Stocks

Really, it’s just an informed guess about how high or low a stock will go.

There’s a dance called earnings season that happens in the corporate world every three months. Public companies are required to open their books and add up all those debits and credits so that investors, analysts, and the media can comb through their financial statements. President Donald Trump on Friday said he’s asked the Securities and […]

It’s been a rough day for Monsanto, the maker of the weedkiller Roundup. On Friday a jury awarded a California groundskeeper $289.2 million, concluding that exposure to Roundup caused his cancer. On Monday stock in Bayer, the company that acquired Monsanto earlier this year, tumbled 10 percent. Click the audio player above to hear the […]

Big investment groups are scouring the market for companies whose stock they think could be worth more.

U.S. Rep. Chris Collins of New York was arrested and charged this week with allegedly passing on information he learned as a board member of a Australian pharmaceutical company to family members who quickly sold their stock to avoid big losses. Collins, like about of half of his colleagues in Congress, owns stock in publicly […]

The company is weathering growing pains and may retreat from the stock market spotlight.

Buybacks among S&P 500 companies are projected to hit $1 trillion this year.

Economics students in the U.K. led the charge to include lessons from the financial collapse in university curricula.

"I think it's up to our generation to fix the mistakes that we've made," Arun Muralidhar, founder of MCube Investment Technologies and co-author of "Rethinking Pension Reform," told us.

Our listener asks which economic statistics are the best predictors of future economic performance.