Gains on Wall Street overnight and in Tokyo this morning helped the market recover.

Hong Kong took a lead from Wall Street, Tokyo and other overseas markets, and this explains gains this morning.

The sharp rally on Wall Street is filtering through the currency market and lifting the U.S. dollar.

In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.

Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world's largest financial institutions and play a crucial role in the housing market.

There's no good reason that reliably liberal states should be electing senators as friendly to Wall Street as Cory Booker.