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

The merciless arithmetic of investing in commodity producers is imposing itself on many a portfolio: Copper down a few percentage points; copper stocks cut in half. It’s nice when the swing works in your favour; when it’s conspiring against your wealth, it’s an agony not even the Marquis de Sade could dream up. The bad [...]

Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJ1U -1.93% slumped 245 points to 11,159. Futures on the Standard & Poor’s 500 index SP1U -2.15% dropped 29.30 points to 1,168.50 and those on the Nasdaq 100 ND1U -2.28% sank 54.50 points to 2,132.50. After the close of Wall Street trading on Friday, Standard & Poor’s downgraded [...]

  Canada’s benchmark stock index was showing moderate gains at midday Wednesday as continued gains in the price of oil offset a drop in the price of gold. The S&P/TSX composite index was ahead by 19 points, or 0.14 per cent, to 13,352, with the financials and energy sectors leading the advance. The price of [...]

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 [...]

John D. McKinnon reports on the financial crisis from Washington. President Bush’s Rose Garden appearance Saturday morning was meant to provide a reassuring picture of stability — the world’s most powerful leader, standing alongside finance ministers of the seven old-line industrial powers, their flags flapping proudly in the autumn breeze. But as recent financial shocks [...]

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 fell 456.3 to 8122.2 leading to a 21pc fall over the week after the index on Thursday suffered [...]

Smaller businesses are now starting to feel the effects of the financial crisis IN these tough times Philip Fairey is getting used to hearing about his clients “doing a runner”. But a few days ago was the first time he caught one of them in the act. “We got this message from someone who had [...]

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.