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In the last full trading day before Christmas, stocks brought joy to the investment world, delivering the December boost investors had hoped for. Sources of holiday cheer included strong earnings, signs of healthy consumer spending and a possible capital infusion for Merrill Lynch, one of several Wall Street firms struggling ...

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Markets shuddered Friday at the notion that the latest cycle of Fed rat ...

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Stock ended the week in a lackluster fashion, as investors held their breath in anticipation of the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate decision coming on Tuesday. The blue-chip average rose 5% over the past two weeks and is now ahead 9.3% so far this year, but still below its record close on October 9th. < ...

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Another crazy week! First we officially hit correction (major stock indexes went down 10% from its recent high). Then we have got biggest two-day rally in five years. What should we expect next?

Wall Street Journal published very interesting analysis of 116 previous corrections. Apparently once market fal ...

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Stocks ended a rocky week on a positive note, rallying in a short-ended post-Thanksgiving session marked by thin trading activity amid hopes for better times in the retail and financial sectors.

US financial markets were closed on Thursday for Thanksgiving, and the stock market closed ...

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Troubling news about consumer spending as the holiday shopping season builds to a crescendo has kept stocks under pressure in the past few weeks. Those worries were fed by high energy prices, a dismal housing market and a spate of big losses by Wall Street banks. As a result those worries sent investors from stock into the r ...

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A new fear is helping fuel the latest stock-market rout: that booming global growth may have trouble pulling US markets out of their swoon this time around.

Over the summer, when shaky credit markets first sent US stocks lower, strong economic growth in China, India and Europe, together with intervention b ...

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A surprising surge in October payrolls suggested a U.S. economy running at two speeds with strength in the service sector offsetting weakness from a plummeting housing sector and gyrating credit markets.
 
Employers added 166,00 jobs in October, the Labor Department said, the mo ...

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The dollar fell to a fresh low against the euro Friday as more weak U.S. data increased expectations the Federal Reserve will cut its benchmark interest rate in the coming week to deal with a sliding economy. A University of Michigan/Reuters survey showe ...