Cheapest Stocks in 12 Years Greet Investors After S&P 500's Summer Swoon U.S. investors are returning from summer vacation to the cheapest stock market in almost 12 years, and some of the biggest fund managers say they're ready to load up on shares of technology, energy and industrial companies.
Fed Faulted for Letting Asset Prices Surge; Issing Says `Tide Is Turning' Federal Reserve officials, wrestling with a housing recession that jeopardizes U.S. growth, got an earful from critics at a weekend retreat arguing they should use regulation and interest rates to prevent asset-price bubbles.