Stocks closed lower Friday after a profit warning from J.C. Penney, which renewed fears about slower consumer spending. Financials and techs caved in after earlier attempts to rally.

Stocks advanced Friday, boosted by benign inflation data and an upgrade on Lehman Brothers.

Stocks rose at the opening bell as the market weighed benign inflation data with a weak outlook from J.C. Penney.

Stocks rallied Monday after JPMorgan Chase raised its offer for Bear Stearns and a report on home sales came in better than expected.

Stocks rallied into the new week after JPMorgan Chase raised its offer for Bear Stearns and a report on home sales came in better than expected.

Tiffany says loans made to a diamond company hurt its fourth-quarter earnings, but adjusted results beat analyst expectations.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a mixed open for Wall Street after the Easter break, with investors still nervous about the state of the economy.

Five of the nation's leading jewelers have sworn off gold that could someday come from the  proposed Pebble Mine, a huge deposit near the world's most productive wild sockeye salmon stream.

High-end jewelery retailer Tiffany said Friday it was planning its U.S. business cautiously for the first half of 2008, but forecast healthy international sales growth throughout the year.

Strong evidence is emerging that consumer spending, a bulwark against recession over the last year even as energy prices surged and the housing market sputtered, has begun to slow sharply at every level of the American economy, from the working class to the wealthy.

Jeweler Tiffany cut its fiscal-year earnings outlook Friday as same-store sales fell 2 percent in the United States during the November-December holiday period.

Jeweler Tiffany reported a sharp increase in third-quarter profit Friday, boosted by a gain from the sale of its Tokyo flagship store, and raised its full-year profit forecast.

Stocks closed mostly higher on expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates  and the U.S. government will help homeowners recover from the subprime mortgage crisis.

Electronics are in, women's clothes are out -- and leather handbags and jewelry are on the fence heading into next week's unofficial start to the 2007 holiday season. U.S. consumers are struggling with soaring fuel and food costs and the falling housing sector.