The few people left on Wall Street in the coming week will likely debate whether the stock market is on a course to new highs, or just in the final stages of a head fake rally that will end in pain when September rolls around.
Stocks come off their worst week of the new year with investors wondering if the selloff is the start of something bigger, or just a pause.
James Paulsen the chief investment strategist at WELLS CAPITAL Management says that it was a year where fear basically trumped fundamentals.
Merry Christmas, markets. This might be the Santa rally you were hoping for, but it may be fleeting.
Oil prices, which rose to levels just short of 100 dollars a barrel on Friday, are holding firm as protests against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's regime enter the seventh day.
The most significant arrival at this year's Detroit auto show is something of a throwback to the heady days of the late 1990s: optimism that growth is accelerating in an infamously cyclical industry.