Markets
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Stocks head toward lower open
Oct 21, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wall Street pointed toward a lower open Monday as investors prepared to extend the sharp losses from Friday, when worries about the credit and housing market...
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Primary Energy works out delays in financial reportOct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Primary Energy Recycling Corp. investors apparently aren't perturbed by the company's announcement a couple weeks ago that it's delaying its third-quarter earnings repor...
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Caterpillar's expectations dented in North America
Oct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Heavy equipment manufactured by Caterpillar works at the base of the Freedom Tower on Sept. 5 in New York. Caterpillar said Friday its third-quarter earnings rose 21 per...
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Stocks fall sharply on lackluster reports
Oct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The Dow Jones industrial average dropped more than 360 points Friday -- the 20th anniversary of the Black Monday crash -- as lackluster corporate earnings, r...
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Gas prices expected to jump
Oct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Jim Ammons grumbles to himself every time he fills up his Ford Expedition, but he says gas prices would have to almost quadruple to $10 a gallon before he wo...
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Stocks head to lower open as oil prices cross $90 a barrel
Oct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wall Street tipped toward a lower open Friday as crude oil crossed $90 a barrel for the first time and heightened concerns that more expensive fuel will hurt...
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Black Monday remembered
Oct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- "We who are about to die salute you." A wary Art Cashin heard this phrase in its original Latin -- morituri te salutamus -- from a fellow trader, a student o...
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Baxter shares increase after profits reported
Oct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Baxter International said third-quarter profits rose 6 percent on strong sales of its hemophilia therapy, beating Wall Street forecasts and prompting the drug maker Thur...
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Fed says economy slowing
Oct 17, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The economy logged slower growth in the early fall as troubles in the housing and credit markets weighed on companies and individuals alike, the Federal Re...
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Stocks futures edge higher ahead of corporate earnings
Oct 17, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wall Street moved toward a slightly higher open today ahead of another batch of third-quarter earnings reports and data that will likely show regional manufa...