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By Margaret Talev and Mike Dorning |
February 12, 2013
President Obama addressed the deficit, spending cuts, unemployment, a minimum wage spike and other potentially market-moving topics in his annual State of the Union address to Congress.
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By Roxana Tiron and James Rowley, Bloomberg |
January 18, 2013
House Republicans plan to vote next week on a three-month extension of U.S. borrowing authority in an effort to force the Democratic-led Senate to adopt a budget plan.
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By Mike Dorning, Bloomberg |
January 4, 2013
Fresh from one budget fight, President Barack Obama and Congress are heading for an even bigger confrontation over raising the nation’s debt limit.
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By Whitney Kisling, Inyoung Hwang and Rita Nazareth, Bloomberg |
November 19, 2012
The post-election rout in U.S. stocks has driven the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index down so far that it would have to advance 26 percent to reach the valuation of bull markets since John F. Kennedy was in the White House.
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By Julie Hirschfeld Davis |
November 7, 2012
American voters, seeing glimmers of a recovery, defied history last night and handed President Barack Obama a second chance despite a still-struggling economy.
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By Alanna Byrne |
October 31, 2012
Trading always involves risks, both those you can account for and those you can’t. You can plan for the known risks, but those rarely are what cause panic in the markets.
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By Joshua Gallu and Robert Schmidt, Bloomberg |
October 19, 2012
What Mary Schapiro considered her most important task had just run aground, a symbol of the aspirations and missed opportunities of her tenure as head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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By Jeff Greenblatt |
October 14, 2012
Cycle windows and presidential election expectations are converging on a market that could be ripe for a major shift.
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By Whitney Kisling and Rita Nazareth, Bloomberg |
September 17, 2012
As politicians debate whether Americans are better off than they were four years ago, the stock market is saying yes.
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By Jeff Greenblatt |
August 12, 2012
The stock market keeps climbing, but the fundamentals don't follow. Rather than a warning sign, this could be quite bullish. However, geopolitical turmoil looms.
