As third-quarter earnings kick off this week, more companies than ever have expressed optimism about their bottom lines.

October has a fearsome reputation for stock-market tumult, largely due to a handful of notoriously grim selloffs. Yet a look at market returns over the past century suggests that those fears may be ...

The surge in bond yields to generational highs has investors around the world watching and worrying about what could crack, ...

As hesitant buyers drive home prices down, these are the places with the most price cuts and the biggest markdowns.

The bottom didn’t drop out of the labor market after a poor September U.S. jobs report. But what it did show is hiring is ...

The sports-card market has long been dominated by legendary names such as Mickey Mantle and LeBron James. Could social-media titan Mark Zuckerberg be joining that list? An autographed card bearing a ...

Falling wages. An energy crisis. Growing international conflicts. A losing war. A divisive and increasingly unpopular ...

Debt among older Americans is rising, both in terms of the number of older households carrying debt and the amount borrowed.

A large profit from a stock sale within an IRA shouldn’t be treated separately from the rest of the portfolio balance. (Photo ...

Bond prices declined again this week, which means long-term interest rates continued to climb. This is a moment of pain for investors holding bonds or shares of bond funds, but also one of opportunity ...

Law and lobbying firms in Washington, D.C., are telling companies to prepare for a new level of scrutiny, since most modern ...

A weak U.S. jobs report did what bad news hadn’t done in a while: It made U.S. debt look like a safe haven again — albeit briefly.