Bailout Report

Not putting all your eggs in one basket is the most basic principle of investing. It also may be the hardest to get right.

Stocks with payouts had been trailing their yield-free rivals for most of the year, but are now pulling ahead. And the trend may last.

Stocks fell for a third straight day and the dollar rose as investors sought to remove some risk from their portfolios, pushing some short-term interest rates to near zero.

Share prices have plunged and payouts have slowed, but some analysts say investors should reconsider jumping back in.

Federal securities and futures regulators struck a deal that could pave the way for Eurex to offer U.S. investors access to its VDAX-NEW volatility index, a European measure of investor anxiety.

Florida regulators closed Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida in the 124th U.S. bank failure.

The euro recouped some of its overnight losses against the dollar late Friday morning as investors adjusted positions ahead of the shortened U.S. Thanksgiving holiday week.

Treasury-bill rates are hovering near zero, and in some cases even turned negative—levels unseen since the peak of the financial crisis last year. But it isn't panic sending investors to the safety of short-term government debt.

Export demand buoys prices, but some say dollar is artificial prop.

The IPOs of U.S. online education company Archipelago Learning and Chinese hotel chain 7 Days Group attracted investors, while coal miner Cloud Peak and defense-technology firm Global Defense Technology & Systems didn't.