Stocks

I bought stocks; my husband bought CDs. Now I can't bear to look I bought stocks; my husband bought CDs. Now I can't bear to look

I can't get up the nerve to tell my husband just how much money we've lost.
  • There and back again: Dow 9000

    Where did those eleven years go? For President Obama, investors are partying like it's July 1998
  • Wall Street joins the "whiners"

    Worries over mortgages and oil plunge Wall Street deeper into a bear market today, as the Dow drops below 11,000 for the first time in two years.
  • Monty Python stock market report

    In the wake of Tuesday's meltdown.
  • I tried to get rich on stock spam

    There really is a way to make money off those annoying, relentless e-mails about "hot stocks."
  • AIG CEO Ed Liddy's not-so-secret Goldman ties

    How shocking is it that a member of Goldman's Board of Directors owned stock in the investment bank?
  • Wall Street gets the jitters, again

    A bond manager warns of a "tsunami"; a Fed official labels future economic health "subpar." What do Republicans have to say? Nothing, again
  • Who killed global capitalism?

    A "lost decade" for stocks? The "high water mark" of financial deregulation? Who pulled the trigger?
  • Wall Street waits for the next "tape bomb"

    Jittery days are here again, as traders twitch uncontrollably at each new item of bad news from the credit markets
  • General Motors and the housing bust

    Stocks slump again on Wall Street, and here's one reason why: GM's financing arm is up to its neck in bad subprime mortgage loans.
  • George Soros

    He went from apple harvester to capitalist kingpin to progressive savior. The countercultural investor has more money than you've ever heard of, and he just loves to give it away.
  • How Barron's got its groove back

    The new-economy business magazines haven't flexed as much muscle as an old-school weekly that still knows how to make the Street go round.
  • Reactions to stock carnage: "The bubble has burst"

    Believers in a prosperous "new economy" weigh in on the market's relentless decline.
  • The best of all possible worlds

    Dow at 36,000! No more cancer! The new techno-optimists gush about a picture-perfect future. Should we believe them?
  • Election coverage, gonzo-style

    Alternative Vote 2000 brings the counterculture to election coverage. Plus: High Times turns 25; what happens if Amazon tanks?
  • More on "deep links," journalists and IPOs

    Why you don't need lawyers to block links -- and hot reactions to the Chris Nolan story.
  • My own private IPO

    We invite your investment in our ill-defined but well-hyped venture.
  • I was a junkie stockbroker

    How one trader learned that there's more to life than the vicissitudes of the market.
  • Toto, I'm not Dave Kansas anymore

    So what's wrong with Web journalists becoming stock tycoons?
  • Bear essentials

    Bear essentials: By Tim Cavanaugh. Christopher Byron, the Cassandra of Net stocks, explains how day traders have fueled the tech market roller derby.
  • Tools of the trade

    Tools of the trade: By Dana Blankenhorn. New electronic networks like the Island are enabling the day-trading boom.
  • Night of the living day traders

    Night of the living day traders: By Dana Blankenhorn. They buy and sell at ultrasonic speeds. They rarely leave their desks. And they're obsessed with the Net.
  • 21st Log: Yahoo buys GeoCities -- pop-up ads and all

  • Newsreal: Market panic

    As the stock market suffers its worst day since 1987's 'Black Monday,' all eyes turn to the East.

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