Markets up? Wave goodbye to cheap gas

Aug 15, 2011
The price of oil jumped more than two-and-a-half percent today to more than $87 a barrel. The rally in shares on Wall Street, and a report that ...

Why ban short selling?

Aug 12, 2011
Italy, France, Spain and Belgium banned short selling today. They want to calm the markets down, and they figure "the shorts," as they're called,...

A.I.

Aug 12, 2011
The stock market's fastest electronic firms boosted trading threefold during the rout of August 1-10, Bloomberg reports. Gary Wedbush, executive...

Putting the market in its place

Aug 12, 2011
John Hailer, president of Natixis Asset Management, tells Marketplace's Heidi Moore he doesn't think the stock market is an indicator of the U.S....

For public good, not for profit.

Banks are jumpin' and the market is high

Aug 12, 2011
Bank of America, Citi, Wells, RBS, up, up, UP! Shares in banking companies sashayed higher today ... and no-one could really explain why. Many o...

Shooting the shorts (again)

Aug 12, 2011
You think the markets are going wild in the US? Things are so bad in Turkey, Greece and South Korea that regulators have curbed short sales....

OK, markets are up. But whither the economy?

Aug 11, 2011
US stock markets ended sharply higher today, setting the stage for more arguments between bears and bulls....