Gold Stocks

TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index jumped more than 2 percent on Wednesday, spurred by resource issues, especially the energy sector, which rallied along with oil prices. Mining shares rode higher on enthusiasm over Teck ...

Best Stocks

Piggybacking on the picks of great investors and money managers can often lead to big rewards -- especially when the stocks in question have been pummelled. If Buffett's finding opportunity in bonds, perhaps you should look there, too. Does Bill ...

Stock Picks

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CLX Medical, Inc. (OTCBB: CLXN), which is focused on the launch and distribution of unique medical diagnostic testing products, today filed a Schedule 14C Information Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission reporting majority ...

Neil Young says the tech industry doesn't care as much about music quality as it should. Perhaps that's because the average iPod-toting iTunes customer doesn't give a second thought to whether the digital file of the latest single they just bought is ...

Stock Market Quotes

LONDON, July 28 (Reuters) - Britain's financial watchdog fined UK motor insurer Hastings, a unit of Insurance Australia Group (IAG.AX: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ), 735,000 pounds ($1.5 million) over failings linked to hundreds of ...

(RTTNews) - The Japanese market closed slight higher on Monday after giving away early gains. The market started off firm, tracking Wall Street's moderate gains Friday and weaker yen, but pared most of the day's gains in the afternoon session ahead ...

New York Stock Exchange

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Stocks are moderately lower in early trading as investors are looking at a mix of earnings reports and watching the price of oil tick higher. Among the latest companies to report, Verizon Communications Inc. says its ...

NEW YORK, July 28 (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Monday on strong wireless sales and improved margins, offsetting a fall in landline users ...

Stock Xchange

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt., March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson & Perkinson hereby announces that it is investigating whether current holders of Bear Stearns Companies Inc. common stock ("Bear Stearns" or the "Company") [NYSE: BSC]; purchasers of Bear ...

Stock Symbol

(Stock Symbol "CLT" - TSX) CALGARY, July 25 /CNW/ - Celtic Exploration Ltd. ("Celtic" or the "Company") has potential financial exposure to SemCAMS ULC ("SemCAMS"), a Canadian subsidiary of U.S. based SemGroup LP ("SemGroup"), relating to the ...

Shares of GT Solar stock fell by 15 percent on the second day of trading. The Merrimack, N.H., company calls itself one of the largest suppliers of silicon photovoltaic solar equipment. Its stock, under the ticker symbol SOLR on the NASDAQ market ...

Mutual Fund

Dont look now, but your favorite 401(k) mutual fund may be going the way of the VHS tape. In a drive to cut costs, 401(k) plans are replacing familiar mutual-fund investment options with more-obscure vehicles known as "collective investment funds ...

Jim Cramer Mad Money

Sorry for only having one post today - we've had some breaking news this afternoon, and I know I've got more stuff coming down the pipeline so I'll go ahead and throw out the wild card for today. The big guy will be back next week, and the weekend ...

Money Market Account

July 25 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks fell for the third day this week on concern losses in financial services may worsen and slowing economies will stifle profit growth. Munich Re slumped the most in five years after the world's second-biggest ...

BALTIMORE (AP) - Retail brokerage T. Rowe Price Group Inc. on Friday reported flat second-quarter earnings as expense growth offset gains from fees and other revenue, but per-share earnings rose as the company reduced its number of outstanding shares ...

Stock Charts

One of the first rules to investing is rooted in the practice of due diligence. By taking the time to gather all necessary information about a company or industry investors can minimize their risk and potentially find a stock prior to a big move. Of ...

FRANKFURT, July 23 (Reuters) - Volkswagen's (VOWG.DE: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) strong first-half results showed no sign of added burdens from depreciation creep or rising fixed costs, according to charts put on the company's Web site ...

Mutual Funds

New proposed rules targeting payday lenders that are designed to reduce risks for families who take out so-called title loans on their vehicles are set to be filed by the Illinois Financial and Professional Regulation Department today. Title loans ...

Nasdaq Tennis

PHILADELPHIA, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast Corporation NASDAQ: CMCSA NASDAQ: CMCSK, the country's leading entertainment, information, and communications company, today announced that Joseph W. Waz, Jr. has been promoted to Senior Vice President ...

Stock Market Quotes

NEW YORK, July 22 (Reuters) - Oil prices fell to a six-week low on Tuesday amid concerns over sliding U.S. energy demand and expectations that a hurricane pushing through the Gulf of Mexico would spare most offshore oil production. The losses extend ...

