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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Friday, closing out one of their worst months on record, on hopes that a thawing in credit markets will spur growth even as most commodity prices slumped again on growing evidence of a deepening recession ...

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ImmunoGen (IMGN)52-week stock price A lot of investors probably haven't heard of tiny biotech company ImmunoGen ( IMGN ), but the Street and Big Pharma know it well. The five stock analysts who follow ImmunoGen all recommend buying its shares. And ...

Stocks Volatility

Wall street broker works the phones on the trading floor of New York Stock Exchange shortly after the market opened Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008 (AP Photo/David Karp) NEW YORK -- Wall Street took a dose of bad economic news with relative calm Tuesday ...

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Johnson & Johnson ( JNJ ) Stock Quote , Chart , News , Add to Watchlist TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Two HIV drugs approved last year for patients who have developed resistance to older drugs also work well in new patients, and with fewer troubling side ...

The chart below reflects the stock price and the dollar change. NEW YORK Wall Street fell again as investors worry that companies' forecasts for the fourth quarter and beyond signal little easing of the weakness gripping the economy. The Dow ...

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Gold Stocks

NEW YORK -- Wall Street joined stock markets around the world in a huge selloff Friday, sending major market indexes to their lowest levels in more than five years on the belief a punishing economic recession is at hand. A grim outlook from ...

Gold prices briefly plunged to a 21-month low Friday as world stock markets plunged, puzzling some analysts who believe the traditional safe-haven asset should be soaring amid the economic turmoil. Gold clawed back into positive territory later in ...

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Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Enea SA, the first Polish power distributor to sell shares on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, started its 2.87 billion-zloty ($969 million) initial public offering, undeterred by the global plunge in stocks. Enea is selling a 30 ...

Stock Splits

ANSWER: Nothing is easy -- including trying to explain this. Here is the difference between points in a stock price and points in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. A point change in a stock price is $1. The Dow is a price-weighted average of stocks ...

Stocks Volatility

(RTTNews) - Stocks showed a strong upward move over the course of the trading session on Monday, with the major averages all moving firmly into positive territory after seeing some volatility earlier in the session.

WORLD stocks mainly fell today, reversing earlier gains, as Wall Street sentiment was dampened by mixed corporate news and a warning that the world's biggest economy was already facing recession.

Mutual Fund

Many investors have discontinued their mutual fund (MF) systematic investment plans (SIPs). This is not surprising, as net asset values (NAVs) of most MFs have taken a beating in recent times. And there are fears that the market may decline further ...

Jim Cramer Mad Money

Last Friday afternoon, Jim Cramer, CNBC's star stock-picker, took time before taping his hourlong show, "Mad Money," to talk to a visitor in the cable network's headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey After weeks of dreadful performance, it ...

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(RTTNews) - Seeking to diversify its generation portfolio geographically and create the largest power company in the U.S., Exelon Corp. ( EXC | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating ), an electricity generating and distributing company, on Sunday tabled ...

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American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc ( AXL ) Stock Quote , Chart , News , Add to Watchlist There's a reason why I selected notable five-star gainers, as opposed to other big-name winners making noise on Monday, like one-star automakers General ...

Morgan Stanley ( MS ) Stock Quote , Chart , News , Add to Watchlist NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures soared on Monday as a push by governments around the world to pump money into the clogged banking system sparked relief among investors and ...

Stock Portfolio

The Stock Market Game is a curriculum-based teaching tool that allows students to invest a hypothetical $100,000 online stock portfolio to learn about long-term saving and investing. Despite the passage of the Wall Street rescue bill, the bears were ...

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Lyle Andrews has released MetaView , a new Mac OS X application that lets you view stock market data in 3D. It costs US$49.59, and also requires a subscription to a special MetaView data feed, priced at $15 per month. MetaView lets you group stocks ...

