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While the markets closed today with a slight loss, they opened at a high point. This morning, the Dow broke 26,000 points for the first time in its 120 year history — and that’s after a year with practically no dips to speak of. But that lack of volatility has some market watchers a little […]

Amazon's stock fell 11 percent this morning following another sad earnings report.

Facebook will be added to the S&P 500. So what exactly does that mean?

The prestigious corporate club says the big retailer's stock, which has been listed on the S&P since the 1950s, is no longer representative of the index.

The high-end art market smoked traditional investing in 2011.

A graph of the stock market in 2011 looks like a contour map of Death Valley glued to the Himalayas. Despite huge swings, the S&P 500 index ended the year remarkably close to where it began.

For a quiet week on the markets, there was still enough going on the global headlines to bring things down.