Tsx Stocks

TORONTO -- The Toronto stock market ran ahead more 200 points late Monday morning with bank stocks racking up solid gains in the wake of a well-received earnings report from Bank of America. But the utilities sector also lent strong support on major ...

Stocks Volatility

LONDON HBOS PLC said Monday that only about 8 percent of its shareholders opted to buy into its 4 billion-pound (US$8 billion) rights issue. The British bank said its underwriters -- Morgan Stanley and Dresdner -- would now have to find ...

LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) - British bank HBOS Plc (HBOS.L: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) said shareholders subscribed for just 8.3 percent of shares in its 4 billion pound ($8 billion) rights issue, leaving its underwriters to try to sell ...

Jim Cramer Mad Money

Sens. Obama , Hagel and Reed had breakfast this morning with the troops at Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan, where Obama talked to a military reporter about being with the troops. "The food is excellent, but the company is even better," Obama said ...

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Stock Chart

Gannett Co Inc ( GCI ) Stock Quote , Chart , News , Add to Watchlist There's a simple reason why I selected the largest five-star gainers, as opposed to other big-name winners making noise on Wednesday, like low-rated financials Washington Mutual and ...

The App Store now lists 15 different applications in the News category, giving users a wide choice of products for their news updates. Those in the financial industryor just those who follow itwill be pleased to see that Bloomberg is one of ...

Nasdaq Trades

BOSTON International Business Machines Corp. reported a higher quarterly profit Thursday, beating expectations and buoyed by higher sales in the economically troubled United States and abroad due to growth in services, hardware and software ...

Stock Certificates

(CBS) With dramatic losses in the stock market and with banks in trouble, it's no surprise investors are worried about their savings. But Early Show money maven Ray Martin suggested strategies Thursday to help you navigate the waters during bear ...

Forex Trading

2008-07-18 16:45:44 - FXstreet.com, the leading independent portal dedicated to the Foreign Exchange (Forex) market, has taken a further step in the Forex Education field. The website has planned a DVD Series with key figures of the Forex Industry ...

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Stocks Bonds

July 16 (Bloomberg) -- European government bonds advanced for a third day as declines in stocks spurred investor demand for the safest assets. The gains sent German two-year yields to near the lowest level in more than a month after equity markets in ...

Graph Stocks

We've seen a wave of news stories that Wall Street is scared of Obama, or the Obama will lead to a market crash or that Obama will kill the economy. First -- it's not like the Republicans have a lot to crow about here. We're currently dealing with ...

Gold Stocks

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Investors get another reading on inflation today, this time for consumers, and the Federal Reserve reports on industrial production. Meanwhile, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies for a second day before Congress amid a ...

Mutual Funds

Investment management firm Federated Investors Inc. said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire two funds from David W. Tice & Associates for up to $142.5 million. Federated will acquire the $1.2 billion Prudent Bear Fund and the $507 million Prudent ...

A leader in socially responsible investing, the MMA Praxis Mutual Funds screen investments based on a wide range of faith values, social concerns, and traditional financial considerations a process referred to as stewardship investing. Mennonite ...

Stock Splits

ZURICH, July 16 (Reuters) - Swiss Re (RUKN.VX: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) said on Wednesday it had total exposure of $9.6 billion to U.S. mortgage lenders Freddie Mac (FRE.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) and Fannie Mae ...

ZURICH, July 16 (Reuters) - Swiss Re said on Wednesday it had total exposure of $9.6 billion to U.S. mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae as of the start of July. The reinsurer's shares fell about 8 percent, briefly hitting their lowest level ...

Stock Xchange

July 15 (Reuters) - Wachovia Capital Markets downgraded consumer products maker Kimberly-Clark Corp (KMB.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) to "market perform" from "outperform," saying the company's lowered 2008 outlook on massive cost ...

IVAX Diagnostics (IVD), a small Miami healthcare company, was showing a daily stock increase of 6,900 percent at midday Monday, but an official said the change was because of a recording error. Officially, the stock was trading on the American Stock ...

Stocks And Shares

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Stocks are up sharply in early trading as investors show their relief about the government's plans to shore up confidence in mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Shares of the government-chartered companies ...

Jim Cramer Mad Money

Editor's note: Jim Cramer will appear on an NBC special at 7 p.m. EDT Sunday entitled "The American Dream with Jim Cramer," where he will talk about NASCAR, the economy and investing. In the following column, Cramer discusses the program's mission ...

With gas prices reaching record highs, home values plummeting and nest eggs shrinking, too many of us feel like the American Dream is slipping from our hands. CNBC's Jim Cramer of "Mad Money with Jim Cramer" fame hopes to change our perception and ...