Why has the mortgage mess affected all types of credit? Why is the stock market going up and down like a seesaw? What can you do to survive the financial trauma? Gail MarksJarvis of the Chicago Tribune, John Wasik of Bloomberg News and Pamela Yip ...

Mutual Funds

RMK Advantage Income Fund Inc ( RMA ) Stock Quote , Chart , News , Add to Watchlist NEW YORK, Oct. 17, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The law firm of Napoli Bern Ripka LLP announced today that it filed another arbitration claim with FINRA (Financial ...

Stock Market Quotes

TOKYO, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Japan is looking at easing accounting rules as an emergency step to soften the blow from losses on risky credit products, joining other global authorities to contain the fallout from the global market turmoil. Prime Minister ...

A Filipino trader looks at the graph on a computer at the Philippine Stock Exchange in the financial district of Makati, south of Manila, Philippines on Wednesday Oct. 15, 2008. The Philippine Stock Exchange index dropped 35.24 points, or 1.55 ...

Toronto Stock Exchange

TORONTO While the United States reels from the global financial crisis, with credit markets still frozen and stock prices careening from highs to lows, Canada has remained relatively insulated. Canadian banks have not gone shaky like their ...

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BOCA RATON, Fla. , Oct. 10 -- Devcon International Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: DEVC.OB) announced today that it has filed a Form 15 with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") to voluntarily deregister its common stock under the Securities ...

Value Stocks

Investors agonizing over a faltering economy sent the stock market plunging all over again Wednesday after a stream of disheartening data convinced Wall Street that a recession, if not already here, is inevitable. The market's despair propelled the ...

Stock Xchange

We may all live in the South Sound, but we create our own ways of living here. Each one of us fits in to a demographic group, even if its population is small. Where we shop, eat, recreate and get our hair done says a lot about who we are. Today, we ...

THE new force in iron ore has always been one of a kind. After Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest's Fortescue Metals raised eyebrows with an announcement on Tuesday that 10 per cent of its stock was on loan, presumably to short sellers, it is now saying it was ...

Nasdaq Trades

NEW YORK (AP) - Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. said Monday daily trades on its Nordic derivatives exchange increased 28 percent in September. The number of trades per business day on the OMX rose to 234,808 last month from 183,642 a year ago. The value of ...

Wall Street, European markets bouyant Investors responding to government bank rescues Some markets posted double-digit gains WALL Street shares skyrocketed at the market opening today, with the Dow up more than four per cent while some European ...

Stock Certificates

Lukas Schmidt was staring at the alluring photos of white sandy beaches and palm trees on display in the shop window of a Berlin travel agents but sighed and turned away. "I actually wanted to take my girlfriend to Spain in December, but I think we ...

Hedge Fund

BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hedge funds are preparing for a fresh battle with U.S. regulators, who want to make large investors reveal their bearish stock bets on a regular basis. Fund managers have already won some concessions on emergency short ...

Lehman Brothers' administrators are this week expected to put numbers on the value of assets tied up in the bankrupt bank, giving hope of clarity to hedge funds and other creditors whose assets held at Lehman are frozen. Counterparties to Lehman ...

Disney Stock

TOKYO, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Tokyo Disney Resort operator Oriental Land Co Ltd (4661.T: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) said on Tuesday it had scrapped a plan for a new Disney-theme entertainment complex in a major city in Japan, citing the ...

Walt Disney Co ( DIS ) Stock Quote , Chart , News , Add to Watchlist WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday said it is investigating whether five television networks and 19 former military officers violated government ...

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Thanks to the oncoming worldwide recession, gas is now less than $3 a gallon. Unfortunately, the panic in the stock market means you still can't afford to buy any. After the stock market's worst week in history, it's clear that the ups and downs ...

Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks fell the most since the September 2001 terrorist attacks as concern that tightening credit markets will prolong an economic slowdown overshadowed the passage of a $700 billion financial-market rescue package. General ...

Stock Splits

Bank of Granite Corporation (NASDAQ: GRAN) (the "Company") announced that its Board of Directors approved a 5-for-4 stock split that will be effected by issuing one additional share of its common stock for each four shares held by shareholders of ...

