The price of key ingredient in white paint is declining at a faster pace, signaling that a pickup in manufacturing activity could lose some steam. Titanium dioxide prices fell 7.3 percent over the 12 months ending in August, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. That suggests the pace of home ...

Let’s take care of some old business first. When I suggested a closer look at long positions in GE and BAC last week, I did not expect each of them to spike violently in two days. That was part luck. The other half of what I explained ended with the following ...