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

U.S. President Barack Obama is to meet Wednesday with senior congressional lawmakers for budget talks, the White House says. The meeting was scheduled to start at 2:50 p.m. ET. White House spokesman Jay Carney also signaled a position shift by Obama in a bid to resolve the impasse that has less than two weeks to [...]

North American stocks wavered in and out of positive territory in early trading Wednesday on hopes of a possible deal to resolve the U.S. debt-ceiling crisis, as well as strong corporate earnings south of the border. The benchmark S&P/TSX composite index was up 6.37 points, or 0.05%, to 13,339.29. shortly after markets opened. While gold [...]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Fear is running high in the bond market. Treasury prices began the week sharply higher, sending the benchmark 10-year yield below 3% for the first time since June 27. “Being under 3% means a fear trade — we need to get back to at least 3% to have more confidence,” said [...]

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, [...]

Stock Prices in Stock Market. Let’s say that a new corporation is created and in its IPO it raises $20 million by selling one million shares for $20 a share. The corporation buys its equipment and hires its employees with that money. In the first year, when all the income and expenses are added up, [...]

­The stock market appears in the news every day. You hear about it any time it reaches a new high or a new low, and you also hear about it daily in statements like “The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 2 percent today, with advances leading declines by a margin of…” Obviously, stocks and the [...]

The following is President Bush’s statement Saturday on the financial crisis, as released by the White House. He spoke in the Rose Garden after meeting with financial ministers from the G-7 nations: Thank you all very much. Good morning. [Treasury] Secretary [Henry] Paulson, Secretary [of State Condoleezza] Rice and I just had a productive discussion [...]

TORONTO (Reuters) – The main index of the Toronto Stock Exchange plunged almost 5 percent on Thursday as mounting gloom over the state of the economy and the U.S. financial sector sent investors fleeing the market in a broad rout. The financial sector was the biggest drag on the benchmark, sliding 7.74 percent. The energy [...]

Stock Markets fall on fears about world crisis – expectations mount for response. Global fears about the financial crisis deepened on Friday as stock markets the world over fell sharply and government officials scrambled to contain the damage during this stock market crash. Expectations for a coordinated response grew while the world’s finance ministers and [...]