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BusinessWeek
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Certain shares may appear enticing now but they could poison your portfolio later. On the list: Valero, Williams-Sonoma, and Winnebago
Bullish noises for the market abound. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke makes it clear that he's prepared to pull out all the..
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MSNBC
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Persistent fears about the world economy battered global stocks again Monday and drove investors toward safer assets despite expectations of more interest cuts from the Federal Reserve to bolster growth.
Investors around the world have been jittery for..
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SF Gate
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Investors lopped $15 billion off Apple Inc.'s market value Wednesday, punishing the company for a disappointing earnings outlook even as many technology stocks staged a comeback.
Fears about weakening consumer spending in the U.S. and a slowdown in iPo..
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SF Gate
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U.S. stocks headed for another lower open Wednesday amid continuing investor uneasiness, but futures prices pointed to less intense pressure than on Tuesday, when stocks plunged after the opening bell.
The Federal Reserve's emergency cut of its federal..
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BusinessWeek
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Jittery investors dumped shares Tuesday, driving the S&P 500 down over 5% in the first five days of the trading year
The wintry gloom that has enshrouded Wall Street thickened on Tuesday as major indexes slumped once again. Repeated attempts by equitie..
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CNN
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World stocks took another dive on Friday despite early attempts at a rebound in Europe while currency dealers drove the Japanese yen to a 14-month high against the dollar, throwing out risky leverage. Wall Street looked set for a weak opening. "Everyone's..
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Al Jazeera
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The injections enable commercial banks to borrow from the central bank amid fears of a credit freeze linked to the US subprime market.
European slide
The ECB credits, which are in the form of loans, have come to more than the amount injected short..
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CNN
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European stocks plummeted on Friday, surrendering what was left of their 2007 gains as a spreading malaise in the U.S. subprime mortgage market continued to hit stocks worldwide. Banking shares took a beating, with Royal Bank of Scotland down 4.5 percent,..
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FOX News
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Chinese stocks plunged Monday following government efforts to cool a market boom, recording their biggest one-day drop since a late February drop that triggered a global market sell-off.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index tumbled 8.3 percent to 3,6..
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Washington Post
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The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index hit a record high Wednesday, marking a four-year recovery of U.S. stocks battered by the burst of the tech bubble, the collapse of Enron and WorldCom, the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq...
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CNN
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Asian stock markets rebounded on Monday, with South Korea reaching a new peak as gains on Wall Street helped soothe worries about overheating in China's red-hot share markets.
Takeover news, such as Nasdaq's plan to buy Nordic exchange company OMX, had..
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Washington Post
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Internet pranksters pulled a fast one on Apple shareholders this week, proving that even the slightest hint of negative news about the highly anticipated iPhone can create a frenzy on Wall Street.
Just before 10 a.m. Wednesday, a spoof e-mail posing as..
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Denver Post
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New York - U.S. stocks rallied to extend the best April advance in four years, lifted by earnings that topped estimates from some of the biggest industrial and technology companies.
Caterpillar Inc., Honeywell International Inc. and American Express Co..
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CNN
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European stocks hit their highest levels in more than six years on Monday with ABN AMRO, which has been in merger talks with Barclays, rallying 6 percent after it got an approach from a consortium of banks.
Philips also supported with a 4 percent rise..
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ABC News
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Mar 2, 2007 (AP)— Stocks stumbled in the final session of a tumultuous week Friday as the yen rallied against the dollar and concerns about the U.S. economy still dogged investors after Tuesday's huge drop. The Dow Jones industrials logged their worst..
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Associated Content
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On Tuesday, U.S. Stocks plummeted more than 500 points in a single day. According to market experts, the drop may be a sign of concerns about the slowing rate of business growth, worries that the price of equities has become too inflated, or fears of a po..
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BBC News
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Venezuela's government has bought 28.5% of the country's top telecoms company CANTV, which President Hugo Chavez has accused of spying on him. The stake was bought from US-based Verizon Communications for $572m (£295m), more than $100m less than was o..
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Yahoo News
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The Thai government said it would lift controls on foreign investment in stocks after the market plunged nearly 15 percent on Tuesday, rattling regional bourses amid worries about a repeat of the 1997 Asian financial crisis...
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BBC News
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Thai stocks fell to their lowest in two years as foreign investors led selling in response to Bank of Thailand moves designed to halt currency speculation...
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BusinessWeek
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Shares of smaller companies are sometimes volatile and risky, but they can provide great opportunities. Here's how to find them
Small-cap stocks can swing wildly from one day to the next. A small company's growth plan can be derailed by a bad CEO, a re..
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