Following are the week’s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Anheuser-Busch and Exxon Mobil popped while Boeing and Yahoo! dropped.   Read More

With the third quarter just around the corner, Morgan Keegan senior analyst Brad Stephens offered CNBC some ideas about buying retail stocks.   Read More

Dow's CEO, Andrew Liveris, noted that first quarter feedstock and energy costs were up "a staggering 42 percent," putting strains on the company and its relations with customers. For most chemical companies, price increases have failed to keep up with raw material increases.   Read More

As expected, the ECB and the Bank of England left interest rates unchanged; the ECB at 4.0 percent. Futures dipped a bit at 8:50 am ET as Mr. Trichet began talking, giving his usual speech on the importance of combating inflation.    Read More

Ahead of same-store sales Thursday, we can’t help but wonder if those stimulus checks mean better times are on the horizon for retail?   Read More

March retail same store sales were weak, outside of discounters. Remember companies and analysts have been aggressively taking down first quarter estimates for over a month (as well as same store sales), but companies like JC Penney, Target, Gap, Abercrombie, and Kohls were all notably below expectations on same store sales.    Read More

The Dow dipped slightly in choppy trading, just one day after a the Fed’s historic plan to pump liquidity into distressed financial markets triggered a huge rally. What's the word on the Street?   Read More

The Fed's latest move to add liquidity to credit markets propelled stocks to their best one day performance in five years, and the euphoria is likely to spill into Wednesday's markets.    Read More

Executives are buying large quantities of stock in their own companies despite the recent market turmoil. What do they know that you don’t?   Read More

In Monday’s Web Extra find out if it’s a good time for investors to go department store shopping?   Read More