Commodity Trading

LONDON: Commodity markets faced a mixed week as traders tracked a deepening recession in key consumer the United States and a gloomy global economic outlook from the International Monetary Fund. Government data showed that the US economy contracted ...

Commodity Online MUMBAI: The booming gold market in India that imports and consumes the largest quantity of the yellow metal in the world is attracting global players. Leading global banks are now lining up to trade gold in India. Scotiabank, Canada ...

Mutual Fund

Sunday, January 25, 2009 There are Fool books and articles and speeches about how active management seldom works, and how the best fund managers are the ones with long, consistent records and ultra-low costs. But the Fool has always liked to jab its ...

Fiscal fitness is knocking weight loss off the top of many New Year's resolution lists, thanks to 2008's market drubbing. That often means casting off last year's worst-performing mutual funds for more promising alternatives. Though a recovery may be ...

Uranium Stocks

LONDON (AFP) Western countries believe Iran has nearly exhausted its stocks of a raw material needed to make nuclear weapons and have started diplomacy to stop Tehran acquiring more, The Times reported on Saturday. Iran's supply of yellow cake ...

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Fair Isaac Corp ( FIC ) Stock Quote , Chart , News , Add to Watchlist (AP) - Among the stock activity stories for Thursday, Jan. 29, from AP Financial News: CHICAGO (AP) Shares of Black & Decker Corp. sank Tuesday after the power tools maker said ...

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The world's third-biggest clothing retailer by sales reported a bigger rise than expected in fourth-quarter pretax profits on Thursday but sales in December lagged forecasts. The company said the outlook for future expansion was positive and said it ...

Stock Splits

NEW YORK (AP) Wall Street grew more optimistic Monday on news that the drugmaker Pfizer will acquire rival Wyeth for $68 billion and a surprise jump in sales of existing homes in December. Stock indexes rose more than 1 percent, including the Dow ...

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is reviewing his investment portfolio, Saudi newspapers quoted him as saying on Wednesday, after his Kingdom Holding Co ( 4280.SE ) posted a record loss in the fourth quarter. "Kingdom ...

Commodity Trading

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Latin American stocks rose modestly on Friday after oil and metal prices climbed. Brazil's Bovespa index jumped 0.6 percent to 38,132, and Mexico's benchmark IPC bumped up 0.2 percent to 19,348. Argentina's Merval closed up 0 ...

Amerex Brokers trader Francisco Padua speaks to a client at company headquarters in Sugar Land. He wonders if a carbon tax can be passed by Congress. As with other products traded on commodity markets, the price for CO2 permits could be volatile ...

Stocks Volatility

CHICAGO, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index surged on Tuesday in a sign that more wide stock swings are expected in the near term as investors scrambled for protection on concerns over the health of the banking ...

Money Market Account

Hundreds of thousands of homeowners on variable-rate mortgages are still waiting to find out if their lenders will pass on the Bank of England's latest half point cut in the cost of borrowing. Abbey, Britain's second biggest mortgage lender ...

Uranium Stocks

The CIA has hampered al-Qaida's free rein in the tribal region of western Pakistan, and Iran appears to be nearing a decision on whether to build a nuclear warhead, departing CIA chief Michael Hayden said Thursday. "The great danger was that the ...

The FTSE Small Cap index .FTSC gains 0.1 percent in early trade, underperforming both blue chips .FTSE and midcaps .FTMC , up 2.1 percent and 1.7 percent, respectively. The FTSE Developed European Small Cap index .FTDEUSC adds 2.8 percent, while the ...

Nasdaq Trades

Markets ended lower in a session launched by weak residential construction data and earnings misses from Microsoft ( MSFT ), Nokia ( NOK ) and Fifth Third Bancorp ( FITB ). Profit reports cut both ways Thursday, driving stocks including Apple ( AAPL ...

NEW YORK, Jan 21 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks jumped on Wednesday, rebounding from a two-month low, after a surprisingly healthy earnings report from IBM fueled optimism that technology may fare better than other sectors during the recession. Financial ...

Stock Certificates

The New America High Income Fund, Inc. (the "Fund") (NYSE: HYB) announced today that the Board of Directors of the Fund has adopted a proposal to implement a reverse stock split of 1-for-5. The Fund expects the effective date for the reverse stock ...

NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Centennial, CO, United States, 01/19/2009 - BullMarketGifts.com, a new online retailer specializing in unique, vintage, and one-of-a-kind Wall Street and stock market memorabilia, announces the release of its new website ...

