Stock Exchange

Ominous Rumblings on Stock Exchanges

Ted Kaufman | Posted 04.16.2012

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Ted Kaufman

We must insist on more transparency and a return to markets that are fair to all investors. The tremors keep happening. We can't afford to wait until after the next catastrophic eruption.

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NYSE Website Outages Prompt Suspicions Of A Cyber Attack

AP | Posted 12.11.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO -- The New York Stock Exchange's website was apparently hobbled twice Monday, possibly the result of computer attacks as part of the ant...

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Wall Street Protest, Circa 1967

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.03.2011

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Chris Weigant

Abbie Hoffman's merry band of pranksters took a tour of the NYSE on August 24, 1967. The tour ended at a gallery overlooking the trading floor. Hoffman and his friends rushed to the railing, and began throwing money onto the heads of the traders below.

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Occupy Wall Street: Handmade Signage And Street Theatre

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 11.24.2011

Read More: Photography, Signs, Millenials, Police, Federal Hall, Brooklyn Street Art, Free Speech, BrooklynStreetArt.Com, Social Safety Net, Stock Exchange, Occupy Wall Street, Corporatism, Students, New York City, Jaime Rojo, Demonstraters, Mortgages, Social Media, Unemployment, Steven P. Harrington, Hashtags, George Washington, Wall Street, Political Speech, Nyse, Slidepollajax, Banks, Electronic Media, Street Theater, Public Display, Economic Insecurity, Arts News
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

"New York is the concentrate of art and commerce and sport and religion and entertainment and finance, bringing to a single compact arena the gladiato...

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Wall Street Rebounds Just In Time For Debt Deal

Reuters | Ashley Lau | Posted 09.18.2011

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street rebounded on Tuesday, bolstered by strong corporate results and renewed hope for an agreement in Washington that ...

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Nasdaq Makes Huge Rival Bid To Buy NYSE

Posted 06.01.2011

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Nasdaq OMX and IntercontinentalExchange unveiled a rival bid to buy NYSE Euronext for about $11.3 billion in cash and stock, a 19 percent premium ...

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Wall Street to Protestors: Get a Job! (PHOTOS: Bankers React to Thursday's March)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Yesterday Wall Street, for perhaps the first time, answered directly to the people, as more than ten thousand union members and community members took the streets in the heart of New York's Financial District.

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Iraq Stock Exchange: High-risk investments

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Craig and Marc Kielburger

Trading floors are known for being volatile. Those who think they're tough should try navigating the Iraq Stock Exchange. On Jan. 12, the Tuesday tra...

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The Battle in the Citadel of Capitalism

Garrett Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Garrett Johnson

In 1947, union leaders decided to take the fight to Wall Street, and shut down trade at the source: The New York Stock Exchange.

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Court Review of SOX Gives Hope for New U.S. Jobs

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gary Shapiro

Only American companies have to follow this expensive and intrusive law imposing huge costs on publicly traded companies. Thankfully, relief may be in sight.

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Dow Rises On The Backs Of Tech, Financial Stocks

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Investors acted Wednesday as if they had overdone it a day earlier. Wall Street snapped back from a steep sell-off with a rebound in...

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Fall of the Wall: Can The Financial Sector Be Controlled?

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Danny Schechter

Where's the outcry when you learn that more money has been spent to contain this crisis than was used in all of World War 11?

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What Is A Bear Market?

The New York Times | Catherine Rampell | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Leonhardt wrote Thursday that we've entered "the third great bear market of the last century." Others have used the same ursine terminology. Wh...

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Fannie Mae Bailout Pushes Stocks Up At Open

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Wall Street extended its slump into yet another week Monday as investors worried that even a safety net set up for mortgage financier...

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Wall St. Starting To See Signs Of A Turnaround

New York Times | VIKAS BAJAJ | Posted 05.25.2011

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Main Street may be struggling, but Wall Street is on a bit of a roll. Despite a drumbeat of bad economic news, the stock market is up -- almost 11 pe...

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Wall Street's Next Big Bailout?

Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, Investors, Bear Market, Stock Exchange, U.S. Dollar, Stock Market Rebound, Business News
Eben Esterhuizen

Perhaps Wall Street's ultimate bailout will come when central banks coordinate efforts to save the U.S. dollar.

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