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Mitt Romney says they're "job creators" and vows to come to their aid as president. Newt Gingrich visited them on his "jobs and growth" bus tour. President Barack Obama calls them "the engine of our economy."
The Dow has edged teasingly close to 13,000, a marker it hasn't reached since before the financial crisis brought the U.S. economy to its knees.
Is the great profit engine of corporate America running out of steam?
If you like Apple's stock, you're going to love its suppliers.
After wild price swings that left investors bewildered and not a cent richer last year, stocks are rising again, and calm has settled over the market like blue skies after a storm.
It's losing business to Google and Facebook. Its stock has gone nowhere since 2008. It just announced its fourth CEO in five years. It's enough to make investors replace the exclamation point in the logo with a question mark.
The good news is that Wall Street experts think stock prices will rise more than 10 percent next year. The bad news is that they expected big gains in 2011 and got nearly zero instead.
Encouraging economic reports pushed stocks higher Thursday. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 61 points, its third gain in a row.
The bond market is said to be populated with worried, glass-half-empty types. And Pimco, the world's largest bond fund manager, is never shy about making the big picture look pretty bleak. The thing is, they keep getting it right.
Until this week, the fate of Europe seemed to hang on the decisions of three power brokers — the president of France, the chancellor of Germany and the head of the European Central Bank.
In a Dec. 1 story about corporate scandal and vanished wealth since Enron's collapse a decade ago, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Tyco International filed for bankruptcy in 2002. The company never filed for bankruptcy.
The world's bond buyers have turned on Europe's deeply indebted governments and fled to another deeply indebted government across the Atlantic -- the U.S. As a result, U.S borrowing costs have plunged to historic lows while rising rates in Europe have many worried about a catastrophic financial crisis.
Hardly a day goes by without some politician or pundit pointing out that companies are hoarding cash — roughly $3 trillion of it. If only they would spend it, the thinking goes, the economy might get better.
After countless new rules designed to make Wall Street safer, it's come to this: Another securities firm has collapsed from risky, poorly disclosed bets.
After 14 summit meetings, stock market turmoil and even a fistfight between Italian lawmakers, European leaders have finally agreed on a rescue package that will stop the debt crisis there from dragging the world into recession.
Encouraging news from Europe helped ignite stock prices in October. This week, investors will shift their focus to U.S. economic data, which might temper their exuberance.
Are investors overreacting to the prospect of a recession?
Just how turbulent is the stock market? More than half a trillion dollars in paper gains were made and lost within just two weeks in September. The S&P 500 jumped 5 percent in the week ending Sep. 16, the second best week this year. The next week it plunged 6 percent, the second worst week this year.
Its economy is smaller than that of many U.S. states. It's better known for olive oil and souvlaki than high finance. It last strode global affairs 2,400 years ago, when men wore togas.
For investors, August was one for the record books — but not in a good way.
Maybe Warren Buffett can strike a deal to buy the entire stock market, too.
Should you buy or sell Apple?
Maybe gold isn't so safe after all.
The stock market is starting to feed economic fear, not just reflect it.
Is it time to sell everything or buy with abandon?
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