Gold is trading up nicely today. Gold prices have moved up $9.50 an ounce today to $1,114.0o an ounce. As the recession has hit the dollar hard, gold prices have been steadily moving higher, and it looks to close out the first quarter with its sixth consecutive quarterly gain. The dollar has been pretty weak, and continued to move lower today on news that the economy shed more jobs during March that ...

We have been hearing a lot of rumors that the recession is finally over, and we get another hint at this today with a new report that the majority of economists believe that the recession has ended but econonic recovery is going to be slow. According to a poll by National Association for Business Economics, 80% of economists that it polled stated that they believe the recession has ended and the ...

The first quarter was a strange three months for the stock market. All the major indexes finished in the green to cap off a period that saw massive swings in both directions. The DOW lost about 25% between the second week of January and early March, but has made up a lot of lost ground over the past couple of weeks, as investors are starting to believe that the worst is ...

For the first time in over 11 years, the market dropped below the psychological 7,000 mark today, as investors continue to weigh concerns over a struggling financial sector, and worry over how deep and long lasting the current session is going to wind up being. When the smoke finally settled this afternoon, the DOW showed a hefty 4.2% loss, closing all the way down at 6,763.29.  The NASDAQ also took a ...