By: JeeYeon ParkCNBC.com Writer Stocks closed in negative territory in thin, shortened trading Friday as investors were reluctant to go long ahead of the weekend and amid ongoing worries over the euro zone. The Dow and S&P posted their worst Tha… more »

The Weekly Standard By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON Throughout the Obamacare debate, President Obama repeatedly promised, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.” Now, Gallup reports that from the first quarter of 2010 (whe… more »

MoneyNews.com   An unofficial gauge of human misery in the United States rose last month to a 28-year high as Americans struggled with rising inflation and high unemployment. The misery index — which is simply the sum of the country's inflation and… more »

The Wall Street Journal / Market Watch / Mark Hulbert The last time the Dow Jones Industrial Average /quotes/zigman/627449/delayed DJIA -4.31%   did that, in fact, was Feb. 22, 1978, when Jimmy Carter was president and the country was struggling to… more »

AP Feb. 22, 2011: The Iranian navy frigate IS Alvand passes through the Suez canal at Ismailia, Egypt. The frigate, accompanied by the replenishment ship IS Kharg, entered the Suez Canal on Tuesday enroute to Syria, officials said, the first time in thre… more »