One recurring theme this week—while sales of luxury goods continue to struggle, consumers continue to shop for less expensive goods.   Read More

Earlier this week the big natural gas ETF, the U.S. Natural Gas Fund (UNG), announced that it was suspending the issuance of new shares. Why did this happen?    Read More

The bears have tasted the blood of Infosys and are moving in for the kill. OptionMonster's tracking systems detected the purchase of 14,651 July 35 puts for $1.65 and the sale of 14,021 August 40 calls for $0.45. ... The move was almost identical to a similar trade last week...   Read More

Art Cashin, director of floor operations for UBS Financial Services, offered CNBC his take on what traders are saying Thursday.   Read More

Sam Stovall of Standard & Poor's and Christopher Zook of Caz Investments had some bad news and some good news. They each think the economy still looks awful — but there are ways to play it.   Read More

Stock futures are up modestly on better-than-expected jobless claims data and Alcoa’s smaller-than-expected loss.    Read More

Weekly jobless claims and June's chain store sales reports will compete Thursday with whatever positive effect remains from Alcoa's narrower-than-expected loss.   Read More

Ahead of Alcoa’s earnings report after the bell, here are a few key issues at hand for the forthcoming corporate earnings season.   Read More

At least one big trader is buying puts in the IYT exchange traded fund, looking for the transport sector to take a dive.    Read More

Futures trade in a fairly tight range this morning ahead of a key 10-year Treasury note auction around 1pm ET today and the earnings season kickoff this afternoon with Dow component Alcoa reporting results after the close.    Read More