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As year-end portfolio statements begin to arrive, those of us facing milestones such as the kids' college or our own retirement have especially tough questions about our next investment move. For instance: How much more can we risk losing? It's no ...

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Oil and gold prices eased on Tuesday after recent price spikes related to violence in the Middle East, while the dollar fell against major currencies and stocks were generally higher. It was the last trading day of the year for some financial markets ...

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NEW YORK, Dec 23 (Reuters) - U.S stocks were poised to open little changed on Tuesday as investors digested the final figures for the third-quarter gross domestic product and await data on the health of the housing industry. Surprises in the figures ...

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MUMBAI: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) will consider revamping key clauses in the client-broker agreement to prevent stock brokers from misusing client funds. The dramatic crash in the stock market at the beginning of this year and ...

In this season of spiritual introspection, there are true believers suffering a real crisis of faith. They have been worshipping at the Church of the Free Market, and their doubts run deeper than stock brokers not answering prayers, or returning ...

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For cable news viewers who are suffering from information saturation, last week offered relief. The crawl, as it is called, the unending stream of news capsules that have inched relentlessly across the bottom of cable news programs for seven years ...

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's main stock indexes lost more than two percent of their value on Sunday, as regional sentiment and profit taking depressed prices in very low volume trade, dealers said. "It is end of year trading and sentiment in the Gulf ...

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Precious metals gold and silver bullion move to multi month highs, as dollar slips to multi month lows. [ Johannesburg, 18 December 2008 ] - Listed gold stocks reaffirmed their status as the leading equities recovery sector in global stock markets ...

In this short update we focus on the long term technical picture for gold and precious metals stocks since the fundamentals have not changed and remain bullish. The technical picture, however, is getting very interesting. Gold price action in the ...

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Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. has completed its $7.5 million equity investment in Agora-X LLC , giving Nasdaq a 20 percent state in Agora-X. Kansas City-based Agora-X is a subsidiary of Kansas City-based FCStone Group Inc. (Nasdaq: FCSX). Agora-X launched an ...

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Sadly, there's no such thing as an ultimate buy signal when it comes to investing in stocks. Identifying companies with the wind at their back takes time, patience, and a good dose of due diligence. There is, however, an easy way to increase your ...

Hedge Fund

A French executive whose hedge fund lost a ton of money in Bernard Madoff 's self-admitted $50 billion Ponzi scheme was found dead at his New York office today in an apparent suicide. Bloomberg reports that Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet , who was ...

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percent to end at 1,128.51 points, off a session low of 1,113.17. (Reporting by Kim Yeon-hee; Editing by Jonathan Hopfner) Keywords: MARKETS KOREA STOCKS/CLOSE ASIA-PACIFIC STOCK MARKETS: Pan-Asia..... Japan..... S.Korea... S.E. Asia..... Hong ...

U.S. and European stock markets slipped on Tuesday after more dismal economic reports from the U.K. and U.S. in particular, and bond yields edged lower. U.S. existing home sales and prices both fell at a record pace in November, while other data ...

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Alcoa to Receive Orklas 50% Stake in Elkem Aluminum; Orkla to Receive Alcoas 45% Stake in SAPA Extrusions Business. PITTSBURGH--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Alcoa (NYSE:AA) today announced it has agreed with ORKLA ASA (Orkla) to exchange their stakes in ...

U.S. stocks retreated on Monday, with the consumer-discretionary and energy sectors hit hardest after Walgreen Co. , the nation's largest drugstore chain, reported disappointing results and Toyota Motor Corp. forecast a loss for the year. "If Toyota ...

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Mutual Funds

BOSTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers are angry and individual investors are livid. But if mutual funds are mad, they sure aren't showing it. The $9.6 trillion U.S. funds industry is keeping almost stoically silent through the worst financial crisis in 80 ...

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There's little doubt that 2008 is one year that market watchers and investors the world over would rather forget. If you're soon to retire, we could certainly forget those negative super returns and for those living in the US, it's been a year of ...

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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is moving its US stock exchange listing to Nasdaq Stock Market on December 29 after more than 22 years on the New York Stock Exchange. A person familiar with the talks said Nasdaq had approached News Corp with a "compelling ...

Eleven years after its triumphant return to Wall Street, Spectrum Brands shares will stop trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday. The NYSE notified the company on Monday that its common stock, sold under the symbol SPC, will be suspended ...

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Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Wednesday, returned a total of N430 million to two stock market investors, Sunday Dankaro and Bala Koki, who fell victim to share scam in 2002. Koki, who lost over N32 million in the deal got a ...

