Markets
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World markets slide again amid financial fears
Mar 02, 2009 10:00 pm - LONDON -- World stock markets fell further Tuesday as investors continued to fret about the global financial sector after American International Group Inc. reported the ...
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Wall Street down a day after massive drop
Mar 02, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Investors bruised by Wall Street's latest rout found little reason to pile back into the market. Stocks extended their losses in an erratic session Tuesday a...
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After big sell off, oil prices rebound
Mar 02, 2009 10:00 pm - Oil prices neared $41 a barrel Tuesday after grim U.S. economic news and tumbling stock markets sparked a huge drop Monday. A slightly weaker U.S. dollar and an oil pipe...
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Deteriorating economy cuts off rally in oil market
Mar 01, 2009 10:00 pm - SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Oil prices plummeted more than 10 percent Monday with little to suggest energy demand will recover in the deteriorating global economy. Benchmark cr...
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Dow Jones drops 299 to close to below 7,000
Mar 01, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Investors' despair about financial companies and the recession has brought the Dow Jones industrial average to another unwanted milestone: its first drop bel...
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Oil below $43, ending 2-day rise
Feb 26, 2009 10:00 pm - DENVER -- A record U.S. economic contraction dragged oil prices below $43 a barrel Friday, a day after crude surged on signs that weak U.S. demand could be recovering. B...
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World stocks mostly lower as economic fears weigh
Feb 26, 2009 10:00 pm - LONDON -- European markets fell Friday on concerns about banks and pharmaceutical companies, whose profits investors believe may be curbed by President Obama's plan to r...
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Street ends Feb. in steep loss
Feb 26, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wall Street ended another unforgiving month with a steep loss -- one that left the Dow Jones industrial average at less than half its record high. The day's ...
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Oil rises on hopes drop in U.S. demand is slowing
Feb 25, 2009 10:00 pm - DENVER -- Oil prices jumped for a second consecutive day Thursday as the supply of crude, for months a secondary consideration to rapidly declining demand, appeared to g...
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European stocks higher on banks insurance scheme
Feb 25, 2009 10:00 pm - LONDON -- European markets rose Thursday as investors welcomed a British program to allow struggling banks to access government insurance against future losses on toxic ...