Disney Stock

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Walt Disney Co.'s chief executive, Robert Iger, received a compensation package the company valued at $51.1 million in fiscal 2008, up 85 percent from a year earlier, according to an Associated Press calculation of figures ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co President and Chief Executive Robert Iger received an 11 percent hike in total compensation in fiscal 2008, to $30.6 million, according to a proxy filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ...

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NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Investors in consumer-products stocks should shift their portfolios to more defensive stocks with less leverage in 2009, Bank of America Securities-Merrill Lynch told its clients Tuesday. Paper-tissue maker Kimberly-Clark Corp ...

Nasdaq Tennis

Robert Kotick's mother dates his compulsive capitalism to toddlerhood, when young Bobby sold her ashtray to a friend who had come over for a playdate. He netted $3. After that the moneymaking ideas never stopped pouring out. By junior high Kotick had ...

Published author, former healthcare professional, certified personal trainer, certified tennis coach Dr. Reents had an extensive background in clinical medicine and clinical pharmacology prior to launching his current endeavor: www.AthleteInMe.com ...

Stock Market Quotes

PERTH, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Macquarie Group has cut its forecast for Brent crude oil prices by over 20 percent to an average $59 a barrel over 2009, it said on Monday, citing weaker world oil consumption and high stock levels. The Australian bank's ...

A very anemic reading on retail sales and worries about the banking industry pounded stocks early Wednesday. The Commerce Department said retail sales dropped 2.7 percent, more than double the 1.2 percent decline analysts expected. In midmorning ...

Stock Xchange

Many bought shares of stock in the Fresno-based retailer when it went public in April 1986. Some only bought one, just to be part of the company. Now, the department store chain, whose history dates back more than 100 years has filed for bankruptcy ...

Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Gulf shares declined as forecasts Saudi Basic Industries Corp.s profit will drop stoked concern corporate earnings in the region may be lower than expected. Saudi Basic, the regions biggest publicly traded company known ...

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HONG KONG , Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mass Financial Corp. (the "Company") (Pink Sheets: MFCAF) is pleased to announce that its common shares will begin trading today on the Vienna Stock Exchange and will be quoted in Euros, under ticker ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium , January 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WABCO Holdings Inc. [ http://www.wabco-auto.com ] (NYSE: WBC), a global technology leader and tier-one supplier to the commercial vehicle industry, will hold its Q4 and full year 2008 earnings ...

Jim Cramer Mad Money

When researching a stock, savvy investors pore over a company's earnings statements to see if numbers add up. Here's one other number to consider: the company's address. Several experts believe buying the stock of a local company can be an advantage ...

Jim Cramer highlighted shares of American Public Education (Nasdaq: APEI ) as a speculative play on Friday's Mad Money . He touted the stock as a play on a company that makes money when more people lose their jobs. Cramer pointed to American Public ...

Stock Screener

ANSWER : The place to start is with MetLifes financial-strength ratings. Compare ratings from different credit ratings agencies to get as broad a picture as possible. MetLife lists its ratings on its web site here , but its a good idea to cross ...

Money Market Account

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Escalating credit costs forced Bank of America Corp. to report a $2.39 billion fourth-quarter loss, hours after it convinced the federal government it needed a multibillion-dollar lifeline to survive the absorption of Merrill Lynch ...

Unlock your home's wealth Martyn Hocking (Editor, Which? Money) 12/ 1/2009 UNTIL recently, you may well have been relying on your home to help fund your retirement. However, as house prices have fallen by more than 6% in England and Wales in ...

Uranium Stocks

WASHINGTON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leaders no longer feel safe in Afghan-Pakistan border areas, where they face heavy U.S. and Pakistani pressure and their local welcome has worn out, CIA chief Michael Hayden said on Thursday. Hayden's comments ...

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Activision Blizzard Inc ( ATVI ) Stock Quote , Chart , News , Add to Watchlist BeaconEquity.com's Trade Alerts are brief analyses on the active stocks each day that are affecting the markets. These include breaking news, insider activity, recent 52 ...

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I just got off the phone with Ken Akoundi, a civil engineer turned risk manager who just left fund-of-funds group Optima Fund Management after running its risk-management operations. He agrees with me that some kind of risk auditing function or ...

In response to counterparty risk concerns, mini-prime brokers are offering smaller hedge funds the hosted technology to manage multiple prime relationships. Following last year's market turmoil, which made it abundantly clear that even the largest ...

Nasdaq Tennis

WEST PALM BEACH - The pitch, made at a tennis club, never mentioned Bernard L. Madoff, but it was smooth and persuasive: Put your money in an account at Westport National Bank in Connecticut, and you'll enjoy a healthy return. The Palm Beach County ...

