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Oil prices sink to 27-month lows on rising supplies
October 23rd, 2014
Oil prices likely to continue to slide as oil prices sink to 27-month lows in a move that’s likely to continue pushing gasoline prices toward below $3 a gallon. Benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude for mid-December delivery dropped 2.4% to ...
Stocks rise: S&P 500 up for 3rd straight day
October 21st, 2014
Nasdaq also rises for a third straight day and the Dow comes back from a 120-point drop. Stocks closed higher Monday, adding to Friday’s strong rally as investors shake off last week’s volatile trading. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock ...
Steep Sell-Off Spreads Fear to Wall Street
October 16th, 2014
Dizzied by the turmoil, Wall Street experts agreed on one thing: The jarring day showed that fear had finally returned to markets that had become disconcertingly complacent. Waves of nervous selling buffeted the stock market in the United States ...
I.M.F. Asks Rich Nations for Support
October 8th, 2014
The International Monetary Fund said that cash-rich countries needed to step up large public investments to help keep the flagging global recovery on track. The International Monetary Fund, showing heightened concern over a slowing world economy, said on Tuesday ...
Earnings season begins with dollar in spotlight
October 8th, 2014
The bar is low for earnings season, with a strong dollar and slowing global growth. The third-quarter earnings season kicks off on Wall Street Wednesday with the bar set low due to analysts slashing profit forecasts — but also ...
SEC Members Urge Including Brokers in Trading Safeguards
October 6th, 2014
U.S. rules meant to guard against breakdowns in automated trading systems should be expanded to include brokerages that match orders away from regulated stock exchanges, according to two Securities and Exchange Commission members. Luis A. Aguilar and Kara M. ...
Tax inversion rules affect stocks
September 24th, 2014
The Obama administration’s tougher rules on offshore corporate inversions had an immediate effect Tuesday, pushing down the stock prices of companies considering such moves. But the highly technical changes to the tax code did not appear to go far ...
Stocks end lower: Nasdaq off more than 1%
September 23rd, 2014
Wall Street took a sharp hit Monday as tech stocks plunged and Alibaba (BABA) fell more than 4% on its second day of trading after a blockbuster start on Friday. Investor concerns of a slowing Chinese economy also weighed ...
Asian Equities Mixed on Soft Lead
September 9th, 2014
Asian indices were mostly higher on Tuesday amid light volumes as markets in South Korea and Hong Kong were closed for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Overnight in the U.S., Wall Street closed mixed with energy producers leading losses on oil’s ...
U.S. Stock Futures Are Little Changed Before Output Data
September 2nd, 2014
U.S. stock-index futures were little changed, after the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index recorded its biggest monthly gain since February, before data that may show manufacturing in the world’s biggest economy continued to expand in August. Apple Inc. and ...
