SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — It isn’t time to celebrate relief at the gasoline pump just yet. So far, the data are encouraging. The average price for a gallon of regular gas has fallen each day since May 16 and stood at $3.666 on Friday, ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Treasury prices gained on Friday, retracing some of the prior session’s decline, though bonds are still down for the week.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Canadian equities wavered between small gains and losses Friday, poised to finish the week higher, with gold miners and technology stocks providing support, but financials weighing on the market.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. financial stocks were quiet on Friday ahead of the U.S. Memorial Day holiday but shares of Genworth Financial, E-Trade Financial Corp. and CME Group the most active shares.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Corsair Components Inc., which makes computer storage memory and gaming products, and Tria Beauty Inc., whose laser-hair removal and esthetic products are likely to been seen in late-night infomercials, might ...
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Brazilian stocks rose Friday, buoyed by gains in housing issues, but the market still faced its fifth consecutive weekly decline.
NEW YORK—U.S. Treasury prices rose as investors opted to head into the long holiday weekend with their money in the safe-haven bond market. The market rounds out the session early at 2 p.m. EDT and will remain closed Monday for Memorial Day. ...
The combination of a long holiday weekend, a shakier market in general and the bad taste left by Facebook is making for slow going in the IPO markets, with two deals postponed this week and none scheduled for next.
Consumer confidence just jumped to the highest level since October 2007, and the stock market barely blinked. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan final reading on consumer sentiment in May rose to 79.3, above the 77.8 figure ...
Charles Ward fell behind on his mortgage in September, just as his late wife began a losing battle with lung cancer and her medical costs soared.
For most of us, Memorial Day weekend offers an extra day away from the office. But for some workers, the holiday marks the beginning of summer hours, a time-honored tradition in which employees get to leave early Friday or take the entire ...
CHICAGO (MarketWatch)—There’s a silver lining to the gloom that has defined the cost of air travel: last-minute deals for procrastinators and bargain hunters this Memorial Day weekend.
BAKU, Azerbaijan—Famed for outrageous spectacle and gaudy kitsch, the Eurovision song contest is a quirky annual tradition usually more synonymous with high camp than high politics: not so in Azerbaijan.
SEOUL—The South Korean won fell for a third straight day against the U.S. dollar Friday, hitting its lowest level in more than seven months despite suspected intervention by local authorities.