If most Americans had never heard of Wall Street titan Edward Liddy before the financial crisis, they knew his name only too well by the end of last spring.The former CEO of Allstate (ALL) famously c

Absent an eve of Halloween horror show, stocks will avoid a red October after snapping a recent slide in emphatic fashion on GDP figures which showed the worst recession since the Second World War is

Shares of financial services companies have rebounded fast and furiously since the market bottomed in early March. The sector is expected to be the best performer in the third quarter, with earnings

  Yankee Stadium -- whether you like the Yankees or not -- has been a colossal infrastructure not only in the Bronx, but in American pride and history. Good ol' fashion baseball is the core ou

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

Editor's Note: James Quinn is a senior director of strategic planning for a major university. James has held high-level financial positions with a retailer, homebuilder and a university in his 22-yea

Stocks rose despite the revelation that the private sector shed 742,000 jobs in March. The figure is courtesy of a monthly employment report published by payroll giant ADP and Macroeconomic Advisers.

The buyers were aggressive today, and the market had a performance-anxiety feel to it. The S&P rocketed up 3.20% to close at 778. Professor Jeff Cooper talked about the importance of 774 today, w

The story of the day was Citigroup (C): The government decided it would take a bigger stake in the company. The government also said it would make significant changes to Citi’s board. The marke

Saturday Night Live goes commercial? Horrors! What looked like a "MacGruber" sketch appeared during the Super Bowl, but it was instead a clever ad for Pepsi (PEP). It also indirectly p