Investment and Stock Exchange

Consumer Confidence (61 news)

05:54 Stocks pull ahead on reassuring data : NEW YORK | Investors kicked off the stock market's third quarter with a moderate gain after getting some reassuring data on manufacturing and housing. The Dow Jones Industrial ...

12:54 Gold and Silver Comment 01/07/09

12:36 Dollar steady on lower US Consumer Confidence

Wall Street (55 news)

19:37 Earnings to set tone for stocks in week ahead : NEW YORK (Reuters) - With Wall Street stuck in a range since May, the start of second-quarter earnings season next week could prove to be a decisive factor for determining how much faith ...

17:54 Heidi Moore's not so worried about the rumored size of

17:30 The Employment Report: AP Misses Noting Worst June Sinc

Bankruptcy (45 news)

19:10 GM and Chrysler's bankruptcy cases at a glance : A summary of developments in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC: GENERAL MOTORS _ DAY 32 WHERE DOES IT ...

19:10 GM waits for judge's ruling on sale plan

16:36 GM might exit Chapter 11 soon, with an IPO in 2010

Recession (45 news)

18:16 Small business lending falls sharply : Despite emergency stimulus measures, small business lending continues to fall. In the just-ended quarter, the Small Business Administration's flagship program backed 30% fewer loans than it did a year ...

17:25 Hot dogs replace steaks this Fourth of July

16:10 Tax revenue drop fuels states' financial crisis

Gold (45 news)

16:39 Treasury yields declined across the board, with 30-year : Treasury yields declined across the board, with 30-year yield -0.03 to 4.32%. 10-year -0.05 to 3.5%. 5-year -0.1 to 2.42%. Gold -1.1% to $930.90. Crude -3.9% to %66.64. The Euro -1% against ...

16:19 Gold Drops As Dollar Rebounds

15:23 An hour to go in the trading week and stocks have been

SP 500 (39 news)

16:49 U.S. stocks mark longest losing streak since March : SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks made a sharp retreat Thursday, with losses steepening after the New York Stock Exchange extended the trading session by 15 minutes. The Dow Jones Industrial|Dow ...

16:27 Stocks slide into third weekly loss in longer day

15:59 Stock swoon deepens, Dow off 200 points

Bernard Madoff (39 news)

19:33 Al Lewis: Getting Religion in Market Of Shattered Trust : Feeling spiritually bankrupt after watching Bernie Madoff's sentencing, I took the subway uptown to the Union Theological Seminary, where they teach a class called "Christianity and ...

16:44 Reactions to My Madoff Rant: No Apologies

14:05 Gov't seizes Madoffs' Upper East Side penthouse

Unemployment Rate (37 news)

19:30 June Labor Market Report – Details Less Bearish than He : June Labor Market Report – Details Less Bearish than Headlines Civilian Unemployment Rate: 9.5% in June vs. 9.4% in May, cycle low is 4.4% in March 2007. Payroll Employment: -467,000 ...

17:07 467K jobs cut in June; jobless rate at 9.5 percent

15:52 U.S. unemployment hits 9.5 percent

European Central Bank (34 news)

19:08 US Dollar, Japanese Yen Up Sharply as Disappointing US : - Euro Down as ECB Leaves Door Open to Further Rate Cuts - Swiss Franc Gain vs. Euro Presents SNB Intervention Risks Through Friday - British Pound Falls...

13:11 Porte-parole privilege

12:57 ECB keeps interest rate at 1 pct

General Motors (34 news)

19:10 GM and Chrysler's bankruptcy cases at a glance : A summary of developments in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC: GENERAL MOTORS _ DAY 32 WHERE DOES IT ...

19:10 GM waits for judge's ruling on sale plan

16:36 GM might exit Chapter 11 soon, with an IPO in 2010

Jobless (28 news)

19:08 Latin American Markets: CORRECT: Stocks hurt after U.S. : LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) - Equities across Latin America fell Thursday after bleak U.S. monthly jobs report rekindled questions about when economic recovery will solidly take root.

17:07 467K jobs cut in June; jobless rate at 9.5 percent

13:59 Jobless consumers will hold back recovery

Federal Reserve (26 news)

12:51 Dems Reaping What They Sowed on Rising Credit Card Rate : Congressional Democrats this week have been publicly incredulous that the credit card industry would have the temerity to raise rates and limit lending in the months before legislation restricting those ...

12:41 Disappointing jobs data has depressed interest-rate fut

11:58 Fed-funds futures lower odds of rate hike

Dow Jones Industrial (25 news)

17:30 NewsWatch: Blue chips lag as recovery favors growth pla : The sudden contraction in U.S. consumer spending and global liquidity that brought some of America’s most revered companies to their knees has made the Dow Jones Industrial ...

17:17 Bleak job report sends Dow down 223 points

16:49 U.S. stocks mark longest losing streak since March

Interest rates (24 news)

14:57 Euro Falls Versus Major Rivals : The euro saw weakness on Thursday in New York as falling global stocks led to risk aversion. Investors also mulled over the European Central Bank's widely-expected decision to leave Interest rates|interest ...

