Bill Barnhart

With the price of gold hovering around $700 an ounce, up $50 in just three weeks, it looks as if nervous investors have found a new comfort food. On Thursday,...

Much of Wall Street is consumed by worry about where the next debt bomb is going to explode. No one believes the credit crunch sparked by lax and abusive mortgage...

Stocks on Tuesday opened the usually troublesome month of September by staging a Goldilocks rally: not too hot and not too cold. The gain was paced by advances in technology...

If you asked active investors who will have the single greatest influence on stocks for the rest of the year, the name most often mentioned probably would be Federal Reserve...

Stocks prices eased Thursday, led by further declines in financial-services stocks and a rare "sell" recommendation by Merrill Lynch for retailing giant Wal-Mart Stores. Technology stocks continued their rally. After...

You might have trouble getting a jumbo mortgage, but this could be your chance to land a high-yielding jumbo certificate of deposit or a smaller, FDIC-insured CD. Rates on CDs...

One way to watch the bouncing ball in financial markets this week has been to keep an eye on the yen. The yen weakened against the dollar Wednesday, as global...

Stocks fell hard Tuesday, as the latest statement by the Federal Reserve prompted a rush of complaints from normally even-tempered and conservative market analysts. The spark to the afternoon sell-off...

Stocks ended broadly lower in thin trading Monday, as investors continued to fret about woes in the mortgage and housing industries. Stocks were also depressed by the failure of Home...

Stocks ended little changed Thursday as traders continued to survey the damage from recent market turmoil. Trading volume eased. The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 0.25 points, to 13,235.88, although...