Five Days: Watching Prices Swing in Health, Housing and Stocks
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Blue-chip stocks flirted with record highs, buoyed by record corporate profits and moderating energy prices.
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Views you can use to get clues on Tuesday's news.
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After a shallow, one-week dip, mortgage rates have risen to just about where they were two weeks ago. Rates are still low. The question is whether they are low enough to keep the housing market hot.
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After an extended summer vacation, Wall Street is expected to get back to its normal energetic pace this week with the release of August consumer price and retail sales reports.
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U.S. stocks were poised to open little changed on Friday as investors nervously awaited fresh data, including new home sales for July, for clues on the health of the economy.
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A look through history shows us the effects of politics on the market.
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Investor's Business Daily - The ABC News/Washington Post Consumer Comfort Index shot up 5 points over the last week to -7, the best in several weeks. Some 39% of respondents said now&#39;s a good time to buy, a big rise from 33% last week. Americans also were more upbeat about the economy and their own finances. Gasoline prices, which have fallen back below $3 a gallon, likely are a big factor.
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Stock jumps despite revelation of $5.5B mortgage-related writedowns.
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Investors looked ahead to U.S. reports  on housing and producer prices on Friday for guidance on the  state of the world's leading economy after a raft of soft data,  while red-hot equities cooled a bit in both Europe and Asia.
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These top stocks had big price cuts in the past month.
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Business & money: Index shows 0.5% slip this month, 4.8% rise for year Nationwide predicts prices will be static in 2008
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Stocks gained on Wednesday, with the   S&P 500 briefly touching a five-year high, amid optimism about   corporate profits and the outlook for inflation, after the   Federal Reserve decided to keep interest rates unchanged.
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Sure, up-and-down price swings in stocks, bonds, or any other investment can be vicious. The more extreme the fluctuations, the worse the pain.
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Stocks rose on Tuesday and were set to break a three-day losing streak, as nearly a week of steep declines left investors with the notion that for now, stocks are cheap.
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Stock futures gained on Friday as oil   slipped to a new five-month low and investors looked to end the   week on a high after equities suffered in the previous two days   on uncertainty over U.S. interest rate policy.
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This week will see the release of October new and existing home sales, a measure of strength in the housing industry. But the short holiday week will also leave investors looking ahead to the holiday travel season.
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EYES ON THE FED The main news of the week will be the Federal Open Market Committee meeting, at which the central bankers are widely expected to keep interest rates steady (Wednesday). Last weekÂs news that the Consumer Price Index had risen 0.2 percent in August, down from 0.4 percent in July, looked to some economists like validation that inflation was slowing, a trend that would not tempt the Fed to raise rates. But the Producer Price Index for August also comes out this week, helping to inform any decision (Tuesday). Other reports this week will include the second-quarter current-account deficit (Monday), August housing starts (Tuesday) and leading economic indicators (Thursday).