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Stocks take a tumble on Euro fears, but commodities are hit even harder as oil and gold prices fall more than 5 percent on the day.

The Fed's decision to increase its transparency and make known its predictions about the economic future could have an impact on the way that we invest.

Unemployment figures improved today, inspiring media insistence that the long awaited recovery has finally arrived. The continues weakness in housing; however doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

In spite of a healthy underlying economy investors fear the Brazilian markets as weakness in the Eurozone and tenuous U.S. data color the landscape.

With the stock market showing some signs of strength in January, investors may want to look for discounted opportunities despite the ongoing uncertainty in Europe.

China stocks in Hong Kong opened the Year of the Dragon with a roar. Investors are now finding a number of reasons to regain their appetite for risk.

The last week brought a series of economic figures that appeared to show that the positive news from the end of last year might not be as strong as once thought.

The stock market has enjoyed quite a nice run so far this year, but sooner or later a correction will be on its way. Here's what investors and traders need to consider.

If the markets seem unpredictable these days, here's a rather predictable fact you might be able to build a trade from. But this is a today-only special!

The Libor scandal that has recently come out is certain to affect the finance industry for many years to come. Repercussions from fixing an industry standard rate go far beyond the initial top-level transactions that Barclay's and other leading financial institutions created. Everything from the derivative transactions to residential mortgages has been tied to the Libor, bringing into question the true size of the legal tsunami that is forming.

Inflation concerns have consumers everywhere worried about rising prices, but will these increasing prices hurt consumer staples stocks?

In a pre-policy meeting with RBI Governor D. Subbarao, FIEO President A. Sakthivel said urgent measures are required to bolster the exports sector, which has been severally affected by the global economic slowdown and currency fluctuation.

Traditional avenues for investing in retirement are looking overpopulated and inflated. Bill Gates recently found another avenue for retirement investing: closed-end funds that invest in a basket of inflation-linked securities.

Progress was made by European leaders over the weekend, but definitive plans are not expected until Wednesday. Investors should expect volatility until then

While there has been much talk and little action in Europe, investors seem to be optimistic. Netflix dropped over 30 percent after a dim quarterly report exposed the company's struggles.

Earnings from regional banks disappointed this week and while profits were improving, residual challenges from the financial crisis seem to be negatively impacting the bottom of lines of Comerica and M&T.

Hong Kong opened higher, but profit-taking after the recent major rally led to a broad-based retreat. However, lower turnover indicated selling pressure was not great.

The 2023 limits on earning for people receiving Social Security Disability (SSD) benefits are different from that for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients. The Social Security Administration administers both programs, but each program serves different groups of people. Social Security Disability (SSD) benefits are reserved for workers and former workers who become disabled either by an injury or illness that prevents them from working for at least 12 months. Eligibility for SSD benefits depends on whether the applicant worked and paid taxes for long enough and recently enough to earn the minimum number of work credits. Typically, it takes 10 years of work to accrue the required work credits, with half earned during the 10 years before filing a claim for SSD benefits. The Supplement Security Income (SSI), on the other hand, is available only to disabled people who have low income and very limited financial resources. Typically, SSI recipients will have been unable to become eligible for SSD benefits because their disability prevented them from working long enough to accumulate the required work credits. SSD and SSI Recipients Allowed to Earn Different Amounts Each of these programs has different rules and regulations that apply to how much a benefits recipient can earn and still continue to receive benefits. The only significant criteria that both program share is the definition of what constitutes a disability: According to the Social Security Administration, a disability is a medically determinable physical or mental impairment that last or is expected to last for 12 months (or results in death) and prevents the person from performing substantial gainful activities. Let's look at the Social Security Disability program first. For Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits, there is a monthly limit to how much you can earn through work activity, called the Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) limit. In 2023, the SGA limit for non-blind indiv

"We will get a major recession," Deutsche Bank economists wrote in a report to clients on Tuesday. and why is it important? Is the US economy heading for another recession? Will it be worse than the last time? Well, you might be witnessing these types of headlines all over the web, and this is all because US GDP fell by 1.4% by last quarter, stocks are dropping down, and Federal Reserve gears up to raise interest rates.