The European Continent's financial system remains vulnerable to the prospect that stampedes of customers could yank their deposits from institutions perceived as shaky.

The European Continent's financial system remains vulnerable to the prospect that stampedes of customers could yank their deposits from institutions perceived as shaky.

Chief executives increasingly are being paid based on their companies' financial results and share prices, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.

The Facebook IPO revealed shortcomings at Nasdaq OMX and threatened to saddle some brokers with significant losses, in the most recent of a series of setbacks for the exchange.

Investors in U.S. Treasurys stand a good chance of losing money over time. And yet they can't seem to get enough of Uncle Sam's paper.

Some CEOs delivered more bang for the buck, while others were well rewarded despite poor results.

One investor got lucky when he hit the wrong buttons and mistakenly canceled his Facebook share order Friday.

Sometimes a corporate motto succeeds on many levels. So it is with "Never Stop Improving," adopted late last year by Lowe's Cos.

The U.S. dollar and the yen are likely to find support against their counterparts this week as the tensions over Greece's membership in the euro zone keep investors in a cautious mood.

As shareholders scrutinize links between executive pay and corporate performance, many companies continue to quietly shower chief executives with benefits such as corporate-jet use, event tickets and chauffeurs.

Apple's Tim Cook, Oracles's Larry Ellison and CBS's Les Moonves top the Journal's ranking of highest-paid chief executives.

For the fifth year The Wall Street Journal has partnered with Hay Group, a global management consulting firm, on its annual survey of CEO Compensation.