Few called market turn, fewer predict it will last (AP)

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Published Jan. 1, 2010 at 2:20 a.m.

Few analysts forecast this year's remarkable stock market rebound as major indexes were plunging to 12-year lows last March. Now, with most experts predicting the pace of stocks' gains will slow in 2010, there's reason to believe they will be proven correct ...

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Stocks' rally to be tested by jobs data (Reuters)

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Published Sept. 25, 2009 at 10:39 p.m.

The rally in stocks, which stumbled in recent days on worries about the economic recovery and continued government stimulus, will be tested next week by crucial data on growth and jobs ...

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Stocks' rise hinges on Fed and data (Reuters)

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Published Sept. 19, 2009 at 3:55 a.m.

Stocks could extend their rally and the Dow industrials may climb above 10,000, should the Fed's policy-makers and economic data support the view the economy is recovering from recession ...

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Major Indexes Surge in Late Trading (Market Update)

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Published Sept. 2, 2009 at 11:00 p.m.
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News at a Glance ... Abercrombie Crunch: Retailer posts weak results ... Jobless Claims: New weekly filings drop by 4,000 ... Costco Sales: Same-store figures drop 2% for August ... Meats Merger: Brazil's JBS to swallow Pilgrim's Pride ... The Lowdown ... Stocks traded in a tight range until the end of the Thursday, session, with low volume ahead of tomorrow's employment report ... The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 64 at 9345. The Nasdaq rose 17 to 1983, and the S&P 500 gained 8 to

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Stocks' rally hinges on consumers and Fed (Reuters)

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Published Aug. 8, 2009 at 9:33 a.m.

Wall Street's rally could persist next week as investors' conviction grows that the U.S. economy is on track for a recovery. But retailers' results, CPI and other consumer data could cast a pall if shoppers fail to show signs of life ...

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Earnings to decide stocks' fate (Reuters)

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Published July 18, 2009 at 2:20 a.m.

Earnings are set to take center stage again next week as more marquee U.S. companies line up to report their quarterly scorecards and investors decide whether to keep pushing stocks higher ...

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Investors await housing, consumer confidence news (AP)

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Published May 24, 2009 at 5:54 p.m.

Investors have lost some of their bravado when facing bad economic news. Wall Street's mood deteriorated last week as investors began to question whether stocks' spring rally was premature ...

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16 Growth Funds for the Recovery (Screens)

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Published Feb. 27, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.
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As a slew of news was unleashed on the markets this week -- the White House's $3.6 trillion budget plan, the Treasury's strategy to help ailing banks and an abundance of (mostly bad) earnings reports -- investors found themselves confounded by a wild ride of triple-digit increases and decreases in each of the past four sessions ... Amid the chaos, a new trend in the fund industry was quietly building steam: Growth stocks were trumping value -- by a noticeably large gap ... That may seem unusual,

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