Jewellery demand buoys gold but dollar a risk. Gold, a key player in the commodities boom earlier in the year, has turned in recent weeks into one of its most visible losers.

Saudi stocks open up to foreign investment. Provided by 7DAYS.ae Saudi Arabian shares seemed to begin a rally yesterday as the bourse began allowing foreigners to buy shares listed on its stock market through licensed intermediaries.On the first trading..

Southwest to shave 6% of flights. Southwest Airlines, which grew at double-digit rates for years, will downshift into slow reverse this January.

Small-caps' gains raise some hopes for recovery. When Wall Street gets a whiff of recovery in small-capitalization stocks, hopeful questions often pop up about whether a nascent rebound for the overall market is taking hold.

Fed Keeps Watch on Wall St. - From the Inside. In the two months since the government rescue of Bear Stearns, the Federal Reserve has built on the fly a new system of monitoring investment banks, radically redefining the central bank's role overseeing Wall Street.

Bernanke: Financial System Must Be Strengthened. JACKSON HOLE, Wyo., Aug. 22 -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke Friday called for a strengthening of the nuts and bolts of the financial system and said the Fed and other regulators should focus more on the stability of the overall system, rather than just the health of individual compan..

Economic Challenges Draw Out Divisions at Fed. As Federal Reserve policymakers sit down this morning to begin deciding whether to adjust interest rates, they do so at a time of exceptional internal disagreement over what approach the central bank should take.

Key Early Days for New Hires. You've sifted through employment ads, interviewed for jobs and finally accepted a position. Then comes the real test -- your first 30 to 90 days at work.

Fresh credit fears hit financials, unnerve market. U.S. stocks fell sharply on Monday as credit concerns hounded financial stocks while global growth worries hurt big technology and industrial companies.

Bernanke Urges Broader Powers For Central Bank. JACKSON HOLE, Wyo., Aug. 22 -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke on Friday laid out his views of how the central bank should position itself to try to prevent or ease future financial crises. But he acknowledged that any such changes are fraught with new risks of their own.

Seeing Red: Buffett, Others Clash On Danger Posed by U.S. Debt. OMAHA, Aug. 22 -- Two long-term views of the U.S. economy were on vivid display at a town hall meeting here Thursday night, with the world's richest person on one side and pretty much everybody else on the other.

China shares fall, tracking Wall St. decline. Chinese stocks fell Tuesday as investors reacted to overnight losses on Wall Street and to reports of slowing growth in corporate earnings.

Fed Releases Details Of Bear Stearns Rescue. The Federal Reserve said it was scrambling to prevent a "contagion" from infecting the nation's financial system when it took unprecedented actions this spring to back a Bear Stearns rescue package and provide emergency loans to big Wall Street firms.

Meet Sir John Templeton. You may not have heard of billionaire Sir John Templeton, who died recently at 95, but he is arguably the world's most important investor, known for his philanthropy, faith and intellectual curiosity.

Wall St. loses momentum as financial woes persist. US stocks lost momentum in the past week as financial woes continued to weigh down Wall Street with investors looking ahead to a busy week of economic news.

Treasurys advance on more financial worries. NEW YORK Prices of Treasury bonds advanced Monday as investors sought the safety of government securities amid worries about the credit crisis' impact on the financial sector.

Japan shares snap four-day losing streak. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 212.62 points, or 1.68 percent, to 12,878.66. The broader Topix index advanced 1.88 percent to 1,239.25. Bargain-hunting investors boosted shares in nearly all sectors, with..

Proposed Change in Global Trading Rule Raises Risks. The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a new rule that might have passed you by. I'm alerting you here because it speaks volumes about where trading is going in the United States. For many, it offers new opportunities. We'll also be importing new risks, in the future, that we may..

Two Fed Myths That Need Debunking. There are two things you may have heard about the Federal Reserve Board, both of which are wrong.

This week, investors eye oil prices, spending data. It was another seesaw week on Wall Street, but it ended with a jolt of good news: a $6-a-barrel tumble in oil. This week, investors will be watching to see if crude extends its drop or bounces back up again.Stocks have been moving largely in an opposite lockstep with oil for the past few months. Financial sector developments, of course, can thwart the pattern _ investors react to practically any report involving such names as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. _ but Wall Street has made it clear: It likes when oil prices fall.