There will be blood all right and not just in oil, which suffered a steep drop to fall for the first day in four. As Twilight tweens screamed to see another gory story at the box office, S&P 500

A growing pack of bears is now clawing away at China.Much of the world might have bought into the miracle of China, but there's a significant platoon of heavyweight investment strategists and market

Rio Tinto, Show Me the Money Rio Tinto (RTP) said its capital expenditure forecast for 2010 will more than double to at least $5 billion, a clear sign that the mining giant is expecting more improvem

Stocks posted their first weekly decline since early October with unhappy anniversaries all around us; Monday marked twenty-two years since one serious slump day and the Great Depression was unoffici

Two of the major indexes rose for a third straight session and unless investors suddenly turn a tin ear to Alcoa’s (AA) impressive earnings, this morning will witness another solid start.

Buyers beware the beginning of a month. Taking their cue from yesterday’s sixtieth birthday celebrations in Beijing, stocks opened October amid a sea of red, the Dow’s decline eclipsing a

A $15 billion deal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) involving Australia, China, and global-oil heavyweight Exxon-Mobil Corp. (XOM) has prompted many investors to worry that China may be using its glob

Minyan Morning Memo One to watch: I admit to having something of a soft spot for Gap (GPS), since we’re both about to turn 40. (They appear to have aged better; I guess it’s all in the ge

The second quarter of the year has turned out to be astonishing for base metals. But can they sustain their gains, or will they slowly melt away? Stockpiling by the Chinese, stimulus plans that were

Minyan Morning Memo One to Watch: CSX Corp. (CSX) will hope to avoid giving investors any excuse to rail against its stock when the transportation giant reports after the close. Q2 is expected t