European stock markets have been tumbling all week over fears of the damage a Greek exit from the euro zone could do to the single currency and even the European Union. Yet through it all, Germany's borrowing costs keep going down—so much ...
President Obama's standard gripe is that the economy has performed so poorly during his term because of the financial crisis he inherited from George W. Bush. But this week it is Mr. Obama who has bequeathed to his successors a landmark in ...
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Shares in brokerage and clearing firm Penson Worldwide have dropped almost 30% to 21 cents, earlier falling as low as 16 cents. The firm earlier this week disclosed plans to tap $5.5 million in regulatory capital in order to pay down ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The U.S. dollar rose on Friday, remaining on pace to end a fourth straight week of gains that has taken the greenback to its highest level since 2010.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Treasury prices gained on Friday, retracing some of the prior session’s decline, though bonds are still down for the week.
MADRID (MarketWatch) — Spanish government bonds tumbled Friday, sending yields higher, rattled by reports that one of Spain’s autonomous regions has asked for assistance from the government because it can’t get debt financing from the ...
MADRID—The head of Spain's Catalonia region Friday called for the central government to accelerate plans to share responsibility for regional debt because of increasing difficulties they face to finance themselves, while stressing his ...
This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, rapper Young Buck agreed to a plea deal and has been kicked out of his house. Also, TLC member T-Boz is getting sued for not making car payments.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks languished between modest gains and losses Friday, with Wall Street largely fixated on Spain, where regional banks are struggling with finances and yields that reflect the government’s borrowing costs ...
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch)—Investors are reeling from Europe’s deepening economic crisis, but they may soon find themselves battered closer to home as the U.S. economy closes in on another debt-ceiling debate and teeters toward the edge of ...
The latest flaring of tensions in the euro zone has sparked a scramble for bonds issued by Germany, the safest of Europe's havens. The appeal of German debt in times of crisis was underlined Wednesday, with an auction of two-year paper—known ...
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Brazilian stocks rose Friday, buoyed by gains in housing issues, but the market still faced its fifth consecutive weekly decline.
Drug makers and a better-than-expected reading on U.S. consumer sentiment helped European stock markets end a choppy session with small gains.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — For the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen college seniors don cap and gown, march to the sounds of “Pomp and Circumstance” and collect their diplomas, the fruit of years of work and sacrifice.