Is trading dead in stock market?

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — It’s been eerily quiet on stock trading desks around Wall Street and across the United States. In fact, it’s been the slowest and lowest volume start to the year since 2007.
During the first 10 trading days of 2012, roughly 6.8 billion shares a day changed hands in the United States, down [...]

Apple Misses Big on Earnings, Revenue; Shares Tumble

Apple missed big with its fourth-quarter results, a rare feat for the iPhone and iPad maker, which usually topples forecasts.
The miss stunned Wall Street: Apple shares [AAPL 422.24 2.25 (+0.54%) ] tumbled after-hours and were down more than 7 percent at one point. (Click here for the latest [...]

US stocks market rise after more strong earnings

US stocks have resumed their rally after a series of earnings reports came in better than expected.
Target Corp, Staples Inc and Dell Inc all reported earnings for last quarter that were above analysts’ forecasts.
Companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 are on track to report higher profits for a ninth straight quarter.
But [...]

Shares rebound on Australian stock market

THE Australian share market closed higher today, buoyed by bargain-hunters who helped to make up ground from the previous day’s loss.
Official figures showing slower than expected wages growth helped calm inflationary expectations and also provided a boost for investors.
At 16:15 (AEST) the benchmark [...]

Efforts to calm European stock markets crash, but fail

French bankers and officials scrambled to calm nerves on Thursday after two days of whipsaw trading that saw their banks’ market value fall and rise by billions of euros.By late in the day those efforts appeared to settle markets jittery about the health of French banks and [...]

U.S. stock market upcoming days bounce off lows after claims

Economists looked by MarketWatch had expected the Labor Department to report an increase in initial claims, to 410,000.Trading in U.S. stock futures followed a choppy pattern with investors on edge after the previous session’s plunge, while shares of Cisco Systems Inc. [...]

Asia stocks slammed after U.S. stock market decrease

Roland Randall, strategist at TD Securities, said the U.S. downgrade was “another tick in the box for the long-term bears, and that’s the real concern — that it makes people a bit more pessimistic on the long-term economic outlook.”
China’s Shanghai Composite Index [...]

Wall Street plunge could worsen economy’s downtrend

The economic anxiety is signaling by two-week plunge in stock prices  , but it’s also compounding the problem: Lower stock prices are shrinking Americans’ wealth, rattling their confidence and making them less inclined to spend.And employers may become even slower to hire.
The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 513 points, or 4 percent, Thursday on fears [...]

Stock market dives 513 points; O.C. responds

513 points plunged today of Dow Jones industrial amid renewed worries about a possible double-dip recession, the U.S. deficit and Europe’s continuing debt problems.The S&P 500 fell 60 points to 1,200. The Nasdaq declined 137 points to 2,556.It was the worst day for the market since the October 2008 when stocks sank as widening mortgage [...]

Debt ceiling deadlock could decrease interest rates

The nation is just days away from the debt ceiling deadline and   no one knows exactly what will happen when the borrowing limit is reached. But even in the worst case scenarios, many experts think investors will flock to U.S. Treasuries.That possibility would mean lower borrowing costs for the government, not the spike in interest [...]