Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Stocks Volatility



BLUE BELL, Pa. - (Business Wire) Unisys Corporation (Unisys or the Company) (NYSE: UIS) announced today that it has commenced private exchange offers and consent solicitations in respect of its 6 7/8% Senior Notes due 2010 (the 2010 ...


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Stocks And Shares



Investors are adding consumer confidence to their growing list of things to worry about. Stocks fell sharply Tuesday after a private research group said consumer confidence unexpectedly fell in June. Even with the slide, stocks ended the second ...


NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks slid Tuesday as a surprising drop in a gauge of consumer confidence sparked caution about the economy's recovery prospects, hurting industrial, technology and energy shares. The drop in the Conference Board's measure ...



Stock Brokers



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Monday, June 29, 2009

Stock Broker



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Nasdaq Trades



NEW YORK (AP) Investors are beginning a holiday-shortened week on cautious footing. U.S. stock futures are slightly higher amid mixed moves in overseas markets. Stocks in Asia were lower, while European markets advanced. Investors are pleased by ...


STOCKS were flat in early trade today with the strong local currency hampering gains in the resource sector, a Johannesburg-based equities trader said. The JSE all share index had edged up 0.16% with resources collecting 0.13%. Gold counters were 0 ...



Sunday, June 28, 2009

Stock Portfolio



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A s stocks regain lost ground, financial planners say they're getting more calls from old and new clients asking much the same thing: Is it now time to dive back into the stock market? Some callers had bailed out of stocks last year in a panic and ...



Saturday, June 27, 2009

Gold Stocks



Precious metals like silver and gold have pulled back to support levels and trending sideways. This week will be interested as we watch prices bounce or breakdown. The energy sector looks be breaking down with more power as the bullish percent index ...


(RTTNews) - Despite a strong start to the session, stocks finished Friday's session on a mixed note. The day's trading was slowed by below average volume, which prompted largely limited movement in the equity markets. The major averages finished on ...



Jim Cramer



On CNBC today, Jim Cramer had the gall to attack someone for saying things that aren't, in his mind at least, true. Because you shouldn't say things that aren't true! Prepare yourself for a ridiculous clip. "They just make it up," Cramer said. "I get ...



Friday, June 26, 2009

Mutual Funds



NEW YORK (June 26) - Wall Street's spring rally has allowed many mutual funds to score an achievement that has eluded them throughout the credit crisis and recession: a winning quarter. The stock market rally that has lifted the Standard & Poor's 500 ...


The pain experienced by the "set it and forget it" faction of Americans saving for retirement got a hearing in the nation's capital last week as regulators, mutual fund industry representatives, employers, consultants and others took up the issue of ...



Online Stock Trading



Stocks slipped Friday as the economic jitters that marked trading earlier in the week returned to the fore. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was recently off 48 points at 8424, marking a disappointing follow-up to its 173-point surge in the previous ...


Private sector lender Bank of Rajasthan (BoR) has entered into a strategic agreement with KARVY Stock Broking Ltd. (KSBL), one of leading stock broking companies in India, to offer online trading facility to bank customers. Following this tie-up ...



Nasdaq Tennis



(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for June 25, 2009. Since late October market makers are now required to be on the bid as much as they are on the ...


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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Toronto Stock Exchange



TORONTO - Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. (TSX:FFH) said Thursday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has completed its investigation into the company and said it does not intend to recommend any enforcement action. "We were gratified to ...



Stock Market Quotes



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NEW YORK, June 25 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose sharply on Thursday after the latest Treasury auction garnered strong demand, pressuring bond yields, while consumer discretionary shares gained. The auction of $27 billion of 7-year notes completed this ...



Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Stocks Volatility



BRUSSELS, June 24 (UPI) -- The EU and OPEC concluded their sixth meeting in Brussels to consider future trends in the energy sector as the world economy emerges from recession. Representatives from the European Union and Organization of Petroleum ...



Mutual Fund



(Reuters) - American International Group Inc's ( AIG.N ) plans to sell its broker-dealer business, AIG Advisor Group, are facing hurdles, the New York Post said. Division CEO Arthur Tambaro in April said that AIG was in final discussions with a ...


HONG KONG, June 24 (Reuters) - Asian stocks bounced up on Wednesday from a one-month low hit the previous day while the dollar drifted, with investors bracing for a Federal Reserve decision and any signs the central bank is worried about the jump in ...



Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Stocks And Shares



The two pharmaceutical companies have received requests from U.S. antitrust regulators for more information on their proposed merger. In addition, Merck launched a $4.25 billion four-part debt sale, said IFR, a Thomson Reuters service. Shares of ...


NEW YORK -- A surprisingly bleak forecast for the world economy sent stocks tumbling. Major stock indexes dropped more than 2 percent Monday after the World Bank estimated the global economy will shrink 2.9 percent in 2009. It previously predicted a ...



Stock Chart



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Monday, June 22, 2009

Stock Screener



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NEW YORK, June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) (TSX: TRI) (LSE: TRIL) (NASDAQ: TRIN) , the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced a plan to unify its dual listed ...



Uranium Stocks



VIENNA (Reuters) - A uranium fuel supply plan hailed by U.S. President Barack Obama as a way to stem the spread of nuclear arms stalled in talks at the U.N. atomic watchdog on Thursday after resistance from developing nations. The International ...



