In Another Whipsaw Day on Wall Street, Stocks Reverse Early Losses, Post Gains in Final Day of January

By Jennifer Yousfi Managing Editor After starting the month with the three worst New Year trading days since 1904, U.S. stocks ended January with...

Boeing Deals With Dreamliner, Announced Fourth-Quarter Results That Exceed Wall Street Estimates

By William Patalon III Executive Editor Money Morning/The Money Map Report Boeing Co. (BA), the world's second-largest maker of commercial jetliners,...

Fed Comes Through with Expected 50 Basis Point Cut, But Markets Still Falter

By Jennifer Yousfi Managing Editor The U.S. Federal Reserve yesterday delivered the half a point interest-rate cut the market was expecting yesterday...

Global Investing Roundups

EU Brings Fat Up-Front; Citigroup Swaps for Nikko Cordial; Merrill Bails on Future CDOs; Foreign Sales Help Merck; UBS Writes Down $18 Billion in...

Four Global Profit Plays That Have Been Unfairly Punished by the Subprime Mortgage Mess

By Martin Hutchinson Contributing Editor The whipsaw trading we've seen the last few weeks has been unsettling for everyone with a stock portfolio,...

India's Strong IT Sector So Far Unaffected by U.S. Turmoil

By Jason Simpkins Associate Editor The U.S. financial services sector has been devastated by the widespread collapse of mortgage-backed assets, but...

Midday Market Update: GDP Staggers, Investors Wait for Fed

By Jennifer Yousfi Managing Editor Global markets sagged today on weak corporate earnings and subprime concerns, while investors wait for the Federal...

Five Ways to "Follow the Money" to Global Profits, In Good Markets and Bad

By Keith Fitz-Gerald Investment Director Money Morning/The Money Map Report As you might imagine, I have been inundated with telephone calls and...

A High-Wire Act: Investors Watch as Fed Struggles to Balance Inflation Fears, Growth Pressures

By Jennifer Yousfi Managing Editor When U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers conclude their two-day meeting today (Wednesday), investors are betting the...

Global Investing Roundups

Airlines Lose to High Fuel; Valero Cuts Back as California Goes Green; Sales Slump for Second Largest Railroad; Excel Snaps Up Quintana; Foreclosures...

Motorists Get Temporary Reprieve as Soaring Gasoline Prices Shift Into Reverse

By Jason Simpkins Associate Editor Despite recession fears and a temporary pullback in the price of oil, gasoline prices will likely tease record...

Midday Market Update: Stocks Rise Worldwide on Possible Fed Cut, Strong Durable Goods Orders

By Jennifer Yousfi Managing Editor With a rate cut from the U.S. Federal Reserve seen as highly likely, world markets gained across the board today...

Societe Generale's $7.14 Billion Blow Out Won't Be the Last

By Keith Fitz-Gerald Investment Director Money Morning/The Money Map Report It wasn't quite the Bin Laden trade we wrote about months ago, but at...

Foreign Markets Slump, But U.S. Markets Gain

By Jennifer Yousfi And Jason Simpkins Money Morning Editors U.S. markets advanced yesterday (Monday), erasing most of Friday's losses, as hopes of...

Global Investing Roundups

CME Bids for NYMEX; Sears Ousts CEO; Record Year for McDonald's; Countrywide CEO Relinquishes Severance; New Home Sales Plummet; Investors Bancorp...

Takeover Bid For Societe Generale Unlikely

By Jason Simpkins Associate Editor A highly publicized rogue trader scandal has again made Societe Generale (SCGLY) the target of speculation about a...

Mittal Steel to Divest Sparrows Point Steel Plant of the Now-Defunct Bethlehem Steel

By William Patalon III Executive Editor Money Morning/The Money Map Report Investment bank Morgan Stanley (MS) will manage the sale of Mittal Steel...

Yum Brands Adds $1.25 Billion To Stock Buyback

By William Patalon III Executive Editor Money Morning/The Money Map Report Global Titan Yum! Brands Inc. (YUM) will buy back another $1.25 billion of...

How Dividend-Paying Stocks Can Help You Tame the Bear

By Keith Fitz-Gerald Investment Director Money Morning/The Money Map Report Many investors are so scared by the wild gyrations the stock market has...

U.S. Dominance Bites the Dust: How Wall Street Sold Itself Down the River

By Peter D. Schiff Guest Columnist Over the past half-century, the United States has seen its global dominance in dozens of industries slip...

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