Wall Street

Reviewing the most negative and positive headlines from Wall Street and the business world this year.

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

What have Wall Street economists learned from watching Washington lawmakers duke it out over things like extending the payroll tax cuts?

Polls show that Americans are not paying much attention to the debt crisis in Europe.

Bankers and traders could receive as much as 30 percent less in year-end bonuses. Some just hope they keep their jobs amid mounting layoffs

The former billionaire hedge fund manager convicted of insider trading reports to prison today. It isn't so cushy at Club Fed anymore, as more upscale federal prisons used to be called.

this week, President Obama's expected to put the pressure on Congress to approve his nominee to head the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. But Republicans vow to hold up any nominee until the bureau itself gets overhauled.

Reviewing the week's headlines on Wall Street. This week: Today's latest jobs numbers and whether the central banks' plans to save the euro will work.

David Brancaccio discusses why bonuses are expected to go down this year, and how Washington plans to regulate executive compensation.

Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland and David Lazarus, consumer columnist for The Los Angeles Times answer listener questions.