Don't let the pundit-speak about "lagging indicator" or the market's move Friday fool you, the job market is crucial to the stock market right now.     Read More

Companies including TD Ameritrade, Coach and Turkey's Turkcell could be on Warren Buffett's radar, according to a quantitative screen by Standard & Poor's.   Read More

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

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.    Read More

Following are the day’s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Nasdaq and JPMorgan popped while CBS and Boeing dropped.   Read More

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.    Read More

For retail brokers like Ameritrade, it's been a good few months: to the surprise of many, growth for the discount firms has outpaced the full-service firms.    Read More