Can you beat the market?  Many academics will tell you no.

President Obama said he wanted to send 78 million American seniors a check for $250 each.

The euro finished the week considerably higher against the downtrodden US dollar, but late-week pullbacks showed that traders were not yet willing to push it above the key 1.5000 mark.

What is the most influential driver behind the Japanese yen? The same underlying current for all capital markets: risk appetite.

There was a none-too-subtle shift in sentiment for the British pound last week.

The Swiss franc sees little currency-specific event risk in the week ahead, with price action likely to fall in with broad trends in financial markets' sentiment and the US dollar.

JPMorgan, the Wall Street firm that was bailed out by the feds a year ago, reported income of $3.6 billion in the 3rd quarter. With that kind of profit in the financial sector, it won’t be long before the whole economy is running red hot, right?

Mortgage lenders say they expect the peak in foreclosures to come about a year from now.

October is almost half over. Will we get through the month without a major sell-off?

When consumers stop consuming, the US economy’s wheels stop turning.