Stocks Make Moderate Gains At Shortened Session
NEW YORK — Wall Street climbed again Friday, wrapping up its biggest five-day rally in more than 75 years, even as investors digested signs of a...
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Dow up 494 as Obama prepares to name treasury boss
AP | TIM PARADIS and SARA LEPRO | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street put a stop to a terrifying decline and stormed higher Friday as President-elect Barack Obama appeared ready to tap the ch...
Bush Signs Extension For Jobless Benefits
AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — Federal regulators will guarantee as much as $1.4 trillion in U.S. banks' debt in a bid to get the distressed financial system pump...
Stocks stage huge rebound; Dow jumps 553 points
AP | MADLEN READ and JOE BEL BRUNO | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Investors did an abrupt turnaround on Wall Street Thursday, muscling the Dow Jones industrial average up more than 550 points after d...
Dow Plunges 400 Points
AP | SARA LEPRO | Posted 11.12.2008 | Business
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NEW YORK — An increasingly despondent Wall Street fell for the third straight session Wednesday as investors absorbed another series of dismal c...
'Chicago Tribune' Likely to Print 'Wall Street Journal'
Editor & Publisher | Jim Rosenberg | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media
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NEW YORK With printing and severance negotiations under way, when Dow Jones & Co. closes its Naperville, Ill., plant, the Chicago Tribune's Freedom Ce...
Stocks advance to add to week's large gains
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 10.31.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — The stock market closed out a horrendous October, its worst month in 21 years, with a big advance Friday as more investors took chanc...
The Next Great Depression Is Here... If We're Lucky
Keith Blanchard | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business
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Don't let anyone tell you to relax... that's how they walked us off the cliff in 1929. Embrace your fear. Fear makes you smart; fear makes you strong. It's the only proper mindset to face the coming storm.
Out of Line: DOWn Again
Mort Gerberg | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics
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Dow Nears 5 Year Low: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer October 23, 2008
Shelly Palmer | Posted 10.23.2008 | Media
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Yesterday the Dow Jones closed at 8519, near its five year low. The story did not make the front page of the New York Times nor the evening news. Fo...
Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Erica Jong | Posted 10.10.2008 | Business
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Every time Bush and Bernanke speak the market tanks. Where is the ghost of FDR? Laughing. "I was called a traitor to my class" he says, giggling.
It's Time for Paulson to Cut the Crap and Do His Job
Dean Baker | Posted 10.09.2008 | Business
Paulson's statements that the economy would collapse if Congress didn't act were not true, and obviously he didn't believe them, since it has now been a week and we still don't have even the outlines of his plans.
We're Investment Bankers And We're Here To Help
Gregory Bedrosian | Posted 10.07.2008 | Business
Some advice for our fellow taxpayers in the great financial bail-out.
The Bailout Bill Passes Congress, President Signs the Legislation, and the World Is Saved. Not.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 10.07.2008 | Green
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We saw it when Reagan became president in the early '80s and a decade ago when the price of oil (in real dollars) hit an all-time low. Here we go, back to the past again. That's why it's ominous.
Rearranging The Deckchairs
Tom Gregory | Posted 10.06.2008 | Business
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It is ironic that real estate, the cause of the economic collapse, may eventually be the unintended beneficiary of our steep downturn.
The Ups and Downs of the Stock Market: a Personal Perspective
Doug Bremner | Posted 09.30.2008 | Living
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Why not interpret the stock market from the point of view of my personal life? Yes, me. Doug Bremner. I mean why not? Maybe the events of my life have an influence on the stock market.
Dow plummets record 777 as financial rescue fails
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 09.29.2008 | Business
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NEW YORK — The failure of the bailout package in Congress literally dropped jaws on Wall Street and triggered a historic selloff _ including a t...
Truth and Consequences
Murray Fromson | Posted 09.23.2008 | Media
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At a time when the U.S. economy seemed to be going into the tank, the question no one seemed to be asking the past two weeks was what about the press....
Wall Street Hands Massive Gift to Obama. The Question is, What Will He Do With It?
Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics
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There's been a bloodbath on Wall Street this week, with the Dow Jones dropping 7% to a new three-year low, erasing over $1-trillion in U.S. stock val...
Dow Plunges 240 Points
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 08.25.2008 | Business
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NEW YORK — Stocks sank in light trading Monday as worries about American International Group Inc. touched off broader concerns that the deterior...
Wall Street Tanks On Weak GDP, Jobless Data
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business
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NEW YORK — Wall Street sank Thursday, after weak readings on economic growth and the job market touched off renewed concerns about the financial...
Dow Falls Almost 240 Points
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 07.28.2008 | Business
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NEW YORK — Wall Street again surrendered to investors' anxiety about the financial sector Monday, sending the Dow Jones industrials down 240 poi...
Dow Enters Bear Market, Oil Hits New Record
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 07.02.2008 | Business
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NEW YORK — Wall Street resumed its sell-off Wednesday after oil hit a new record and a bearish analyst report renewed concerns that General Moto...
First Half Of 2008 Worst Start For Dow In Nearly Four Decades
Reuters | Jennifer Ablan | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business
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The worldwide credit crisis that burst onto investors' radar screens nearly a year ago wiped out some $3.3 trillion in wealth from global stock market...
Is A Bear Market Forming?
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business
I don't look at the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It's 30 stocks whereas the S&P 500 is 500 and represents a far larger swath of the market.
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