Is trading dead in stock market?

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — It’s been eerily quiet on stock trading desks around Wall Street and across the United States. In fact, it’s been the slowest and lowest volume start to the year since 2007.
During the first 10 trading days of 2012, roughly 6.8 billion shares a day changed hands in the United States, down [...]

Apple Misses Big on Earnings, Revenue; Shares Tumble

Apple missed big with its fourth-quarter results, a rare feat for the iPhone and iPad maker, which usually topples forecasts.
The miss stunned Wall Street: Apple shares [AAPL 422.24 2.25 (+0.54%) ] tumbled after-hours and were down more than 7 percent at one point. (Click here for the latest [...]

US stocks market rise after more strong earnings

US stocks have resumed their rally after a series of earnings reports came in better than expected.
Target Corp, Staples Inc and Dell Inc all reported earnings for last quarter that were above analysts’ forecasts.
Companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 are on track to report higher profits for a ninth straight quarter.
But [...]

Asia stocks slammed after U.S. stock market decrease

Roland Randall, strategist at TD Securities, said the U.S. downgrade was “another tick in the box for the long-term bears, and that’s the real concern — that it makes people a bit more pessimistic on the long-term economic outlook.”
China’s Shanghai Composite Index [...]

U.S. stock market futures sink, gold soars after S&P move

Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJ1U [...]

Wall Street plunge could worsen economy’s downtrend

The economic anxiety is signaling by two-week plunge in stock prices  , but it’s also compounding the problem: Lower stock prices are shrinking Americans’ wealth, rattling their confidence and making them less inclined to spend.And employers may become even slower to hire.
The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 513 points, or 4 percent, Thursday on fears [...]

US Stock market to Open Lower as Global Selloff Continues

US stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open on Wall Street on Friday following a traumatic day across global stock markets as investors sold off over fears the European debt crisis was spreading to Spain and Italy and economic data out of the US pointed to a slowdown in growth in the world’s [...]

Investors fear latest economic downturn

Two years after the last recession ended, Wall Street is showing rising fear that the U.S. economy could be headed for a new downturn.Stock prices plummeted in the U.S. and Europe on Tuesday, driving the Dow Jones industrial average to its lowest level since March and to its longest losing streak — eight straight sessions [...]

Debt Downgrade Unlikely to Push Interest Rates Higher

The humiliation of a credit rating downgrade for the U.S. would exact some psychological damage but is widely viewed as less likely to cause any actual carnage on interest rates.
Few fixed-income experts are looking for a major surge in rates even if Standard & Poor’s follows through on its threats to cut the US rating [...]

TSX decrease amid U.S. economic worries

The Toronto stock market was slightly lower mid-afternoon Wednesday while commodity prices backed off as another raft of economic data failed to reassure investors about the state of the U.S. economy.The S&P/TSX composite index was well off early lows, down 39.6 points at 12,712.72 after earlier plunging as much as 184 points. The TSX Venture [...]