09:10 Trichet: Current ECB interest rates 'appropriate'

08:49 ECB leaves rates unchanged at 1%

Securities and Exchange Commission (22 news)

11:46 SEC investigator raised Madoff suspicions in 2004 to n : With the agency under pressure to look for wrongdoing in the mutual fund industry, Genevievette Walker-Lightfoot wasn't able to pursue the case, sources say. An investigator at the Securities and ...

06:51 Tontine Unwinds Its Broadwind Energy Position

06:34 SEC lawyer issued Madoff warning in 2004

Volatility (22 news)

09:22 NFP Report and ECB Press Conference Dominates Trade : FX Highlights The YEN and the US dollar gain ground before NFP news likely will reveal 26 year high in unemployment rates. EUR/US dips to fresh lows on Moody’s downgrades its credit rating on Ireland. ...

08:57 AUD/USD - Australian Dollar US Dollar, American Session

08:57 EUR/CAD - Euro Canadian Dollar, American Session - 02/0

Citigroup (19 news)

04:32 WPP downgraded to sell at Citigroup : LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Citigroup downgraded U.K. advertising firm WPP Group to sell from hold, saying a continuation of the trends in the second quarter would suggest a 7.5% ...

18:42 Lear to reorganize under Chapter 11 bankruptcy

17:18 Lear files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Inflation (18 news)

05:13 Romania Producer Price Inflation Slows In May : Thursday, Romania's National Institute of Statistics said in a report that producer prices rose 1.4% year-on-year in May, slower than a 2.5% rise in the preceding month.

02:54 India Wholesale Prices Decline For Third Consecutive We

20:12 Gold Isn't Tracking Inflation as Well as Oil and TIPS

Retail Sales (18 news)

14:57 HK retail sales in 6.2% drop : THE monthly retail sales value in May in Hong Kong dropped 6.2 percent year on year to HK$21.6 billion (US$2.8 billion), the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government said ...

05:13 Hong Kong May Retail Sales Decline Further

19:40 Hong Kong Retail Data Due On Thursday

Oil prices (17 news)

19:30 Oil Prices Plummet Nearly 4% on Bigger-Than-Expected U. : (BEIJING) Foreign direct investment in China faces 'unprecedented difficulties' after falling for eight months, the longest stretch of declines this decade, Vice-Commerce Minister Chen Jian said.

17:11 Crude Oil Prices Plunge Below $67

03:39 US: Construction Spending Fell in May

The pound (16 news)

15:37 British Pound Crosses

10:32 Currency Pair Overview: Majors Split Throughout the U.S

British pound US dollar (15 news)

05:13 GBP/USD Technical Analysis 2 July 2009 : Pound/Dollar made indecisive movement yesterday, forming divergence on the 4 hour chart. The Sterling made a bottom at 1.6386, than rose to 1.6541, closing the day at 1.6477. On the 1 hour chart is seen ...

20:29 Vietnam Economy Continues to Rebound, Boasts Best Perfo

20:29 Chinese, Indian Manufacturing Expands While Rest of Wor

Pending Home Sales (15 news)

11:46 Pending Home Sales Show Surprising Increase : Sold At The Top submits: Yesterday, the National Association of Realtors ((NAR)) released their Pending Home Sales Report for May showing a 6.7% year-over-year increase in Pending ...

08:57 Misguided Optimism in Double-Digit Unemployment Rates

08:57 JPMorgan Solar Picks and Pans (ENER, ESLR, FSLR, ASTI,

Johnson and Johnson (14 news)

13:34 MarketWatch First Take: Elan deal positions J&J ahead o : With members of the baby-boom generation hitting retirement age in force in the next few years, drug companies are trying to line up the blockbuster medications that, they hope, will ...

11:48 Johnson & Johnson Buys Access to Alzheimer's Drug

10:44 Biotech Stocks: Drug stocks slide; Elan climbs on J&J d

AIG (14 news)

20:27 Market Winners & Losers: Constellation Brands, AIG : The first day of Wall Street’s third quarter brought gains to the major indices as the week looks to a holiday-shortened end. The Dow gained 0.7%, the S&P added 0.4% and the Nasdaq closed up 0.6%.

19:11 NYSE Admits AIG Delisting Goof-Up

18:21 Zurich deal for AIG auto unit drives U.S. expansion

Exelon (14 news)

12:43 S&P reiterates credit rating on Exelon : NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Thursday reiterated its ratings on Exelon's corporate debt following the utility giant's increased offer to buy NRG Energy ...

12:21 Exelon ups NRG hostile bid; NRG shares slip

11:05 NRG board to review Exelon's revised proposal

Bank of America (14 news)

17:12 Bank of America sets $713 million TARP payment : CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Bank of America Corp. says its board has authorized roughly $713 million in dividend payments to the U.S. government under the troubled asset relief program....

16:49 B. of A. to pay $713 mln in TARP dividend

19:32 Bank of America to accept California state IOUs

NRG Energy (13 news)