA team — has experts puzzling over how the former Microsoft...
Barely half the U.S. population has more in emergency savings than in credit card debt, a sign of Americans' lingering financial troubles despite a convalescing economy, according to a new...
A record number of American women are "marrying down," tying the knot with a husband who is less educated than they are, according to a new study. Nearly 21% of...
It's Tuesday, so you're probably going to very productive at work today. Nearly 4 in 10 human-resource managers say employees' most productive day of the week is Tuesday, far more...
First came the Dow. Then the S&P; 500. And now the Nasdaq is reaching a milestone. The technology-laden Nasdaq composite index briefly jumped above 4,000 on Monday, the first time...
Tribune Co.'s long-running sojourn in bankruptcy shows no sign of ending soon. A federal judge said in a ruling Thursday that he won't hold a confirmation hearing on plans to...
The strain of deteriorating economic conditions and the failure of governments to contain the damage are raising fears that a new financial market meltdown may be unavoidable. The grim mood...
The stock market's sudden downturn over the last month has left shellshocked investors asking a disturbingly familiar question: What should I do now? Coming less than three years after stinging...
Hold the champagne. For the second anniversary of the bull market in stocks, a barrel of crude might be a better gift. As Wall Street marks two straight years of...
As stock markets skidded further Friday, regulators scrambled to explain the cause of Thursday's nearly 1,000-point midday dive in the Dow Jones industrial average. The Dow endured another roller-coaster ride...