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Stocks end a brutal August with meager gains
The stock market ended its worst August since 2001 with meager gains Tuesday after minutes from the latest Federal Reserve meeting showed officials' increasing concern about the economy.Stock indexes gave ...
New York Stock Exchange, US Federal Reserve, Dow 30, S&P 500, Dan Cook, All keywords...
finance.yahoo.com
4 days ago
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Lenovo to develop game consoles in China
Some 40 Lenovo software engineers have been spun off from the company to work for Beijing eedoo Technology, which will be tasked with developing and marketing the "eBox" game console, ...
China, Lenovo, Sony, Microsoft, Software engineers, All keywords...
reuters.com
1 week ago
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S&P; says U.S. should move to protect AAA-rating
The United States government needs to take steps to preserve its top AAA-rating, a Standard & Poor's Ratings (S&P) official told Dow Jones newswire in an interview published on Thursday.
Standard & Poor's, United States government, United States, John Chambers, Dow Jones, All keywords...
reuters.com
1 week ago
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WePay Raises $7.5 Million Series B to Expand Team and Boost MarketingEfforts
WePay, an online payment service that makes it easy for groups to collect and manage money online, today announced that it has secured $7.5M in Series B funding. Led by ...
California, August Capital August Capital, WePay, Highland Capital Partners, USD, All keywords...
marketwatch.com
2 weeks ago
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China may link yuan trade to currency basket Emerging Markets Report
A top Chinese central bank official suggested switching away from the U.S. dollar as a benchmark for the yuan's foreign-exchange rate, switching instead to a basket of currencies, according to ...
MarketWatch Inc., Hu Xiaolian, People's Bank of China, China, Bank, All keywords...
marketwatch.com
1 month ago
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Wall St sinks as economic alarm escalates - Yahoo! Finance
Investors fled the U.S. stock market on Tuesday and the S&P; 500 tumbled to its lowest level in eight months in a sell-off triggered by a wave of increasing alarm ...
New York Stock Exchange, USD, United States, Chuck Mikolajczak, S&P 500, All keywords...
finance.yahoo.com
2 months ago
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Monsters in the Market
Bernard Donefer, a finance professor at Baruch College and the author of a study in the most recent Journal of Trading called “Algos Gone Wild,” contends that the speed of ...
New York Stock Exchange, Securities and Exchange Commission, Bernard Donefer, Citigroup, Timothy Lavin, All keywords...
theatlantic.com
2 months ago
8.
An Inside Look at Bernie Madoff's Life in Prison
Last August, shortly after his arrival at the federal correctional complex in Butner, North Carolina, Bernard L. Madoff was waiting on the evening pill line for his blood-pressure medication when ...
Bernie Madoff, Jonathan Pollard, Butner, New York, Bernard Lawrence Madoff, All keywords...
nymag.com
3 months ago
9.
Stocks await jobs report
By CNNMoney.com staffJune 4, 2010: 4:35 AM ETNEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- U.S. stocks were set for a flat open Friday, but the government's monthly jobs report could provide direction before ...
United States, Dow 30, S&P 500, NEW YORK, USD, All keywords...
money.cnn.com
3 months ago
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Zipcar files for IPO that could fetch $75 million IPO Report
Revenue has grown from $13.7 million in 2005 to $131.2 million last year. Streetcar's revenue came in at $23.1 million in 2009. Still, the company has failed to turn a ...
USD, Zipcar, United Kingdom, MarketWatch Inc., Goldman Sachs, All keywords...
marketwatch.com
3 months ago
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Apple Beats Microsoft in Market Value (MSFT, AAPL)
An analyst upgrade of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has changed up the order again this morning, but as of yesterday’s close it was Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) that held the ...
Apple Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Analyst, USD, Analyst upgrade, All keywords...
247wallst.com
3 months ago
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SEC Said to Consider New Rules as It Investigates Market Plunge
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is considering regulatory changes aimed at slowing stock trading during periods of cascading prices, even though the agency hasn’t yet concluded what caused this ...
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Jesse Westbrook, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, United States, Washington, All keywords...
bloomberg.com
4 months ago
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Trading Error at Major Firm Blamed For Selloff
A human trading error at a major firm was the root cause of Thursday's sudden, 9 percent selloff in U.S. stocks, sources told CNBC. Multiple sources said a trader entered ...
New York Stock Exchange, Yahoo!, United States, New York, Trader, All keywords...
finance.yahoo.com
4 months ago
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Tesla files for IPO to raise up to $100 million
"We believe incumbent automobile manufacturers are at a crossroads and face significant industry-wide challenges," Tesla said in its filing, adding that "the legacy investments made by incumbent automobile manufacturers in ...
USD, Tesla Motors, Toyota Motor Corp., Toyota, California, All keywords...
marketwatch.com
4 months ago
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China Embraces Freedom of the Road
Members of the World Car Friendship Club (and many of the city's other car affinity societies) were congregating to go strawberry picking--an activity that most agreed they would never have ...
Morningstar Inc., All keywords...
news.morningstar.com
4 months ago
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