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• US GDP Pivotal to Market Sentiment on Thursday Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 | 8:43 PM ET

  

  Economists forecast the GDP number to show growth anywhere from just under 3 percent to as high as 4 percent - the first positive growth for the U.S. economy since second quarter, 2008.

• Wed Preview: Pause in Carry Trades Could Boost Dollar Tuesday, 27 Oct 2009 | 11:50 PM ET

  

  The floor under stocks feels a bit shaky, and the market could give way to more profit taking this week.

• Friday Look Ahead: All eyes on MSFT, Bernanke Thursday, 22 Oct 2009 | 9:29 PM ET

  

  Ahead of Friday's opening bell, investors will be watching earnings from Microsoft and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's address at the Boston Fed's annual conference.

• Thursday Look Ahead: It's All About the Dollar Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009 | 7:29 PM ET

  

  The weakening dollar has been one of the catalysts driving stocks and other risk assets higher, and it is a main focus of traders this week as they sort through a deluge of corporate earnings news and watch the dollar shrink to a 14-month low.

• Wednesday Look Ahead: Choppy Trading Expected Amid Earnings Tidal Wave Tuesday, 20 Oct 2009 | 9:24 PM ET

  

  Stocks could trade a bit choppy Wednesday, as investors react to a tidal wave of earnings news and watch fluctuations in the dollar and other risk assets.

• Friday Look Ahead: Earnings Could be driver for Stocks, Bonds and Dollar Friday, 16 Oct 2009 | 4:22 AM ET

  

  Earnings reports from General Electric and Bank of America are the big numbers for markets Friday, and they matter nearly as much in the foreign exchange and Treasury markets as they do in the stock market.

• Thursday Look Ahead: Bears Are Sheepish Wednesday, 14 Oct 2009 | 9:02 PM ET

  

  The Dow crossed the 10,000 level and all of sudden the bears grew quieter.

• Mathisen: The Animal Spirits Are Coming Back Friday, 18 Sep 2009 | 10:58 AM ET

  The Managing Editor of CNBC TV goes to the same investor conference ... one year later ... and finds a world of difference.

• The Little Guy’s Preferred Broker Wednesday, 16 Sep 2009 | 8:11 PM ET

  More and more small-time traders are flooding into the market, and they’re choosing this company over even the NYSE.

• The President: What a Difference a Day Makes Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009 | 11:56 AM ET

  The contrast between the president's speech today at the GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio, and his speech yesterday on Wall Street could not have been more glaring.

• Halftime Report: Is the September Correction Already Underway? Monday, 31 Aug 2009 | 1:08 PM ET

  Both the Dow and the S&P 500 sold off Monday after a sharp drop in China’s stock market left investors worried that asset prices had raced ahead of an economic recovery.

• Pros Say: Stocks to Rise Again After Summer Monday, 17 Aug 2009 | 3:58 PM ET

  

  Stocks plunged more than 2 percent Monday as traders cashed in on some of the gains from the four-week rally. Earlier, the New York Fed reported its measure of manufacturing activity in the region moved into positive territory—signaling growth—for the first time since April 2007. Read and listen to what the experts had to say...

• Volatility to Increase in Coming Months: Trader Monday, 17 Aug 2009 | 1:59 PM ET

  The Vix soared over 10 percent on Monday. What's next? Dan Deming, trader at Stutland Equities and Brett D’Arcy, CIO of CBIZ Wealth Management shared their outlooks.

• ‘Big Smokestack’ U.S. Recovery Coming: Strategist Monday, 17 Aug 2009 | 12:33 PM ET

  This is a good opportunity to leverage towards a cyclical recovery, said Thomas Lee, Chief U.S. Equity Strategist at JPMorgan.

• TD Ameritrade Settles Securities Investigation Monday, 20 Jul 2009 | 12:46 PM ET

  

  TD Ameritrade  has agreed to buy back $456 million in auction-rate securities from investors in New York and across the US, New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo said Monday.

• Stocks Close Higher, Helped by Roubini, Tech Thursday, 16 Jul 2009 | 4:18 PM ET

  Stocks closed higher after a staging a late rally triggered partly by positive comments from the economist known as "Doctor Doom."

• Stocks Flat as CIT, Banks Put Stop to Rally Thursday, 16 Jul 2009 | 1:30 PM ET

  Stocks edged lower at the open as the market gave back some of its gains from this week's rally.

• Futures Mixed; Get Boost From Jobs Numbers Thursday, 16 Jul 2009 | 8:39 AM ET

  Wall Street was heading for a mixed open, after a steep drop in jobless claims help offset some negative news on earnings.

• Brokerage Stocks Are Booming — Still Time to Buy: Tom Lydon Tuesday, 16 Jun 2009 | 1:14 PM ET

  Although financial stocks remain well off of their 2007 highs, some have been clawing their way back. Brokerage stocks have rebounded with such force that they’re among the top-performing sectors year-to-date, benefiting as investors slowly come back to the market. Trading volume has also improved in the past few months.

• An Adviser (Mine) Is Charged With Fraud Thursday, 11 Jun 2009 | 10:28 AM ET

  

  About two months ago, I wrote a column about how Matthew Weitzman, our family’s financial planner, was under investigation for reportedly siphoning money from clients’ accounts. Well, the ax finally fell on Wednesday.