With the recent stock market turmoil, one has to hope people didn't look at what was happening to Google stock late today and assume it was just another stock tanking. Especially not when the price of the stock dropped to as low as $0.01 during trading just before market close.

Last night the Federal Reserve announced yet another bailout, this time of AIG. The Fed has agreed to a two-year, $85 billion loan to AIG in exchange for a nearly 80% stake in the company.

Diversity keeps you warm. At least that is true while you're having a shower in youth hostels. If you like, this sums up the research project just published by scientists from the Universities of Fribourg and Bonn. Their result is not as trivial as it sounds. Ultimately it shows that heterogeneity provides stability, whether this is in a shower, in power grids or even on the stock market.

The week ended quietly on Wall Street, says A. G. Edwards market commentator Alfred E. Goldman, corporate vice president and chief market strategist at A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.

As a director of Montello Resources (TSXV: MEO), a financial journalist and seasoned stock speculator, Marc Davis doesn’t get particularly caught up in the excitement of most oil & gas drill projects any more. But there are rare exceptions.

The average value of Americans’ 401(k) plans will be substantially higher in real terms by the year 2040 even if stock market returns fall short of their historical values, according to new research by a team of economists from MIT, Harvard and Dartmouth.

Investing Systems announced the results from Friday's (July 20) scan of the market for the Stock Picker RT software.

We monitor the stock market, the weather, our blood pressure. Yet environmental monitoring is often criticized as being unscientific, expensive, and wasteful. Scientists argue that environmental monitoring is a crucial part of science in the review, "Who needs environmental monitoring"" Gary Lovett (Institute of Ecosystem Studies) and colleagues from several universities and US government offices contributed to the review.

Hong Kong stocks erased early gains on Tuesday, June 5th, as a further sell-off in mainland equities hit China plays, but oil producers marched higher amid advancing crude prices and recent broker upgrades.

Following the signing of the Cooperation Agreement, the three parties will commence the detailed work to construct the various indices.