Investment
  • What CEO Musical Chairs Means to the Job Market

    By Michelle Hirsch, The Fiscal Times

    usiness analysts and search firms say 2012 will be the year of CEO musical chairs, particularly in the health care and financial services industries, which are both coming to terms with new...

  • Battle of the Tax Plans: Obama vs. Romney

    By Michelle Hirsch, The Fiscal Times

    President Obama took a preemptive swipe at one of his likely 2012 opponents, Mitt Romney, by releasing a plan to overhaul the U.S. corporate tax code on the same day as Romney is introducing his own...

  • Will $4 Gas Have Oil Companies Gushing Profits?

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    Are gasoline prices headed for $4 a gallon? Californians are already feeling the pain of such hefty fuel prices, long before gasoline usually soars ahead of the so-called summer driving season, when...

  • Dow 13,000: How High Will It go?

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    Major U.S. stock market indexes are starting to bear an uncanny resemblance to the Energizer bunny: They just keep going and going and going – going higher, that is. A morning rally pushed the Dow...

  • Dow 13,000-Another Case of Irrational Exuberance?

    By Caroline Valetkevitch, Reuters

    If upcoming earnings from U.S. retailers are as unimpressive as the rest of the profit season has been, Wall Street could face a tough time justifying a stock market at nine-month highs.