Money Anecdotes

ATLANTA – Stock market slides may hurt more than your savings. New research suggests they might prompt heart attacks.

Here are elementary school rankings in the Stock Market Game as of March 11, 2010. See updated standings every Saturday at Cincinnati.com/business.

Think Leonardo DiCaprio’s next movie will be a dog?

Mixed economic reports held the stock market to only modest moves Friday but gains for the week were strong. Uneven figures on retail sales and consumer confidence gave investors little new insight into the economy. The reports weren’t enough to propel the market higher a day after the Standard & Poor’s 500 index closed at its highest level in 17 months

Mixed economic reports held the stock market to only modest moves Friday but gains for the week were strong. Uneven figures on retail sales and consumer confidence gave investors little new insight into the economy.

Stocks shuttled between narrow gains and losses and closed mixed Friday after reports on retail sales and consumer confidence gave investors little new insight into the economy.

It’s been a year since the stock market started to rebound, and 10 years since the Internet bubble burst. Investors can learn good lessons from both milestones.

Americans regained more of their shrunken wealth last quarter, mainly because the healing U.S. economy boosted stock portfolios. But the gain was less than in the previous two quarters.

A late rally sent stocks modestly higher Friday and gave the Standard & Poor’s 500 index a new 15-month closing high.

A renewed sense that Wall Street’s biggest financial companies had endured the worst of the economic downturn helped lead the stock market higher on Wednesday.