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Harry Potter's Five Steps to Courage
Tom Morris | Posted 05.21.2009 | Living
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Who would have guessed that the world's most popular fictional wizard could teach us all a thing or two, or five, about courage, change, and dealing with daunting challenge?
Wall Street tumbles as investors dump financials
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Investors are back to worrying about banks. Long-present unease about soured loans bubbled over on Monday after Bank of America Corp...
Hints of stabilizing economy spark late rally
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 05.16.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street is seeing an economic glass that's half-full _ again. Investors poured money into consumer product and financial compani...
Fear Recedes
James Berman | Posted 05.14.2009 | Business
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Common knowledge doesn't influence markets, only true surprises do.
Digging Out
Alan Schram | Posted 05.14.2009 | Business
For the market to go up from here, the news doesn't have to be good. It just has to be not quite as bad as what has already been discounted.
Housing deal, hope for insurers lift stocks
AP | SARA LEPRO and TIM PARADIS | Posted 05.09.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Insurance and technology shares led the market higher in a volatile day Wednesday, breaking a two-day slide. But a dim view of the ec...
Big Market Rally: Time to Get in?
Dan Solin | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business
March was one of the best months ever for stocks. Is it time for you to get in? Fortunately, there are many "financial experts" eager to give you advice.
Are the Bulls Full of Bull?
Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business
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The question, he asks, "is whether the bulls are full of bull?" Ortz argues that the plight of the banks -- a bell-weather market sector -- is still an unresolved issue.
How Bear Markets End: Blodget
businessinsider.com | Henry Blodget | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business
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Doug Short has taken a detailed look at the 10 bear markets and bear-market-recoveries since 1950. You can click through a slideshow showing each of ...
Stocks fall after 4-week rally; Dow below 8,000
AP | SARA LEPRO | Posted 05.07.2009 | Home
NEW YORK — Wall Street pulled back for the first time in five days Monday as investors worried about balance sheets at banks and the quarterly r...
Jim Cramer Declares Depression Over; Millions Panic
Andy Borowitz | Posted 04.06.2009 | Comedy
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Just moments after Mr. Cramer delivered his upbeat prediction, stock prices went into an epic free-fall unprecedented in the annals of modern trading as millions of investors rushed for the exits.
Wall Street Rally Will Depend On These Five Companies: Wal-Mart, Target, Microsoft, Google, Dow Chemical And Citigroup
24/7 Wall Street | Posted 05.07.2009 | Business
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The assumption is that the earnings for the first quarter from most companies in the S&P 500 will be atrocious. That can be set side-by-side with the ...
Jim Cramer Declares The Depression "Over" (VIDEO)
Huffington Post | Nick Sabloff | Posted 05.05.2009 | Business
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On Thursday's episode of "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer declared that the depression is, well, over. No stranger to making bold statements about the stoc...
Keep the Baby -- Throw Out the Bathwater
Larry Gellman | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business
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Those of you who are waiting for the economy to get "back" to normal will probably be waiting for the rest of your lives.
Street looks past job data, logs 4th week of gains
AP | TIM PARADIS and MADLEN READ | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Not even grisly job losses could get in the stock market's way Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average clawed higher to end above 8...
Stocks extend 4-week rally; Dow breaches 8,000
AP | SARA LEPRO | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Investors dove into stocks Thursday, extending a rally that gave the Dow Jones industrial average its best four weeks since 1933. St...
Wall Street opens 2nd quarter with a gain
AP | SARA LEPRO | Posted 05.02.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street opened the second quarter with solid gains, extending a four-week rally that brought the market off its lowest levels in ...
Ballooning Debt Threatens Economic Rebound
Dan Dorfman | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business
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If that's true, the end result of the debt debacle appears inevitable: job firings, consumer spending and home foreclosures will continue to mount, while stocks should once again head lower.
Best Month In the Market in 7 Years? Who Cares?
Ian Welsh | Posted 04.27.2009 | Business
Repeat after me: The market is not the economy. Of course the market is doing well. The administration promised to put around 2 trillion more dollars into it in various forms.
Investors cash in some gains from big rally
AP | TIM PARADIS and SARA LEPRO | Posted 04.27.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Caution reasserted itself on Wall Street, sending stocks down sharply but not enough to stop the market from notching its third strai...
Back to the Future
Larry Gellman | Posted 04.27.2009 | Living
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Although it may not be as much fun as the more recent version, the new normal will probably look more like the normal of my youth than the unsustainable glory days of the last 20 years.
Stocks Rise On Relief Over Earnings, Debt Auction
AP | TIM PARADIS and MADLEN READ | Posted 04.26.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — This time, it was the consumer who had Wall Street rallying. Better-than-expected earnings from big consumer brands Best Buy, ConAgr...
Mortgage-Backed, My Assets!
Patrick O'Sullivan | Posted 04.26.2009 | Comedy
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Baby Back Securities: Melt in your mouth, not on your balance sheet. These choice, succulent, tainted assets are smothered in Tim Geithner's own secret recipe sauce (just watch it trickle down!) then slow-grilled to perfection.
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