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Disney Stock

2009-01-06T07:25:00.001-08:00

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 ...

Best Stocks

2009-01-06T03:25:00.001-08:00

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

2009-01-02T19:25:00.001-08:00

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

2009-01-01T19:25:00.001-08:00

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 ...

Money Market Account

2009-01-01T15:25:00.001-08:00

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 ...

Stock Broker

2009-01-01T07:25:00.001-08:00

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

2009-01-01T03:25:00.001-08:00

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 ...

Stock Portfolio

2008-12-31T15:25:00.001-08:00

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Stocks Bonds

2008-12-30T19:25:00.001-08:00

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 ...

Gold Stocks

2008-12-30T03:25:00.001-08:00

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 ...

Disney Stock

2008-12-29T23:25:00.001-08:00

There's no denying that "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer is entertaining, popular, and passionate. On many occasions, he's even right. So, he's smart, funny, and the closest thing to a stock market rock star -- but is he smarter than you? The Fool's free ...

1. The Russian mafia and Russian oligarchs are found to be large investors with Madoff. During the next few weeks, a well-known CNBC investigative reporter documents that the Russian oligarchs, certain members of the Russian mafia and several ...

Best Stocks

2008-12-29T19:25:00.001-08:00

The data shows that stocks achieving five-star ratings on Motley Fool CAPS have outperformed the market by 12 percentage points annually for the first 20 months, and newly minted five-star stocks represent your best opportunity to capture those ...

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 ...

Stock Brokers

2008-12-29T11:25:00.001-08:00

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 ...

Stock Market Quotes

2008-12-28T15:25:00.001-08:00

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 ...

Value Stocks

2008-12-27T19:25:00.001-08:00

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 ...

Mutual Fund

2008-12-26T23:25:00.001-08:00

If insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results, then you'd have to really be crazy to believe that you can try the same thing, do it worse than the original and somehow manufacture a happy ending. And yet, that is ...

Uranium Stocks

2008-12-25T15:25:00.001-08:00

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 ...

Nasdaq Trades

2008-12-25T07:25:00.001-08:00

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 ...

Stock Screener

2008-12-24T19:25:00.001-08:00

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

2008-12-24T07:25:00.001-08:00

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 ...

Stocks Bonds

2008-12-24T03:25:00.001-08:00

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 ...

Best Stocks

2008-12-22T19:25:00.001-08:00

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 ...

Stock Brokers

2008-12-22T11:25:00.001-08:00

"The government should at least suspend securities transaction tax for a year. This will encourage market participants to take their position aggressively. The sentiment of the market will improve as the volume will increase," Bonanza Portfolio ...

Mutual Funds

2008-12-22T03:25:00.001-08:00

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 ...

Stock Market Quotes

2008-12-21T15:25:00.001-08:00

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 ...