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. , Sept. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Direct, Inc. CDS (the "Company"), a U.S. company that owns controlling stakes in a diversified portfolio of Chinese entities and assists Chinese businesses in accessing the U.S. capital ...

Stock Xchange

We may all live in the South Sound, but we create our own ways of living here. Each one of us fits in to a demographic group, even if its population is small. Where we shop, eat, recreate and get our hair done says a lot about who we are. Today, we ...

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DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. , Sept. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Direct, Inc. CDS (the "Company"), a U.S. company that owns controlling stakes in a diversified portfolio of Chinese entities and assists Chinese businesses in accessing the U.S. capital ...

In his post-mortem of a brutal day on Wall Street , Jim Cramer told viewers on his "Mad Money" TV show on Monday that the fall of Lehman Brothers (LEH Quote - Cramer on LEH - Stock Picks), Merrill Lynch (symbol Quote - Cramer on symbol - Stock Picks ...

Stocks And Shares

The move by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission largely affects funds trading in the dual-listed shares of top miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. Market operator ASX said on Tuesday the regulator would allow investors doing arbitrage ...

Jim Cramer Mad Money

You say the name of a stock, and Mad Money's Jim Cramer tells you whether to buy or sell. Lightning Round 02 Oct 2008 You say the name of a stock, and Mad Money's Jim Cramer tells you whether to buy or sell. Cramer's Sell Block 02 Oct ...

On yesterday's episode of Mad Money , Jim Cramer pointed out several of his favorite defensive stocks to his viewers and fans. Cramer began the segment by informing watchers of his CNBC show that the yield on a 10-year treasury is currently 3.87%, or ...

Stock Brokers

When you build a wall, you need to start with the bricks on the bottom. In the same way, when fighting a financial crisis, the government needs to start with the basics: reassuring bank depositors that their money is safe. That's why Congress should ...

Stock Broker

WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Two stock promoters have been charged with market manipulation in a broker bribery scheme involving an undercover FBI agent, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday. The SEC said Bruce Grossman and ...

Security officers stand guard outside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Saturday Sept. 13, 2008 where deliberations resumed as leading Wall Street executives and top U.S. financial officials tried to find a buyer or financing for the nation's No ...

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Copyright 2008 TheStreet.com, Inc.All Rights Reserved TheStreet . com October 2, 2008 Thursday 10:48 AM EST SECTION: NEWS & ANALYSIS; Insurance LENGTH: 718 words HEADLINE: Insurance Company Earnings Plunge 53% BYLINE: Melissa Gannon, Director of ...

Hedge Fund

Making millions or even a few billion by managing a hedge fund has been a running dream on Wall Street in recent years. But suddenly even the masters of this $2 trillion universe are falling on hard times, at least by their own gilded ...

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CIT Group Inc ( CIT ) Stock Quote , Chart , News , Add to Watchlist In the wake of the scandals that ruined investors in Enron and WorldCom and the options backdating fiasco, "corporate governance" became the watch-phrase of the new millennium, and a ...

Global Investor Services, Inc. GISV announced the change of its name from TheRetirementSolution.com, Inc. to Global Investor Services, Inc. In addition, the symbol has been changed to GISV from TRES and the Company s stock will ...

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More power to you! Legislation now headed back to the House has more than just bailout money. In addition to expanded borrowing authority for the FDIC the revised financial market rescue bill gives the Federal Reserve Board authority to pay interest ...

CSX Corp ( CSX ) Stock Quote , Chart , News , Add to Watchlist Based on the aggregated intelligence of 115,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, railroad operator Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) has ...

Stock Market Quotes

* Market awaits U.S. Senate vote on bailout package (Updates with Brent settlement price) NEW YORK, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Wednesday as U.S. government data showed supplies rising and global markets awaited a U.S. Senate vote on the ...