Some slivers of sunshine amidst the economic clouds today.

First, retail sales are up for the first time in six months, perhaps signaling that consumers aren’t as bearish on the economy as...

Halloween is well over but the pin-drop silence on the financial markets today was downright eerie. On one hand, a calm trading market is welcome relief after six weeks of extreme volatility. On the...

Stocks are mixed today, which isn't really bad news considering the overseas selloff we saw on Sunday night and early Monday morning.

Helping U.S. markets was decent news from the housing sector,...

It's kind of a quiet Monday morning on Wall Street, with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulsen's proposal to further regulate and consolidate the U.S.'s financial markets (by bringing heavier Federal...

Are technology companies getting a raw deal over a new international accounting rule?

Plenty of tech company CFO's seem to think so. In a survey released this week by BDO Seidman, LLP, an...