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Where Will Stocks Go Next?

(Aug. 11) -- With the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) down over 250 points Wednesday, and all the major indexes off about 2 percent, it's worth thinking about where the market is headed. Is this the start of the market crash many have been anticipating, or just another jarring bump in the rally's bumpy ascent from the...

Stocks Climb Again, Posting the Biggest Weekly Gain in a Year

Stocks closed broadly higher on thin volume Friday, helping the major averages to their best weekly performance in a year. The materials sector led the market's gains at the end of a holiday-shortened week as consumer staples and health care stocks lagged.

$2.6 Trillion Worth of Disasters

(Dec. 31) – If you've sipped at all from the certifiable torrent of retrospectives that have appeared in the past few weeks, you've been reminded why the 2000s were a period we'd all surely like to forget. This was a decade the started with a recession, terrorist attacks and two wars, then ended with a more severe...