The Stock Market: The Stock Market Crash in the Stock Market

U.S. stock market futures dropped Thursday as investors showed little appetite for extending the previous session’s modest gains, with earnings from General Motors Co. and the latest figures on weekly jobless claims to come.Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 48 points to 11770 and Standard & Poor’s 500 index futures were down 6.50 [...]

The S&P 500 triggered a scary technical signal — a head and shoulders pattern in the chart — leaving investors to wonder if it’s the sign of more selling to come — or just a head fake. The so-called head and shoulders pattern is formed when the chart pattern shows three rallies, with the middle [...]

Stocks are continuing to slide in early trading on worries over the strength of the U.S. economic recovery. The economic data released in the past few days indicates that the U.S. economy is slowing down. Stocks are also falling on worries that rating agencies will downgrade U.S. triple-A credit rating despite a resolution on the [...]

Stock Market: Stock buybacks: That’s what most companies do when they buy their own shares. But how you can avoid the trap. FORTUNE — In 2006 and 2007 timber giant Weyerhaeuser (WY) conducted one of the biggest share buybacks in its history. It unleashed $800 million to purchase its shares, which were dancing near an [...]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — After spending two months focused largely on the state of the U.S. economy, investors will get a chance to turn their eyes back to Corporate America this week. Several key companies will report their results for the second quarter this week, with investors getting profit reports from Dow members Alcoa (AA, [...]

Tips to Sell Shares in the Stock Market. If you keep the restaurant going, it will probably make at least $75,000 this year — you know that from your history with the business. Therefore, you can think of the restaurant as an investment that will pay out something like $75,000 in interest every year.

Ten tips to help you get started on the right foot investing in the stock market… Educate yourself about the market ~ Do your homework and learn all you can before you start deciding where to invest your hard-earned money. Look at the history of the stocks you’re considering and learn to read a prospectus.

WASHINGTON — President Bush and the world’s financial leaders staged repeated displays of unity Saturday to combat an unfolding credit crisis, hoping to calm investors whose panic has spread despite bold and accelerating government action. While there were no concrete offers of new moves made on Saturday, Mr. Bush pledged anew that his administration was [...]

US stock markets have suffered their worst week on record following another torrid day of trading despite growing hopes that the government could step in to guarantee bank deposits and lending between financial institutions.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average capped the worst week in its 112-year history with its most volatile day ever, as hopes for a major international bank-rescue plan were overwhelmed at day’s end by another wave of selling. Some investors who normally would be jumping to buy beaten-down stocks after a 22% drop over eight trading [...]