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Byline: Adam Shell NEW YORK -- Stocks on Tuesday erased the sizable 2% loss suffered a day earlier as oil prices fell to their lowest levels since May and investors [...]

Byline: Rajeev Dhir; BNN-Business News Network Duncan Stewart, CFA, is the founding partner, president, chief investment officer and lead portfolio manager at Duncan Stewart Asset Management. Mr. Stewart has worked [...]

Byline: JOHN HEINZL; jheinzl@globeandmail.com There is only one word to describe the latest batch of U.S. economic statistics: awful. So why did stocks take off yesterday? Because the figures were [...]

UP What a switch: U.S. indexes climb... Investors continued to dump energy shares and load up on financial stocks yesterday, for the second day in a row, in a dramatic [...]

Byline: PALASH R. GHOSH; Dow Jones Newswires Be it simply luck or good design, mid-capitalization stocks have outperformed large- and small-caps so far this year. In the year to June [...]

The Dow and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index were little changed on Monday on the final trading day of the second quarter as record oil prices lifted energy shares, […]

Byline: Ron Scherer Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor New York -- Investors are finding out that oil and stocks don't mix. As the price of oil has soared [...]

Once more, gloom is descending over Wall Street. After rallying for a few hopeful months this spring, the stock market is sinking to its lowest level in years. Cracks are […]

Byline: Matt Krantz U.S. stock investors who tried to protect their portfolios by diversifying globally now find themselves in a double world of hurt. While the U.S. market is threatening [...]

Stocks stalled Monday, ending mostly lower after rising oil prices and nagging worries about the financial sector gave investors little reason to buy. Disappointment that Saudi Arabia is not increasing […]

Byline: Matt Krantz The tired Wall Street cliche 'sell in May and go away' is looking pretty smart right now. The U.S. stock market has run into a renewed wave [...]

Byline: JOHN HEINZL; jheinzl@globeandmail.com As any seven-year-old can tell you by now, the main reason Canada's resource-rich stock market has gone nowhere but up the past few years is simple: [...]

Byline: Melissa Martin; BNN-Business News Network Jennifer Stevenson is executive vice-president, Qwest Investment Fund Management Ltd. Today, we look at the Qwest Energy Canadian Resource Class Fund. Fund stats MER3.48% [...]

DOWN Oil sinks on China fears Crude oil plunged on speculation demand will decline, after China said it will raise fuel prices starting today. Oil for July delivery fell $4.75 [...]

Wall Street sank Wednesday for the second consecutive day on renewed concerns about the financial sector and FedEx's warning that weakening demand and surging fuel costs would weigh on its […]

It was a mixed week for the stock market, which was constrained by unfavorable economic reports but nonetheless had some pockets of strength. On Friday, the Labor Department reported that […]

Byline: Matt Krantz Oil prices surged again Wednesday, rattling investors and prompting them to push stocks down to their lowest levels since April. Worried higher inflation will crimp consumers and [...]

(Down) Canadian stocks decline, paced by Bombardier Bombardier Inc. dropped the most since Jan. 21, falling 6.3 per cent after being downgraded to 'neutral' from 'overweight' by Joseph Nadol at [...]

Wall Street suffered its worst losses in more than two months on Friday after crude oil prices spiked over $138, an increase of nearly $11, and the unemployment rate rose […]

Wall Street closed out a winning week with a narrowly mixed performance Friday after the government reported that Americans' spending rose in April to keep pace with rising costs. Investors […]

Byline: ANGELA BARNES; INVESTMENT REPORTER The S&P/TSX composite index is one of a select few stock markets showing a year-to-date gain. Only a handful of other markets scattered around the [...]

Byline: John Waggoner Most mutual funds have a special place for small investors to go. It's called Someplace Else. But a few funds do let you start small, and if [...]

Wall Street retreated Tuesday after the aluminum producer Alcoa and the chip maker Advanced Micro Devices issued disappointing reports and the Federal Reserve voiced concerns about the slumping economy. Stocks […]

Byline: Staff, Reuters, Bloomberg SHANGHAI -- Millions of Chinese investors, many of whom flocked to the stock market over the past two year amid an economic boom and state reforms, [...]

