Bill Barnhart

$2.74 7.2% Shares of General Growth Properties Inc. jumped to $41. The Chicago-based owner of malls said it plans to raise about $821.9 million selling stock to help pay debt....

At the height of the bubble in Internet stocks in late 1999, exuberant investors were buying shares of companies as if the stock certificates themselves were precious commodities, like gold....

Stocks closed mostly higher Tuesday in thin trading, although Merrill Lynch's "sell" recommendation on Bank of America, a new member of the 30-stock Dow Jones industrial average, helped send the...

Stocks on Monday posted their third solid advance in four sessions, as investors cheered a higher bid for investment bank Bear Stearns and optimism swelled that the Wall Street scare...

The wreckage of Wall Street's single-car crash continues to attract rubber-neckers, now that we know that the driver's blood alcohol level was off the charts. But it might be time...

$3.30 8.6% Shares of Bank of America Corp. jumped to $41.86. Banking shares rallied after Punk Ziegel & Co. analyst Richard Bove said the financial crisis is over and the...

Picking winners and losers is the essence of active investing. The process normally is applied to securities and other financial instruments. But these days, the selectivity also concerns people. The...

Stocks on Thursday recovered most of Wednesday's losses, as commodity prices continued to sink. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 261.66 points, or 2.2 percent, to 12,361.32, recouping most of...

-$11.09 11.2% Shares of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. tumbled to $87.60. Commodity producers fell the most of any group in the Standard & Poor's 500, as gold, silver, copper...

Stocks reversed course Wednesday, shaving two-thirds off Tuesday's 420-point rally in the Dow Jones industrial average. Losses among commodities, including oil and gold, propelled the market lower. The Dow lost...