Saturday, June 20, 2009

Jim Cramer



Jim Cramer fills his blog on RealMoney every day with his up-to-the-minute reactions to what's happening in the market and his legendary ahead-of-the-crowd ideas. This week he blogged on: HMOs, rolling back the clock, and the housing bottom



Friday, June 19, 2009

Mutual Funds



TORONTO, June 19 /CNW/ - The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today published for comment proposed amendments to National Instrument 81-101 Mutual Fund Prospectus Disclosure, its Forms and Companion Policy, as well as related amendments, that ...


Tess Vigeland: And now we turn to mutual funds of another sort. The kind that used to be the opposite of risky. Vanguard made some significant changes to three of its money market mutual funds in an effort to preserve some sort of return for ...



Monday, June 15, 2009

Stock Chart



MUMBAI: India Infoline has advised traders to buy TCS at current levels with stoploss of Rs 730. "On the daily chart, TCS has broken out from a Symmetrical Triangle pattern. The stock had been moving back and forth within the context of the Triangle ...



Saturday, June 13, 2009

Hedge Fund



The flurry of lawsuits over the Bernard Madoff swindle continues to escalate as some offshore companies filed a class-action case against a Bermuda hedge fund over $3.5 billion lost in the infamous Ponzi scheme. Criterium Capital Funds, based in the ...


F inance Minister Jim Flaherty criticized his European counterparts Friday for doing too little to restore confidence in their banking systems, exposing strains in the global effort to reverse the recession and further highlighting the continent as a ...



Friday, June 12, 2009

Graph Stocks



Real yields have curves; unless, of course, it's a flat yield curve. The yield curve is exactly that: a curved line on a graph that plots the interest rates of several bonds with different maturity dates, starting one month all the way up to 30 years ...



Disney Stock



Disney Channel will launch the series, consisting of 52 episodes, on Playhouse Disney block in the U.S. in the Spring of 2010. The channel has access to more than ninety-seven million viewing households and has acquired all broadcast rights to the ...



Best Stocks



We all want the best in life, whether it's the best clothes, the best cars, the best houses, or the best stocks . One way to find the best stocks is to look for companies that multiple analysts have picked to outperform. It's the analysts' job to ...


Do you have a "very best" stock? A stock that brings you closer to retirement year in and year out? One like Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT), which -- tracked by Jeremy Siegel, author of Stocks for the Long Run -- turned $1,000 into more than $2 million over ...



Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Nasdaq Tennis



REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS ), announced today that EA SPORTS(TM) Grand Slam(R) Tennis is now available in North American retail stores and will be available worldwide by June 12, 2009. Developed ...


Cardinal Bank (NASDAQ:CFNL) is pleased to announce that its annual Charity Classic has raised over $225,000, bringing the seven-year fundraising total to $1,775,000. The funds raised from the 2009 tournament will be used to continue Cardinals ...



Stock Market Quotes



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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Stock Xchange



Donald McGhan, 75, the former chairman of a financial company that failed while owing $95 million to real estate investors, pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to four counts of wire fraud. His guilty plea agreement calls for a prison term of ...


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Monday, June 8, 2009

Stocks Volatility



CORAL GABLES, Fla., June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MasTec, Inc. (NYSE: MTZ ) today announced that it has closed its $100 million convertible note offering and the secondary offering of shares of common stock for certain selling shareholders. In ...


Barrick Gold (NYSE: ABX ) closed at $37.18. Gold is recently up 1.43% to $977 according to Bloomberg. ABX June option implied volatility is at 45, July is at 47; below its 26-week average of 66, according to Track Data, suggesting decreasing price ...



Sunday, June 7, 2009

Stock Broker



Q Can I claim a loss on worthless stock without selling the shares? F.T., Erie, Pa. A You might, but youll have to determine whether your stock qualifies as worthless according to IRS rules. Its often simpler to just sell. If selling ...



Saturday, June 6, 2009

Uranium Stocks



"Certain commodities are getting hot again; both copper and gold have the wind at their backs in this market, while uranium has also caught our attention," says Brandon Clay . "Uranium is a perennially despised substance with a back story in ...



Friday, June 5, 2009

Stock Certificates



NEW YORK (AP) - JetBlue Airways Corp. said Tuesday it plans to raise funds by selling 20 million new shares and $150 million in convertible debentures. The airline said it will use proceeds from its offers for general corporate purposes. The ...



Forex Trading



MONTREAL , June 5 /PRNewswire/ - FX or Forex trading refers to trading on the Foreign Exchange Market. This is the market where foreign currency is traded. As cash has the most liquidity, this market is the most liquid of the financial markets in the ...



Thursday, June 4, 2009

Best Stocks



June 4 (Bloomberg) -- To the unschooled ear, Warren Buffett s reassuring words that Americas best days lie ahead and that hes buying U.S. stocks sound prescient, not preposterous. But fair warning -- hes not as bullish as he sounds ...



Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Online Stock Trading



Biogen Idec Inc. called a recess at its annual meeting Wednesday as activist investor Carl Icahn attempted to place dissident nominees on the board amid a contentious yearslong fight with the company. The meeting, which started at 9 a.m. in Cambridge ...


June 03, 2009 (LBO) Sri Lankan stocks close flat on Wednesday as the market stabilized at current price levels, while the rupee continued to be steady against the greenback, brokers and dealers said. The spot dollar was trading at 114.85/114.95 ...