After months of sticking to their positive outlook for the stock market, Wall Street experts are finally throwing in the towel.
Chaotic markets have left investors scrambling for ways to boost returns without taking on excessive risk. But there's a simple strategy that can make a virtue out of market volatility: Build a portfolio around high-quality stocks with generous dividend yields to offer a cushion against market swings, and juice even more income from those stocks through the strategic use of options.
Not to worry: He's only getting high in his Apache helicopter at RAF Wattisham
For the first time since the terror attack on the World Trade Center, the general public is being allowed back onto the site.
A few men are down on their hands and knees at the 9/11 memorial plaza in Lower Manhattan, laying sod around some of the trees. Fortunately, Hurricane Irene didn't damage any of the trees on the site. The reflecting pools made it through the storm unscathed, too. They're going through some final tests before the memorial opens Sunday, the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
Wall Street faces a data-heavy schedule this week that is expected to bring more volatility to a market full of investors weary from six consecutive weeks of losses.
Hooray for earnings! The economy may be slowing, but don't expect too much of a hiccup in the upcoming earnings season.
It's been an extremely rough week for Treasuries, and investors said they expect more volatility as one of the market's biggest buyers -- the Federal Reserve -- officially exits the market.
The Federal Reserve is winding down its $600 billion bond buying stimulus that helped fuel an eight-month stock rally, and experts say stocks are ready to take back the reins.
Shareholders in major U.S. companies are rushing to sell their own stakes, trying to cash out ahead of what many experts say will be a summer of declining stock prices.
They learned as children that the world is a scary place where strangers with hatred in their hearts steer planes into buildings, grown-ups cry for days and everything can change in an instant.
As news develops around the death of Osama bin Laden, there are a variety of different reactions.
CNN's Rima Maktabi reports on the candidates to replace Osama bin Laden as al Qaeda's leader.
Growing up with 9/11 is just another part of who I am. I can remember exactly what I was doing when I found out about what happened to the World Trade Center.
U.S. stocks struggled for a second session on Tuesday, as disappointing corporate earnings and a steep drop in the price of oil weighed on the broader market.
Could predicting the next box office flop make you rich? Not if Hollywood has its way.
Social networking startup Demand Media is preparing an initial public offering and has hired Goldman Sachs as an underwriter, according to a report published Friday.
The only thing wrong with an afternoon spent poolside in Vegas is that you're missing the action at the tables inside.
Government bond prices rallied Friday, as shell-shocked investors retreated from Wall Street.
CNNMoney: Google sales jump 18%updated: Thu Jan 22 2009 18:03:00
Internet advertising behemoth Google continued to show strong sales and profit against a thorny economic backdrop.
World stock markets retreated in the wake of a sell-off on Wall Street amid mounting concerns about a slumping US economy and its impact on global growth
The IPO market hasn't exactly been running at full throttle this year. And lately, it can't seem to get out of first gear.
Stocks looked to open slightly higher Wednesday as investors exercised some caution after stocks posted their biggest one-day rally in years.
As financial markets go, so go initial public offerings.
Stocks remained sharply lower Thursday as a Citigroup downgrade reignited credit market concerns while disappointing Exxon Mobil added to investor fears.
Stocks suffered further losses Thursday afternoon on a Citigroup downgrade and disappointing results from oil giant Exxon Mobil.
Kirby Daley, a strategist with Fimat Hong Kong Ltd., explains the credit and mortgage crisis and its impact on global markets.
From the way stocks are trading, you'd almost think last month's upheaval in financial markets never happened.
Wall Street investors cheered a flurry of upbeat corporate earnings Thursday, briefly sending the Dow above 14,000 while they awaited the minutes from the latest Federal Reserve meeting and closely monitored testimony by central bank chief Ben Bernanke.
Like greenbacks in a mattress, government bonds enjoy a reputation as a fail-safe investment. The integrity of the $4 trillion-plus U.S. Treasury market is essential, because it keeps investors, pa...
CNNMoney: Why IPOs are hurtingupdated: Wed Jun 21 2006 10:00:00
As the official start of summer gets underway, the market for companies going public is hitting some headwinds.
CNNMoney: Bonds mixed on Fedupdated: Wed May 10 2006 08:24:00
Bonds were mixed Wednesday after the Federal Reserve raised its key short-term interest rate again but offered no clear sign of when it may be ready to pause its rate-boosting campaign.