Stock Splits

SINGAPORE: Asian stocks rose for an eighth day, pushing the benchmark index to its longest streak of gains since 2004, on optimism government spending and lower interest rates will alleviate the global recession. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index rose 1 ...

Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks in Europe and Asia extended their 2009 rally on speculation that government efforts to revive the global economy through tax cuts and spending will spur growth. U.S. futures drifted between gains and losses. Nestle SA and ...

Stock Market Quotes

Using Market- Watch u To get the latest price, plus additional news on any publicly traded stock, users need only enter the stock symbol (i.e., MSFT for Microsoft) and a full page with the latest available market data and news will display. The ...

Uranium Stocks

Spike ... uranium stocks have bucked the market's downward trend as demand for nuclear power grows. Uranium prices at six-month highs World demand for nuclear power up Meanwhile, "dirty" fuel sources slump FOREIGN investors are driving up the value ...

WITH THE PRICE OF CRUDE oil cascading down from $147 to $35 per barrel in just five months last year, many had given up on this commodity. Their argument stems from the global economic slowdown and the attendant "demand destruction" has been thrown ...

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LONDON (AP) British bank Barclays PLC said Wednesday it was cutting more than 400 technology jobs after a review of its operations. The bank said the job cuts were designed to eliminate obsolete or duplicated roles and affected 158 permanent IT ...

Graph Stocks

NEW YORK (Menafn - MarketWatch) -- Whether or not the "January Effect" materializes this year has several implications. First, there is often confusion between our "January Barometer" indicator and the "January Effect." Over the years we showed in ...

The safety net is almost gone, the nest egg is cracking. Many Americans have recently found themselves changing retirement plans after losing a substantial amount of home equity as the housing market and the overall U.S. economy struggle. These folks ...

Gold Stocks

Israel is considering submitting a complaint to the United Nations of Hamas' use of the world body's facilities for terror purposes, after 30 people were killed when an Israeli army artillery shell struck a UN school in Gaza. Israeli troops say that ...

Disney Stock

TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer takes a look at the next six Dow stocks: Caterpillar, Chevron, Coca-Cola, Disney, Du Pont and General Electric. Editor's note: This is the second part of Jim Cramer's series of predictions for the Dow components in 2009. If ...

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WARSAW, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Poland should not decide in a referendum whether to adopt the euro amid the global financial crisis as it can cause high volatility in the currency market, the central bank's Monetary Policy Council member was quoted as ...

Filed under: Pfizer (PFE) , Newsletters , Johnson and Johnson (JNJ) , Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) , Stocks to Buy , Best Stocks for 2009 Health care has long been considered a recession-resistant business. Given the current economic challenges, it's ...

Stocks Volatility

Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks climbed to a two-month high, following the markets worst annual drop since the Great Depression, as General Motors Corp. got its first cash infusion from the government and rising oil prices lifted energy shares ...

Stock Brokers

KARACHI: The Karachi stock market remained on a negative note on the first day of the New Year Thursday, as investors were cautious in the wake of continuation of selling activities by the distressed brokers and institutions, analysts said. The ...

LAHORE: PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali has confirmed his party was in contact with the PML-Q and said things will become clearer in the next few days, a private TV channel reported. Talking to reporters in Lahore, Nisar said the PPP-led ...

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Peggy Turbett/The Plain Dealer Stephen Gacka, a junior at St. Edward High School, monitored the stock market daily as he led his team in the Ohio Stock Market Game. In a volatile market, Gacka took big risks to turn an initial investment of $100,000 ...

Action Products comments on recent share price volatility Co reported that management does not know of any reason, from the company's operations or ongoing business activity, relating to a recent decline in the co's stock price and higher-than-usual ...

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The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) had defended its decision to suspend the trading fo the shares of dominant power distributor Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) since Dec. 17 last year saying that the board of directors of the bourse was never ...

A fund manager who killed himself after losing $1.4billion (950million) in the Madoff scandal invested money on behalf of Europe's wealthiest aristocratic and royal families. Ren-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet was found dead in his office on New ...

Uranium Stocks

With BHP Billiton Ltd. ( BHP ), its a case of the strong getting stronger and possibly even running away from the pack. Back in 2001, BHP Ltd. and Billiton PLC merged to form BHP Billiton Ltd., the worlds leading diversified resources group ...

PARIS, Dec 31 (Reuters) - European shares were seen rising on Wednesday, tracking gains on Wall Street, but volume will be thin as just a handful of bourses are open in a shortened session ahead of the New Year break. Financial spreadbetters expect ...