Mutual Funds

The mutual fund data for the month ending November 30, released by the Association of Mutual Funds of India, is another indicator of the improved liquidity situation in the country as the liquid funds witnessed a rise in the assets under management ...

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LONDON -- Credit card companies have agreed to stop the practice of abruptly raising the rates paid by their most vulnerable customers, the British government said Friday. The credit card industry had been under pressure from Britain's center-left ...

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Deutsche Brse, the German exchange group, said on Sunday talks with NYSE Euronext about a possible combination of the two groups had ended. The development appears to have ended a short-lived flirtation with the idea of a merger but has highlighted ...

NEW DELHI, India Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Sunday with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown , visiting India to discuss fighting terrorism and calming tensions with neighboring Pakistan . The two leaders had breakfast at Singh's ...

Commodity Trading

WHITEHORSE, YT , Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - European Goldfields Limited (AIM: EGU / TSX: EGU) (the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Martyn Konig as a non-executive director of the Company. Mr. Konig, aged 51, has 27 years ...

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Dec 04, 2008 (LBO) - Sri Lankan shares sagged further Thursday as trading volumes slumped to a six-year low of 13 million rupees with high interest rates and uncertainty over future company earnings keeping investors away, brokers said. To receive ...

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The stock market has taken investors on a wild ride in 2008, confounding experts and amateurs alike, and the economy has seen its biggest turmoil in decades. It's enough to send anyone to the couch with a good book containing wisdom about such ...

Tax time is still a few months away, but experts recommend acting now if you want to maximize those deductions. This year, it's especially important to cut your losses, literally. "A lot of people have a lot of losers in the stock market and you can ...

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CHICAGO, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Investors on Thursday flocked to put options in Terex Corp (TEX.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ), betting that the recent run-up in its share price is not sustainable. Shares of Terex, a U.S. maker of mining ...

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MCLEAN, Va.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--BearingPoint, Inc. (OTCBB: BRGP), one of the worlds largest management and technology consultingfirms, today held its 2008 Annual Meeting of Shareholders in McLean, Va. At the meeting, shareholders approved the ...

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PARIS Stocks rose sharply Monday in Europe and Asia, lifted by government efforts to bolster economic growth. A week after a wave of coordinated interest rate cuts by major central banks, policy makers were meeting in Beijing for an annual ...

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Fixes Live Nation name in headline and includes company's stock symbol) By Gina Keating LOS ANGELES, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Blockbuster Inc (BBI.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) said it has struck a deal to sell tickets for top U.S. concert ...

PokerTek, Inc. , the industry pioneer and worldwide leader in automated poker tables and related software, today reported that it has received approval from NASDAQ to transfer the listing of its common stock from The NASDAQ Global Market to The ...

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The Bank of England slashed interest rates to their lowest level since 1951 on Thursday but said further steps would be required to prevent a credit squeeze tipping the country's economy into a deep recession. Both the government and the central bank ...

WASHINGTON -- Even though the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee warned that a collapse of Detroit's Big Three automakers could throw the economy into a cataclysmic tailspin, two senators said it remained uncertain whether Congress could act on ...

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TORONTO, Nov 28 (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index fell in early dealings on Friday with weakness in the energy group the main drag as oil prices dropped. The oil and gas sector was down 2.7 percent as the price of oil fell below $53 ...

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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Nippon Oil Corp, Japan's biggest refiner, and Nippon Mining Holdings have agreed to merge, forming what will they say will rank as one of the world's top 10 publicly traded oil companies as the firms seek to harness each ...

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MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 3, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wireless Ronin Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:RNIN), a Minneapolis-based worldwide digital signage provider, today announced the resignation of Kate Bolseth, executive vice president of engineering and ...

BILTHOVEN, NETHERLANDS -- 12/03/08 -- ASM International N.V. (NASDAQ: ASMI and Euronext Amsterdam: ASM) announces it will present at the Barclays Global Technology Conference in San Francisco, on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time ...

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Moretti has some cred on this topic; Cisco buys growth better than most. But Cisco isn't the only one shopping. Outgoing Symantec CEO John Thompson recently told analysts that his firm was shopping for bargains, too. Even Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL ) CEO ...

The yearlong bear market has done little to stem the flood of exchange-traded funds. At last count there were more than 700 , a 25% increase from a year earlier. These ETFs currently hold about $579.5 billion in combined assets. With so many funds ...