The Dow industrials declined as investors weighed better-than-expected U.S. consumer confidence and a report of regional weakness in Spain. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index edged lower, on pace to cap its biggest weekly gain in more ...
MADRID—Spain's government is prepared to inject €19 billion ($23.8 billion) in financial support requested Friday by troubled lender Bankia SA, the bank said Friday, in what would represent the largest bank bailout in the country's history.
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 ...
Top stories in today's LBO Wire: In this morning's roundup of private equity news, the private equity arm of Moelis & Co. added another aviation-services business to its portfolio, acquiring Mxi Technologies Ltd. in a deal less than $100 ...
There has never been a better time to refinance your mortgage. Rates are at record lows. The government is devising new programs to help homeowners. The economy and job market are improving, albeit slowly.
Even as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers focuses its attention on a new early-stage fund and pursues more consumer and enterprise technologies, the firm's vast clean-technology portfolio continues to need money. Lots of it.
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE What should be the price of Facebook’s stock? This is the question that investors should be asking but, surprisingly, few are doing so, writes Mark Hulbert.
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Time was small investors couldn’t get enough shares of a hot IPO. Now with Facebook, there are so many nobody knows where they might end up, including in our portfolios.
Links for the informed adviser... Markets Signs of a global slowdown popping up this spring. ( WSJ ) Futures quiet...too quiet. ( MarketWatch )
The world's biggest bond mutual funds are working to protect their portfolios from a possible exit of Greece from the euro zone. Some portfolio managers are dumping debt of southern European countries, while others are piling into safer U.S. ...
BOSTON (MarketWatch)—Somewhere along the way, your adviser or brokerage firm asked you to fill out what’s called a risk-tolerance questionnaire, presumably before you invested a dime in this or that bond, ETF, mutual fund or stock such as, ...
Market check: Europe looks to close out the week on a strong note thanks to strength in confidence data and a lull in Greek euro-zone exit fears. "[T]here are no signs of panic coming from fears of a collapse in the monetary union," ...
First, a synopsis of day No. 4 of the trial of ex-Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director Rajat Gupta, from the WSJ's Chad Bray and Reed Albergotti:
By Corrie Driebusch and Nathalie Tadena Among the companies with shares expected to actively trade in Friday's session are Frontline Ltd. (FRO), VeriFone Systems Inc. (PAY) and Talbots Inc. (TLB).