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Making Money Alert: How to Lose $500 Billion in Three Days

Quick question: How do you lose $500 billion in market value in just three days?

Daily Data Flow: U.S. Stocks Little Changed; Fed Minutes Released

U.S. stocks were little changed, after yesterday’s decline, as a slump in technology shares tempered signs that a...

Riding out the Market Pullback

It was a rough week for global financial markets. The Dow Jones dropped 3.32%, while S&P 500 was...

Daily Data Flow: Stocks Tumble; iPad Mini; Facebook Jumps

Stocks Tumble, Oil Slides to Three-Month Low on Economy (Bloomberg) Global stocks slumped the most since July and...

Eagle Eye Opener: U.S. Futures Down; Dupont Miss

Losing Face: Will Social Media’s Biggest Player Disappoint Again? (USAToday.com) Investors in Facebook (FB), the No. 1 social...

PowerTrend Brief: More Earnings Mean More Volatility and Long-Term Opportunity?

Last week was frenetic in terms of companies reporting their quarterly earnings, economic data for both the United...

Daily Data Flow: Stocks Erase Losses; Yahoo! Beats Estimates

U.S. Stocks Erase Losses as Apple's Rise Offsets Earnings; Volcker Rule May Cut $10 Billion in Bank Profit,...

Betting Big on Natural Gas

It was a mixed week in global stock markets last week, after Friday's sharp pull back in the...

Daily Data Flow: Stocks Drop on Weak Earnings Reports; Lessons from 1987 Market Crash

U.S. stocks slid the most since June and Treasuries rose as companies from General Electric Co. to McDonald’s...

Booking 63.15% Gains in 5 Days — and Doubling down on Mortgage REITs

Financial markets bounced strongly the past week with the S&P ending the week 2% higher. Last week's Dividend...