Discount broker buys Windward Investment Management for $150 million, bolstering its roster of exchange-traded funds

Europe's largest economy had to climb back from a deep recession, but its manufacturing sector still has good prospects despite fears of a slowdown.

Some big companies will feel the pain as cities, states and the federal government cut spending in the face of deficits. Sizing up the impact on Dell, St. Jude and three others.

Eaton Vance's Duncan Richardson thinks large-cap growth stocks will have their day again. The joys of dividends and the danger of the rush into bonds.

After a frustrating summer for stocks, market strategists see few gains this fall—unless the economy regains its swagger.

Bill AlpertShanghai shares could sell off as corporate profit growth peaks for the year

Quarterly dividend hits 25 cents a share on the company's ninth consecutive increase.

Though shares of the video-game maker soared on strong earnings results, the future could get dicey.

Stocks rallied 5.3% in the first three days of September after a summer of negativity, showing that investors' comfort zone is noncommittal going into a political season where anything can happen.

Investors stage a little party in response to a soggy jobs report. Things about China we never knew.

Like FDR, the president should support a sliding capital-gains tax scale, which reduces the bite the longer you held on to an investment.

London’s 3.5 million Tube travelers face turmoil next week with as many as 10,000 of the subway’s train drivers, station staff and engineers staging the first of a series of 24-hour strikes over job cuts.

Enel SpA, Italy’s biggest utility, plans to sell its gas distribution assets in Spain by September and its stake in a Bulgarian power plant soon after, Chief Executive Officer Fulvio Conti said.

An Australian mining council moved to pressure the three independent lawmakers critical to propping up a new minority government to oppose a planned new mining tax.

Hayek erwägt Bau von neuen Fabriken

North Korea is grappling with food shortages, interviews with defectors and Chinese traders suggest. The privations come on the eve of a meeting that could signal its biggest political transformation in decades.

Gold prices are edging up toward a high, at $1,249.20 an ounce, triggering multibillion-dollar deals by miners doubling down on the staying power of bullion's nearly decadelong rally.

Mark C. Miller sold 100,000 shares of the medical-waste firm.

India says the summer's Kashmiri protests are either leaderless demonstrations, or Pakistan-backed provocation. Kashmiri separatist leader Masarat Alam Bhat says they are neither.

Die EU hat einen Durchbruch zur Schaffung einer europäischen Finanzaufsicht erzielt: Drei neue Aufsichtsbehörden sollen Finanzkrisen künftig vermeiden helfen.