Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) fourth-quarter earnings reflect its continued effort to expand through acquisition and deliver end-to-end data services.The company is scheduled to release earnings Mond

After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization tha

Without a doubt, the strength and duration of the rally from the March low has surprised many people, me included. Inquiring minds are wondering: Is there still one-third more to come? Barry Ritholtz

Much of the movement with gold (GLD) recently has been attributed to the gold demand originating from India.This demand is based on expected seasonality of weddings and festivals, but if it's expecte

It’s car-buying season. And what a season it is. With all the recent turmoil in the automotive industry, what and whether it makes sense to buy seems more confusing than ever. I spoke with New

For some reason, the lyrics of Electric Light Orchestra’s classic, "Livin’ Thing," keeps resounding in my head: “You took me, ooh, woah, higher and higher, baby. It’

Ups and downs on financial markets were plentiful during the past week, but investor sentiment, on balance, brightened on the back of constructive financial and economic data - capped by a better-tha

“Goodbye safe havens, hello risky assets.” This was the investors’ theme song during the past week. Safe-haven assets were out of favor, as better-than-feared corporate earnings and

Five in a row! Notwithstanding sentiment for equities waxing and waning for most of the Easter-shortened week, bourses closed strongly on Friday and capped a 5-week winning streak - the first si

Following Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s “money-printing” announcement of last week, the action stayed on Capitol Hill, with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner detailing his Public Pr