The Cream of the Mid-Cap Crop

Mid-cap stocks are sitting pretty compared with their larger counterparts. S&P's latest screen identifies 22 attractive names in the group

Don't Let the Rules Overtax Your Retirement

When planning for retirement, make sure you know how these rules could change your financial picture after age 70

Jobs: A Slowing Slowdown?

Action Economics expects a larger decline in payrolls in May, but encouraging news in other parts of the month's employment report

Stashing Cash at Higher Rates

Though rates have dropped dramatically, some online banks are offering as much as 3.5% for savings accounts. It pays to look around

Stocks End Mixed

Worries eased over Lehman Brothers, but bond insurers faced more trouble. Smuckers agreed to buy Procter & Gamble's Folgers coffee business

Movers: MBIA, Ambac, American Express, Lehman Brothers, Hovnanian, Williams-Sonoma

Wednesday's stocks in the news

Analyst Actions: Tibco Software, Guess, SAIC

S&P Picks and Pans: Lehman Brothers, UAL, Hovnanian, J.M. Smucker, Williams-Sonoma

Analysts' opinions on stocks in the news Wednesday