August 17th, 2011
U.S. stocks sank in a thinly traded session Wednesday as weakness in the technology sector dragged the market lower.
The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) was down 47 points, or 0.4%, in afternoon trading. The S&P 500 (SPX) eased 5 points, or less than 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite (COMP) fell 27 points, or [...]
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August 17th, 2011
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 [...]
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August 17th, 2011
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 [...]
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August 11th, 2011
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 [...]
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August 11th, 2011
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. [...]
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August 8th, 2011
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 [...]
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August 8th, 2011
US Stock market futures pointed to a sharply lower open on Wall Street Monday following on from last weeks downgrade of America’s credit rating from triple-A for the first time in history by ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P).
S&P came in for significant criticism from US Treasury [...]
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August 5th, 2011
Investors looking for reasons for optimism after the worst stock-market sell-off since the 2008 financial crisis probably won’t find it in Friday’s July jobs report.Economists forecast that employers added only 90,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.2 percent, according to a survey by FactSet.
That would mark an improvement over [...]
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August 5th, 2011
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 [...]
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