Promising quarterly results sent H-P's shares up more than 17% on Thursday, but checking off the next agenda items are likely to prove even tougher for H-P.

In the latest major shake-up at Sam Zell's Equity International real-estate investment firm, three senior executives resigned this week, raising new questions about the firm's future.

McDonald's CEO Don Thompson, presiding over his first annual shareholders meeting since taking the helm, last summer, defended Ronald McDonald and the company's efforts to market to children.

Cablevision CEO James Dolan called the police on union protesters who disrupted the company's annual meeting.

Dover Corp. said it plans to spin off its fast-growing consumer-electronics unit that makes parts for smartphones like Apple's iPhone, in a surprising move to sharpen the company's focus on its industrial roots.

New research shows why a mentor who's good for some

could be bad for you.

To earn yields of 5% or more, investors are turning to more complex fare, such as high-yield corporate bonds, preferred stocks and real-estate investment trusts.

The stock market is expecting a massive new economic boom while the bond market sees the economy remaining in a funk. They can't both be right, but they can be wrong, writes Brett Arends.