As earnings results poured in over the past week and a half, all I could imagine were the emails from the CEOs of various American-based multinationals to our leaders in Washington.Such as one like t

Rallies -- and rally monkeys -- were all the rage yesterday as major markets reached new 2009 peaks, a performance which played particularly well in Peoria with hometown hero Caterpillar (CAT) (

Is it Friday yet?Asian stocks were up yet again. The Hang Seng and the Nikkei rose 0.51% and 1.77%, respectively. European stocks were, however, a bit of a mixed bag early this morning. And here in t

One month ahead of Heather Locklear’s return to Melrose Place the Dow is back above 10,000; a man with a van Winkle would say we’ve been singing the same song for a decade. Planes (AMR Co

For a third straight session stocks ended in the black, as did black gold with oil gaining 4.6%. The yellow metal itself got up over $1,000 intraday, an 18-month high, but our greenback could use buc

“So I'm rappelling down Mount Vesuvius when suddenly I slip, and I start to fall. Just falling. Ahh ahh! I'll never forget the terror. When suddenly I realize "Holy cow, Hansel, haven't yo

Once again, Goldman Sachs (GS) stole the spotlight: The firm came out with a bullish call on the US equity market. The firm raised its year-end target for the S&P 500 to 1060, up from 940. Goldma

Sam Bronfman II, Georgiana Bronfman, Edgar Bronfman Senior In 1975, in a story that played out in all the tabloids, a Brooklyn fireman named Mel Patrick Lynch allegedly kidnapped Edger’s el

Timmy’s Turnaround Tuesday was today’s tale of the tape. (How many words that start with T can I put in one sentence?) During a congressional hearing, Tim Geithner said that most banks ha

I don’t know about you, but I’d pay money to wipe that smug smile off that Somali pirate’s face.By the way, I’m not liking this whole market-down thing. I was just getting use