Money Anecdotes

U.S. stocks rose, pushing the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index to a 17-month high, as Citigroup led a rally among banks and report data boosted confidence that the economic recovery is sustainable.

Henny Ray Abrams / The Associated Press, 2009 A trader covers his face in March 2009 while working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

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

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.

The dollar has gotten stronger this year. Is that because the U.S.

TORONTO – The Toronto stock market was little changed Friday morning at the end of a lacklustre week.

March 12 — NMDC Ltd. , Asia’s third-largest iron-ore producer by market value, got bids for 1.25 times the stock offered on the third and final day of a sale that’s part of India’s record asset selloff.

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

Stocks continued their slow trek higher after the government’s report of a drop in companies’ inventories during January.