For the loneliest number, one sure has a lot of company. A one point gain took the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to within one percent of its retracement level while one dollar will suffice a

Stocks surged, the Dow’s best day since July taking it back above 10,000 as gold rallied for a fourth straight session (see Why Gold Could Still Triple From Here). US worker productivity posted

Equities ended mixed in unusually tight trading. Buffett was a buffer against broader declines with his big railroad bet, but a downgrade of the semiconductor sector left Intel (INTC) (-2.68%) e

Welcome to Minyanville’s quotes of the week, served up with some quotable historical context for your Friday enjoyment. “The amount of money people are paid has taken a big hit; not just

In a delicious irony, archaeologists unearthed Nero’s dining room a year to the day after Congressional fiddling while Rome burned caused stocks to crater. Yesterday’s decline in the Dow,

Minyan Morning Memo One to watch: Walt Disney (DIS) is due to report fiscal third-quarter earnings at the close. Shares of the entertainment juggernaut and world’s biggest media entity have bee

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The Holy Grail de jour of financial market prognostication is predicting the bottom in housing. It's a fool's errand, however. Investing based on a perceived end to declining property values has&

According to Bloomberg, the New York Times Company (NYT) said today that advertising revenue at its newspapers and Web sites fell 13% in May. It was the biggest monthly decline this year for the third

To drill or not to drill? What's good for offshore drillers such as Transocean (RIG), Noble Corporation (NE) and ENSCO (ESV) isn't necessarily good for consumers. Even a major oil discovery off the co