Money Market Account

FORT DRUM If the war were to end tomorrow, there would not be enough housing in the north country for the 17,500 soldiers stationed at Fort Drum. But within in the next five years, if projected construction goes as planned, there might be 500 ...

Uranium Stocks

NEW YORK -- Oil prices spiked to a new record above $147 a barrel Friday, as rising hostilities between the West and Iran and the potential for attacks on Nigerian oil facilities gave investors reason to rush back into the energy markets. The ...

Even though the Indo-US civil nuclear agreement is being opposed at home by the Left and some other parties, the international community on the whole has welcomed it. For a fast developing India one of the biggest challenges is to fulfill its energy ...

Stock Certificates

The stock market swoon over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac this week has left many consumers scratching their heads, wondering if buying a home is a worse idea than it was seven days ago or whether to take down the ''for sale'' sign in the yard. So now ...

Stock Xchange

NEW YORK, July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Finlay Enterprises, Inc. FNLY (the "Company") today announced that it is in the process of transferring the quotation of its common stock to the OTC Bulletin Board ("OTCBB"). The OTCBB is a regulated ...

NEW YORK, July 9 (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil futures ended little changed on Wednesday as government data showed that a large drawdown in crude supplies last week was concentrated on the West Coast, which has little impact on futures prices. In the ...

Mutual Fund

John Templeton, the global investor and philanthropist, died Tuesday from pneumonia at a hospital in the Bahamas. NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) John Templeton, an investor and mutual fund pioneer who dedicated much of his fortune to promoting religion and ...

NASSAU, Bahamas John Templeton, an investor and mutual fund pioneer who dedicated much of his fortune to promoting religion and reconciling it with science, has died at age 95. Templeton died Tuesday from pneumonia at Doctors Hospital in Nassau ...

Stock Screener

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Forex Trading

The Indian rupee appreciated by seven paise to 43.22 against the greenback in morning trade today, amid soaring crude oil prices and better trend in equity markets. At the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market, the domestic currency resumed ...

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - The euro steadied after sharp losses against the dollar on Thursday, as the July 4 holiday in the U.S. and a lack of economic data are expected to keep trading volumes to a minimum. The euro stabilised overnight against ...

Stock Charts

Market positivity was scarce this week as a number of household names had to stomach worrying news on funding and sales. The FTSE 100 closed yesterday at 5,412.90, down 63.77 points, a 7% decline from a week ago ( full FTSE 100 charts and stats ...

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Mutual Funds

M utual fund companies come up with "new ideas" all the time, but most don't gain any traction. So when Fidelity Investments joined the latest trend this month and opened a "130/30 fund," it signaled that the newest fad in funds had gone big-time ...

Stock Splits

del.icio.us (07-02) 15:20 PDT New York (AP) -- Shares of General Motors Corp. plunged Wednesday to close below $10 for the first time in more than half a century, on worries about the company's cash needs and speculation about a possible bankruptcy ...

Shares of Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. began trading on the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday following the company's separation from E.W. Scripps Co. Shares, trading under the symbol "SNI," added $1.87, or nearly 5 percent, to $40.22 in afternoon ...

Stock Market Quotes

U.S. stock futures point to weak start for third quarter Was Friday the bottom? U.S. stocks under pressure on oil, financial woes Writing off the biggest Wall Street stories so far this year Mining, fertilizers and energy to benefit from rising ...

Value Stocks

Each business day, TheStreet.com Ratings compiles a list of the top five stocks in five categories -- fast-growth, all-around value, large-cap, mid-cap and small-cap -- and publishes these lists in the Ratings section of our Web site. This list is ...

July 2 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks rose after UBS AG and Deutsche Bank AG quelled concerns they may need more capital to cover credit losses and Astrazeneca Plc's patent-case victory sparked a rally in drugmakers. U.S. index futures gained, while ...

Stock Xchange

NEW YORK The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday it has charged cable-chip company Microtune Inc. and two former executives with perpetrating a "fraudulent and deceptive stock option backdating scheme." Microtune already said Monday it ...

Japan shares fell sharply Wednesday, with the benchmark stock index now on its longest losing streak since 1965. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average slid 176.83 points, or 1.31 percent, to 13,286.37 _ its lowest level since April 16 and the 10th straight ...

Commodity Trading

Traders work the crude oil options pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange, Friday, June 27, 2008 in New York. Some experts warn that banking on ever-rising commodity prices is not a viable long-term strategy, and that if the run-up reverses course ...