Something about the deal smelled fishy. China Marine Food Group Ltd., a Chinese company then on the New York Stock Exchange, spent $27 million in January 2010 to acquire a firm whose main asset was "algae-based drink know-how." The weird thing: Three months earlier, the beverage formula had been

The New York Stock Exchange this month. Stock markets slumped early Wednesday, extending four straight days of losses amid a stretch of volatility in international trading and routing investors to the refuge of government bonds. The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted more than 300 points, to

Earnings season is in full gear next week and that means its earnings time. The time of reckoning is here for the market. Last week felt like someone pulled the fire alarm. The Dow suffered its worst drop of the year and ended the week 2.7% lower. The best explanation for the sell-off was fears of

The bulls have perpetrated a fantasy over the last few months. It went something like this: You can safely ignore the market declines on foreign bourses and the slowdown of economies in Asia, Europe and the emerging world because the American economy and U.S. stocks were an island of their own.

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange September 2, 2014. U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 touching a new record high on optimism a resolution would be reached between Ukraine and Russia and data showing manufacturing activity continues to strengthen. Ukraine