Byline: JAMES HOOKWAY; Nguyen Anh Thu contributed to this article HANOI -- Vietnam is trying to unshackle its fast-growing economy from the sliding U.S. dollar, a tactic that might stem [...]

With the Dow Jones industrial average up slightly more than 21 points by the end of trading Monday on the New York Stock Exchange, it may have looked like a […]

Renewed anxiety about the availability of bank loans -- and fears that the Federal Reserve may be unable to curb the credit slump -- sent shares down sharply on Thursday. […]

Signs that two embattled bond insurance companies are getting close to restoring their reputations and credit ratings bolstered stocks on Monday. The credit-rating firm Standard & Poor's helped incite a […]

European stocks rose on Monday on speculation about a new investment in the banking sector. Asian markets were mixed, and United States markets were closed for Washington's Birthday. Britain's benchmark […]

Byline: RICHARD BLACKWELL Jittery investors, worried about plunging stock prices, yanked their money out of equity mutual funds in January. New numbers from the Investment Funds Institute of Canada showed [...]

Wall Street retreated Thursday after the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, forecast a 'sluggish' economy until later in the year and more mortgage-related losses at banks. The […]

Byline: SHIRLEY WON; FUNDS REPORTER Hedge fund manager Derek Webb expects to be a 'roaring bull' once North American stock markets find a bottom later this year. 'The market is [...]

Stocks plummeted on Wall Street on Tuesday after a business survey provided another strong signal that the United States might be in the early stages of a recession. The Dow […]

Thursday had all the ingredients for a bearish day on Wall Street. A government report showed inflation on the rise and consumers cutting back. New unemployment claims spiked. And the […]

This week, investors were bracing for Black Tuesday. Instead, they got Whiplash Wednesday. A day after the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates, averting a nasty nose dive in the market, […]

The stock market fell sharply to its lowest level in nearly a year Tuesday after Citigroup announced a large quarterly loss and an economic report offered more evidence that consumers […]

It was another dismal week for the stock market, despite a short-lived rally on Thursday after Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, signaled that the Fed is ready to […]

The brokers' customers did reasonably well. The brokers did not. That is not the usual way of Wall Street. Two-thirds of a century ago, a best seller asked, 'Where are […]

Byline: ROB CARRICK So, how did that global diversification work out for you this year? Like #%@, right? The S&P 500 stock index, the benchmark for the U.S. market, was [...]

Stock markets surged Friday on reports of a possible foreign investment in Merrill Lynch and an uptick in consumer spending. But even as economists raised growth estimates for the fourth […]

Byline: ALLAN ROBINSON Arise Technologies: Yesterday's close $2.03, up 15cents Arise Technologies Corp., a solar energy technology company, will begin trading today on the S&P/TSX after being delisted from the [...]

Byline: STUART WEINBERG; Dow Jones Newswires Money manager Peter Hodson pays close attention to the valuation gap between the S&P Growth Index and the S&P Value Index. And right now, [...]

It was a dismal week for the stock market, despite an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve and concerted action by the Fed and other central banks to ease […]

Stocks finished another volatile session mixed on Thursday after a spike in wholesale prices touched off inflation concerns and partly overshadowed a strong increase in retail sales last month. Despite […]

In the last couple of weeks, Wall Street grew hopeful that the Federal Reserve was poised to ease the tight credit market with an aggressive intervention. Tuesday, investors reacted as […]

Wall Street paused from its big rally yesterday, with shares closing narrowly mixed after the government's November labor report showed tepid job growth as well as a pickup in inflation. […]

Byline: DAVID PARKINSON When it comes to one-day rallies, the Canadian stock market has shown a distinct lack of flair in recent months compared with its U.S. counterpart. And that's [...]

Byline: ANGELA BARNES; INVESTMENT REPORTER The U.S. stock market has been a laggard this year among global markets but should come into its own next year, according to UBS Securities [...]

Shares of financial companies stumbled yesterday in the aftermath of the shake-up at Citigroup, sending the stock markets down and leaving investors on edge about further troubles in the credit […]

Stocks pulled back sharply yesterday as news that major United States banks will set up a fund to help bail out the credit markets stirred concerns about bad debt. Oil […]