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Stocks Plunge On Europe Worries

Reuters | Posted 05.31.2012

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NEW YORK, May 30 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks sank on Wednesday as surging bond yields in Spain and Italy ratcheted up tensions in financial markets abou...

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Economic Ambiguity

Michael Farr | Posted 05.03.2012

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Michael Farr

We continue to believe that investors are underestimating the risks inherent to the bond market at this stage in the game. Bond investors are not being compensated for the risks they are assuming when they are not even able to earn the expected rate of inflation.

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Investors Run To Surprising Place

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.17.2012

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Investors around the world are getting more anxious, and they're choosing to put their money in an unusual safe haven: the U.S. stock market. A new...

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Dow Takes Huge Plunge

AP | JOSHUA FREED | Posted 05.06.2012

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Stocks suffered their biggest losses in three months Tuesday, the first hiccup in a strong and steady rally to start the year. Wall Street worried abo...

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S&P Flat For The Year

Reuters | Posted 02.29.2012

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* S&P flat on year, Dow higher, Nasdaq lower * European shares post steepest annual fall in 3 yrs * Bank of America is Dow's worst perform...

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Time Running Out For S&P 500 To End Positively, As Euro Crisis Looms

Posted 12.18.2011

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - With two weeks left in the trading year, the euro zone debt crisis will remain the primary impediment to pushing the S&P 500 ...

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U.S. Stocks Slide After Big European Announcement

AP | MATT CRAFT | Posted 02.07.2012

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NEW YORK — Financial markets slumped Thursday after the head of Europe's central bank dashed hopes that the bank was preparing to help extinguis...

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Goldman To Suffer More Than Other Banks, Analysts Say

Reuters | Lauren Tara LaCapra | Posted 11.12.2011

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Analysts have been slashing earnings estimates for big Wall Street banks recently, particularly for Goldman Sachs, as unpredictable trading markets an...

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U.S. Stocks Tumble Amid Global Markets Rout After S&P Downgrade

AP | STAN CHOE | Posted 10.08.2011

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NEW YORK — Fear has taken over on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 634.76 points Monday, the first trading day since Standard...

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Stock Market Ends Worst Week In A Year

Posted 09.28.2011

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(Caroline Valetkevitch) - Stocks ended the worst week in a year as time runs out on Washington to reach agreement before the government loses its ...

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Manufacturing Growth Picks Up For First Time In Four Months

Posted 08.31.2011

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NEW YORK (Leah Schnurr) - The pace of growth in the manufacturing sector picked up for the first time in four months in June, a sign of optimism f...

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U.S. Manufacturing Orders Rose Last Month, Easing Fears Of Slowdown

Posted 08.24.2011

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New orders for U.S. manufactured goods and a gauge of business spending plans rose in May, easing fears of a sharp slowdown in factory activity. ...

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Stocks Of Socialized Countries Have Outperformed U.S. Since Reagan Era

HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 08.22.2011

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American traders aren't likely to take kindly to the suggestion that big government might be good for the stock market. But data from a paper on the j...

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Rising Dollar Could Mean Trouble For Stocks

Posted 07.23.2011

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NEW YORK (Walter Brandimarte) - Signs of a Wall Street sell-off are all over the place, but U.S. stocks might well survive another week relatively...

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Stocks give up gains after 4-day rally

AP | STEPHEN BERNARD and TIM PARADIS | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Wall Street's big rally fizzled _ and maybe that's OK. Analysts said Monday's pullback after a four-session surge didn't necessarily...

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China Stimulus Package Spurs Stock Surge

AP | PAN PYLAS | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — Stock markets in Europe and Asia rebounded Wednesday amid mounting hopes that China will soon announce a big stimulus package that coul...

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Warren Buffett's Metric Says It's Time To Buy

CNN | Carol J. Loomis and Doris Burke | Posted 05.25.2011

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According to both this 85-year chart and famed investor Warren Buffett, it just might be. The point of the chart is that there should be a rational re...

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Stocks Slump As Signs Point To Harder Times

washingtonpost.com | Neil Irwin and David Cho | Posted 05.25.2011

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Businesses cut prices at a record rate and builders started fewer new homes last month than anytime on record, according to new government data, as th...

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US Stocks See Biggest Weekly Gain Since 1974

Bloomberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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U.S. stocks rose, capping the biggest weekly gain since 1974, after JPMorgan Chase & Co. took steps to end the housing crisis, bank lending rates decl...

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Stocks Recover From Sharp Losses

AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — It started with another stomach-turning drop at the open, and a loss of more than 300 points by midday. Then stocks changed course, r...

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U.S. Stocks Stage Biggest 2-Day Rally In 5 Years

Bloomberg | Elizabeth Stanton | Posted 05.25.2011

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U.S. stocks staged the biggest two- day rally in five years, led by financial shares, after Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn reinforced expec...

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Black Friday Bargain Hunting On Wall Street Ups Stocks

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stocks rebounded as investors engaged in a bit of Black Friday bargain hunting and looked for signs of how well retailers might fare during the holida...

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