Hao Li

U.S. stocks surged in the last hour of trading on a report that European Union officials are coordinating a rescue for European banks.

With the economy slowing and the markets crashing, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke put the burden squarely on Congress to act.

Tuesday’s early morning drop has taken the S&P 500 Index down over 20 percent from its May 2 high. Although there is no official definition of a bear market, one commonly accepted metric is falling 20 percent over an extended period.

U.S stock futures are down on Tuesday as Eurozone debt crisis fears intensified on authorities’ inability to step up and calm the situation.

European finance ministers are considering making banks take bigger losses on Greek debt and have postponed a vital aid payment to Athens until mid-November, setting up a crunch point in the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis.

The Occupy Wall Street Protest has somewhat succeeded. Still, it's not a huge success yet. It's not close to having the impact of the 1963 March on Washington or the U.S. labor movement in the early 20th century.

Starting in early 2012, Bank of America will charge a $5 monthly fee for debit card usage. The fees will be assessed on a month-to-month basis, will not include ATM cash withdrawals and will not affect premium customer accounts.

The $5 Bank of America debit card fee has sparked rage that hasn't been seen since the height of the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009.

When I told former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson that President Barack Obama used to run three miles per day, he wasn't impressed. I do the equivalent of running 15 miles a day. That's 45 miles biking, said Johnson, an avid triathlete.

U.S. stocks concluded the third quarter on a bad note. For the quarter, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 1,500.96 points, or 12.09 percent, its worst performance since the first quarter of 2009.

U.S. stocks are the asset class to be in, Jeremy Siegel, a Finance Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, told CNBC.

Flashed on the side of a building here in Shanghai's historic Bund district, an image shows a giant ship named Hony, setting sail from China, traveling past the Statue of Liberty, past Big Ben, and bringing home crates of golden coins.

Gold prices tanked 11 percent so far in September, shaking the confidence of some investors and spectators. “Gold is not a safe-haven asset” and “gold is no longer a one-way bet” are common exclaims.

Major markets around the world are in liquidation mode, meaning investors long risk-assets are still trying to sell out of their positions, Craig Ferguson, a currency hedge fund manager at Antipodean Capital Management in Melbourne, told Bloomberg TV.

When Stratfor, a geopolitical intelligence firm, takes on the euro crisis and Greece, you know it's going to offer a fresh perspective.

The Occupy Wall Street protesters are angry.

U.S. stocks are in a bear market, Mikio Kumada, global strategist at LGT Capital Management in Singapore, told Bloomberg TV.

One may be tempted to think that a bailout from the European Central Bank (ECB) will send the euro higher against the U.S. dollar because it will calm Eurozone debt crisis fears.

The Occupy Wall Street protesters aren’t actually protesting on Wall Street.

Europe's never-ending debt saga has investors girding for volatile, unsteady currency markets for years to come.

Despite the worsening European debt crisis, forex services firm Faros Trading recommends investors to go long the battered euro against the surging U.S. dollar.

Gold prices are plunging in September partly because struggling Eurozone sovereign states are dumping [it] in the open market, speculated Michael Pento, president of Pento Portfolio Strategies.

European government officials and financial institutions are starting to make dramatic steps needed to manage their way through a debt crisis that threatens to drag the world economy into recession.

Gold prices fell below their 100-day moving average ($1,635) and barely stayed above their 200-day moving average ($1,525) as the decline continued on Monday.

Speculators have piled into the U.S. dollar in the wake of September’s global economic and financial turmoil.

UBS investors welcomed the Swiss bank's choice of caretaker chief executive, Sergio Ermotti, on Monday after Oswald Gruebel resigned in the wake of a $2.3 billion rogue trading scandal and cleared the way for a major overhaul of the investment bank.

The European debt crisis doesn't have to exist because there are a number of feasible solutions to fix the mess.

The European debt crisis has deteriorated to a point where global leaders are publicly urging the Eurozone to get its act together.

The U.S. economy is sick right now because there is over $5 trillion of dead money.