NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Stocks are seen climbing to further highs next week, as the market turns to the kick-off of earnings season, and hopes abound that with an upbeat September jobs report and Wall Street write-downs the worst of this summer's credit crisis is finally past.
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. One important commitment of the Federal government is to help America's poorest children get access to health care. Most of these children are covered by Medicaid, which will spend more than $35 billion to help them this fiscal year. For children who do not qualify for Medicaid, but whose families are struggling, we have the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP.
BEAR MOUNTAIN, NY (MarketWatch) -- Start with some beautiful blue lakes (after the tourists have gone home), add in touches of fall color, some mountains, deserted roads, and a long line-up of 2008 cars and trucks. What you have is a nice way to usher in the New Year, at least on the automotive calendar.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Alcoa Inc. will usher in the unofficial start to the third-quarter earnings season late Tuesday, when the aluminum producer is expected to show earnings increasing at a modest pace, in a pattern likely to be repeated by companies other than lenders and home builders.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Stocks are seen climbing to further highs next week, as the market turns to the kick-off of earnings season, and hopes abound that with an upbeat September jobs report and Wall Street write-downs the worst of this summer's credit crisis is finally past.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Alcoa Inc. will usher in the unofficial start to the third-quarter earnings season late Tuesday, when the aluminum producer is expected to show earnings increasing at a modest pace, in a pattern likely to be repeated by companies other than lenders and home builders.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Treasurys sold off early on Friday, sending yields sharply higher, after the September employment report showed an in-line gain of 110,000 and large upward revisions of previous months.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- You don't have to quaff French wine in your dining room or go skiing in the Austrian Alps. At home or abroad, all Americans are feeling the same breeze from the dollar's recent sharp drop -- and some might even catch a chill from it.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Airline shares rose Friday, riding the crest of a rising stock market, pulled higher by an updated quarterly outlook by US Airways Group Inc.