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Money: Goldman's Political Influence, Fannie Mae Stocks Still Trading Heavily...

New York Times finance reporter, Louise Story explains why Goldman Sachs is choosing not to put money into political advertising, despite the Supreme Court ruling that lessened restrictions. She also...

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GM IPO Details Emerge

(Alex Goldmark, Transportation Nation) General Motors post-bailout, post-bankruptcy IPO is expected to raise between $8-$13 billion and transform the U.S. government's role from majority owner to...

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Oil Prices Spike Amid Turmoil in Egypt

Oil prices have been floating around $90 a barrel for weeks, but now, the turmoil in Egypt has pushed the price up. Crude oil jumped close to 4% on Friday and then 3.2% yesterday to settle at $92.19 a...

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Financial 411: Stock Futures Down Amid Overseas Concerns

GM ProfitsGeneral Motors has posted its first profitable year since 2004. The automaker that was bailed out by the taxpayers before eventually filing for bankruptcy said it's now growing again. Profits...

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Financial 411: Stocks Surge on Strong Earnings

Dow at highest level since 2008What a difference a few days make. The week started off with a sharp drop in the stock market after S&P lowered its outlook on U.S. debt. But Wednesday, stocks soared...

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In Search of Value in a Sluggish Economy

Markets had severe case of the Monday's yesterday as stocks plunged. The Dow Jones industrials saw a drop of 634.76 points and not one stock in the Standard & Poor's 500 index saw an increase. In a...

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Stocks Drop as Attention Returns to Weak Economy

The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 520 points Wednesday on a day that concern over the weakening economy continued to percolate on Wall Street and send stocks tumbling.Investors turned their...

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Stocks Rally, End Day With Large Gains

Markets kept the gains made throughout the day.  The Dow Jones industrial average gained 423 points, or 3.95 percent, to close at 11,143.31.  The S&P 500 gained 51 points, or 4.63 percent, to close...

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Mechanical Traders May Be Partly to Blame for Market Fluctuations

Stocks plummeted yesterday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling more than 400 points and Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index closing down 53.24 points, at 1,140.65. The day was just the...

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Dow Plunges as Fear About Global Economy Sends Markets Lower

Stocks plunged Thursday, extending a rout around the world. Indicators across the financial markets had investors concerned that there's no clear way the U.S. will avoid another recession.At the close,...

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Gold Prices Plunge to $1600 Per Ounce

For months gold had been on a fantastic run, but last week gold prices plunged 9.6 percent, and then Monday another 2 percent, to $1,600 an ounce. Investors usually consider gold a safe bet, but they...

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Analyzing Facebook's NASDAQ Debut

Facebook will make its much-anticipated debut today on NASDAQ as a public company. As of last night, Facebook's offer had risen to $38 a share, putting the total value of the company at $104 billion....

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Google's 3Q Earnings Leak Early, Stock Plunges

Google Inc.'s stock plunged suddenly on Thursday afternoon after it released its third-quarter earnings report early, apparently by mistake.The Web search and advertising company's stock fell $68.19,...

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Bill Ackman: The Life and Times of the Activist Investor

If you follow the stock market or the business news, you’ve seen two companies dominating the headlines this week: Herbalife and J.C. Penny. And while it might seem that these two companies have...

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Twitter Shares, Where You Might Find Them Now

"We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale."And with that tweet, Twitter announced that is going public and...

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Russia Fails to Stop Ruble Crash

Russian President Vladimir Putin likely wants some hard currency this Christmas season. It's not charity—Russia has raised its interest rate to a shocking 17 percent to try and stop the free fall of...

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Trader Charged in Connection with Market 'Flash Crash'

A multimillionaire futures trader accused of being a key figure in bringing on the 2010 "flash crash" - when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 600 points in five minutes - was arrested in Great...

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Today's Takeaways: Racially Integrating Neighborhoods, Cash For Peace, And...

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China Stuns Markets With Second Day of Currency Devaluation

In a bid to shore up domestic exporters, China has devalued its currency for a second day—the renminbi was down 2 percent yesterday, and 1.6 percent today.The sudden devaluation has caught investors...

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Getting Financial Advisers to Care (More) About You

President Obama is proposing changes to how financial advisers provide retirement advice.“The challenge we’ve got is right now there are no uniform rules of the road that require retirement advisers to...

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China's 'Black Monday' Shakes Global Markets

Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Fears of a Chinese economic slowdown are haunting investors across the world.Stock markets in London, Paris, Frankfurt, and New York dipped...

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28 – Wall Street: San Quentin’s Stock Market Wizard

Everyone in San Quentin calls him Wall Street. Curtis Carroll aka Wall Street, was illiterate when he came into prison 20 years ago. Today he teaches his fellow prisoners about stocks. Through friends...

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Rise and Fall of Valeant

The pharmaceutical company Valeant is in big trouble. As recently as last summer, Valeant was admired on Wall Street and its stock traded above $250 a share. But since then, the share price has...

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Trump’s transition team claims he sold all his stocks but provides no proof

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at election night rally in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 9, 2016. REUTERS/Mike SegarWASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump sold all of his stocks in...

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Rising Stocks and the Trump Effect

Is your 401(k) looking great lately? You can thank President Donald Trump.Wall Street seems unfazed by alleged ties between Russia and the Trump Administration or the president's freewheeling Twitter...

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China's cash crunch

It's been a nervous few days on Chinese stock markets in the wake of last week's cash crunch, which saw interbank lending rates in China rise to as high as 28 per cent. The Chinese central bank has...

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Will It Get Worse For Big Tech?

Investors call them the FAANGs — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google — and in recent years, Wall Street has put a lot of faith in their continued success.But in the last few weeks, tech sector...

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Cracking the Code on Wall Street

Have you ever wanted to be rich? Really rich? Gregory Zuckerman, a special writer at The Wall Street Journal and author of “The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution,”...

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We're On Pandemic Time Now

As the pandemic continues to disrupt our communities and our daily routines, the very passage of time feels distorted: chronology seems to stretch, compress, and flip, sometimes all at once. In this...

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The Stories that Drive the Stock Market

The way we understand the eras we live through — from world wars, to the rise of the internet in the 2000s, to the pandemic of today — also directly impacts the economy. That’s according to Robert...

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GameStop, Reddit, and Wall Street

Hannah Denham, national business reporter on The Washington Post's breaking news team, explains the day traders' impact on stock prices and hedge funds.

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The Made Up World of Money

Money is “a social agreement,” according to Frederick Kaufman, a journalism professor at the City University of New York. You and the cashier both agree that a $20 bill — a green piece of paper that...

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To Crack the Code of Wall Street

Have you ever wanted to be rich? Really rich? Gregory Zuckerman, a special writer at The Wall Street Journal and author of “The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution,”...

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A New Book on the GameStop Stock Squeeze

Wall Street Journal columnist Spencer Jakab investigates the GameStop short squeeze organized by amateur investors on Reddit in his new book, The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the...

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New Albums from Animal Collective and Black Country, New Road, 'Owned'...

Animal Collective's new album Time Skiffs arrives following the longest gap in the band's release history; six years after their album Painting With. It's also the first album in a decade to feature...

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