Jurors at Zacarias Moussaoui's death penalty trial heard wrenching accounts Monday about the 9/11 attacks' youngest victim and the World Trade Center firm that suffered the largest human toll.
Bonds tumbled Friday, lifting the yield on the benchmark 10-year note to just a shade below the key 5 percent level, as investors bet the Federal Reserve would keep hiking interest rates longer than previously thought.
U.S. stocks were set to retreat Friday as the price of oil climbed higher and investors continued to shudder at quarterly results and outlooks.
CNNMoney: Time for a breatherupdated: Thu Jan 12 2006 05:35:00
The new year rally could come to a halt Thursday as rising oil prices dampen investor sentiment towards the stock market.
Treasury prices retreated from early gains, ending slightly higher Wednesday after the Federal Reserve's "beige book" report showed prices increases, despite promises to fight inflation by officials at the central bank.
A flattening yield curve sends a message to investors: Get defensive.
When bond yields compete with Martha Stewart and Bernie Ebbers for headlines, they usually lose. But recently they've gotten attention by behaving in a way that has sparked fears of a big economic slowdown.
There's been a lot of talk in financial markets lately about why long-term interest rates aren't rising as fast as short-term rates -- a situation Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has called a "conundrum."
One of the world's largest Treasury bond brokers has predicted that the so-called yield curve could invert by as early as the next quarter, a move some economists fear could precede a recession.
Bonds moved higher Wednesday as a fresh spike in crude renewed fears that high energy prices could weigh on economic growth and the market shrugged off a report that showed stronger-than-expected growth in the services sector.
On September 11, 2001, a fireball engulfed Lauren Manning as she arrived to work at the Twin Towers. Now, after suffering burns to more than 80 percent of her body, and being given a 10 percent chance of survival, Manning is nearing the end of physical therapy and savoring every moment of a life nearly lost.
Wall Street was buzzing after news broke Wednesday that Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina got ousted by the company's board.
It may be more boomlet than tsunami, but there is no question the market for initial public offerings is on a tear.
An exhibit of McNally's Polaroids, sponsored by Morgan Stanley and AOL Time Warner, is at New York's Grand Central Station.
On the shore at Atlantic Highlands, N.J., seagulls swoop and soar over the piers and the lobstermen steering out to sea past hundreds of moored sailboats. It's an idyllic enclave, a world away from...
Money Magazine: Gimme Shelterupdated: Thu Nov 01 2001 00:01:00
"Sold!" cries a guy in the convertible bonds area of Icap's makeshift trading floor as he slams his fist on the desk. "There goes one of our keyboards," deadpans Don Carey, head of disaster recover...
They're back on the job--but life for the men and women who populate New York City's financial district is anything but back to normal. Thousands of traders, bankers, and analysts now find themselv...
No one understands better than Peter DaPuzzo the combination of talented people, sophisticated systems, and cult bonding required to build a successful Wall Street trading firm. DaPuzzo, a trim, 60...
Fortune: Personal Tributeupdated: Mon Oct 01 2001 00:01:00
Sure, as chief administrative officer of Cantor Fitzgerald, Andy Kates could help manage one of the most complicated firms on Wall Street. But those of us who knew him knew that he organized his li...
All bets are off on the future of the stock market. It has simply never experienced a shock like this one. But the market has taken some severe hits in the past, and on the whole it has proven rema...
Fortune: 9.11.01updated: Mon Oct 01 2001 00:01:00
The phrase "enemies of capitalism" is one the post-war generations grew up with, but even during the bitterest of the Cold War years it never seemed to be much more than an ideological handle, a co...
Fortune: Writing in Sorrowupdated: Mon Oct 01 2001 00:01:00
This story hit our hearts. Thankfully, no one at FORTUNE or among our immediate families died in the worst single day of violence on American soil since the Civil War. But because thousands of busi...
Imagine a room the size of an airplane hangar, ringed with digital clocks and TV screens the size of billboards. In the middle of the room are a dozen amphitheaters six feet high and 40 to 50 feet ...
This split thing is getting way out of hand. Not long ago, in response to a reader who wanted to know if there was any Internet site that predicted stock splits, I wrote, "Not that I know of." Goes...
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