The newspaper industry has been struggling to figure out compensate for declining ad revenues and monetize its content online. Gannett just announced plans to slash between 1,000 and 2,000 jobs, mostly from its local papers.    Read More

Even though Warren Buffett always says he likes stocks more when they're cheaper, he didn't do a lot of buying as Wall Street's major indexes fell to their bear-market lows (so far) in early March.  Berkshire Hathaway's first quarter stock portfolio snapshot shows no blockbuster buys. A few stakes did, however, get bigger during the first three months on the year.   Read More

You want to be "greedy" and buy stocks when others are fearful, said John Rogers of Arial Investments. And he sees a recovery at the end of this year and into 2010.   Read More

The string of encouraging news continued Tuesday....These are not enough to put away the worry beads, but these are the vanguard of reports for what will be an increasingly better economic environment.    Read More

SEC Chair, Mary Schapiro, announced that she has made it a priority to evaluate regulations on short selling.  As she kicks off her "round table" on the issue with participants that include General Electric, JP Morgan Chase, Fidelity, The New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and others, here is a list of the companies with the biggest short interest on the S&P 500.   Read More

It's a dark Friday for The Washington Post Co. Like other newspaper companies it's suffering from the weak economy and plummeting ad market, and today it all took its toll on the stock.   Read More

Around lunchtime the bulls were whispering about Google’s quarterly results, which come out after the bell, and what they’d reveal. There’s cautious optimism in the sector...   Read More

JPMorgan Chase could rule the day Thursday. Traders expect the stock and Treasury markets to take their cue from the bank's first quarter earnings report and forward comments.   Read More

In the final hour of trading Wednesday the DJIA wowed the bulls by jumping 100 points closing above the psychologically important 8000 level.   Read More

As we enter the last trading day of the month and quarter, here are some of the best and worst performers for the period.   Read More