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Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY Fears of a so-called 'earnings recession' are still alive on Wall Street, but with profits coming in better than expected, there's still a small [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Will Santa Claus bring the gift of profit to Wall Street in the form of a year-end December rally? If prices at the gas pump [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY August hasn't been a sunny, relaxing time for investors in recent years. Will the ominous storm clouds that blanketed Wall Street in July kick [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY Show me the money! That's the message Wall Street is sending to CEOs this earnings season. With U.S. stocks at all-time highs and no [...]

Byline: Adam Shell Ah, summer. Thoughts of sandy beaches, sunny days and, um, summer stock market swoons. But July is an exception. It's known more for cool, refreshing 'ice stock [...]

Byline: Adam Shell There are no economic releases to worry about today, so what will Wall Street be worrying about instead? Many traders will be keeping a close eye on [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY Weibo, better known as China's answer to Twitter, was the big winner among five initial public offerings that made their debuts Thursday. Yet, it [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY First came the 'Greenspan put.' Then the 'Bernanke bounce.' Now stock prices on Wall Street are getting a lift from the 'Yellen Effect.' The [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY In the annual face-off between bull and bear, Wall Street's most optimistic prognosticator sees strong stock market momentum continuing in 2014, while the most [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY, Shares of airline stocks took off Tuesday after the U.S. government settled a lawsuit and agreed to allow American Airlines and US Airways to merge, [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY, Is the great stock market rally of 2013, which has been turbocharged by the Federal Reserve's easy-money policies, a boom to be savored -- or [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY If the year ended today, investors sitting on a gain in the Dow Jones industrial average of nearly 15% would be content, as that [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY The mood of the stock market, manic and upbeat for most of this year, might very well be transitioning to a more depressing, downbeat [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY Grab your calendar. Draw a circle around both Tuesday, June 18, and Wednesday, June 19. And jot down in bright red ink: 'Fed's next [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY new york Has the U.S. stock market's zeitgeist switched from an up-up-and-away mentality to a look-out-below mindset? That's the debate suddenly raging on Wall [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY On a day when stocks swooned on fresh fears out of Europe, three top Wall Street strategists, including one of its most bearish prognosticators, [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY The just-ended best January for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index since 1997 doesn't erase the fact that February is a not a great [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY The world's most-valuable company reports earnings today. So does a company that sells hamburgers and french fries around the globe. A high-end retailer that [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY NEW YORK If there's one X-factor most likely to determine the fate of investors in 2013, it's what lawmakers in Washington, D.C., do to [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY Investors curious as to how the stock market might react if the fiscal cliff is avoided should consider Monday's bullish action on Wall Street [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY Hurricane Sandy might have temporarily stopped trading. But history says the destructive storm likely won't have a long-lasting effect on stock prices. 'Hurricanes typically [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY It was the premature earnings release that went viral. The ink wasn't dry on Google's third-quarter earnings report. It was incomplete, not ready for [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY Small cracks in the stock market's bullish thesis are starting to emerge as investors weigh whether to keep buying or lock in profits after [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, @adamshell, USA TODAY Confidence breeds success, and success breeds confidence. It's true in sports. At work. And when it comes to the job-producing, income-generating economy, nothing gets [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY The 10% summer rally gave off good vibrations on Wall Street. But summer is over. The big question now is whether traders heading back to [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY When it comes to new highs on Wall Street, none garner the accolades, the bragging rights or the No. 1 billing in history books like [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY If the stock rally -- which has flashed signs of fatigue in recent days -- is to keep chugging along, investors must elevate their risk-taking [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Main Street bulls are fast becoming an endangered species. Despite the fact that the broad U.S. stock market is up 8.3% in 2012, only 22.2% [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY On April 3, weeks before May kicked off what historically has been the market's worst six-month stretch, Jeff Hirsch, editor of the Stock Trader's Almanac, [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY The Nasdaq, powered this time by iPad and iPhone maker Apple and not money-losing Internet companies, closed above 3000 on Tuesday for the first time [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Despite the historic price swings since August -- including Monday's 3.4% jump -- stocks have gone nowhere: The market has been trapped in a 10% [...]

Byline: Adam Shell and John Waggoner, USA TODAY After a steady stream of confidence-sapping news, investors and consumers welcomed slightly more upbeat data Thursday that suggest that the economy, while [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY The economy has hit a wall, and stock investors are hitting the sell button as Wall Street oddsmakers increase the chances that a recession will [...]

Byline: Adam Shell, USA TODAY Plunge! Rebound! Crash! Rally! Plunge again! That's been the depressing storyline of the stock market the past five trading days, a gut-wrenching, confidence-testing, wealth-destroying bout [...]

Byline: Gary Strauss, Matt Krantz and Adam Shell, USA TODAY Fear overwhelmed Wall Street again Wednesday as spooked investors pushed stocks to triple-digit losses for the third time in five [...]

Byline: Adam Shell Stocks have nearly doubled since the March 2009 bear market low, raising an all-too-familiar question: Is it too late to buy stocks and profit from the rally? [...]

Byline: Adam Shell NEW YORK -- Stocks soared on the first day of December, raising hopes that the final month of the year will live up to its reputation as [...]

Byline: Adam Shell NEW YORK -- Forget price-to-earnings ratios. Buy-and-sell decisions on Wall Street are increasingly being driven by power and politics and what voters will do at the polls. [...]

Byline: Adam Shell NEW YORK -- There is no sure thing on Wall Street. But making money in stocks on the first trading day of a new month is a [...]

Byline: Adam Shell NEW YORK -- Lower taxes. Shovel-ready projects. Handouts from Uncle Sam. Those all have been touted as ways to boost the sluggish economy. But former Federal Reserve [...]

Byline: Adam Shell NEW YORK -- Just because the Great Recession has been officially declared dead doesn't guarantee that stock prices will shoot straight up in the months ahead. Sure, [...]

Byline: Adam Shell NEW YORK -- If the market has one thing in its favor as second-quarter earnings-reporting season nears, it is this: After a nasty spring drop, stocks are [...]

Byline: Julie Schmit and Adam Shell BP's shares edged up 1% to $31.85 Wednesday even after it announced a series of steps that'll curb investor income and company growth. BP [...]

Byline: Adam Shell NEW YORK -- BP's stock has been gushing red ink as investors view the fallout from a leaking oil well through a barrel-half-empty prism. With BP's stock [...]

Byline: Adam Shell The straight-up trajectory of stocks that has ruled since the market low last March has given way to a choppy trading environment in which stocks rise and [...]

Byline: Adam Shell NEW YORK -- Wall Street is smitten again with shares of tech firms that make whiz-bang stuff such as smartphones, computer chips, wafer-thin laptop computers and nifty [...]

Byline: Adam Shell NEW YORK -- The stock market, which hit stall mode at the start of June after a giddy eight-week run, is now in full-fledged slump mode. The [...]

Byline: Adam Shell NEW YORK -- The black-and-blue Dow blue chips are finally back in the black for the year. Will they stay there? On March 9, the Dow Jones [...]

Byline: Adam Shell NEW YORK -- A spike in interest rates and resulting fears that higher borrowing costs will impede the economic recovery prompted investors Wednesday to push stock prices [...]

Byline: Adam Shell NEW YORK -- A sharp rise in yields on U.S. government bonds Wednesday knocked stocks down sharply as investors fretted about the potential drag on the economic [...]