Jul 31

Stocks mostly slumping
CNNMoney.com - 2 hours ago
By Catherine Clifford, CNNMoney.com staff writer NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Wall Street struggled on Thursday amid fresh concerns over the labor market and ...
Blue chips slump, techs jump CNNMoney.com
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US STOCKS-Wall St seen falling after GDP, jobless claims data
Reuters - 6 hours ago
By Walter Brandimarte NEW YORK, July 31 (Reuters) - US stock index futures pointed to a sharply lower open on Thursday after data showed the US economy grew ...
US STOCKS-Futures rise on GDP hopes, corporate results, oil Reuters
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Jul 31

The Stocks to Own in This Choppy Market
Motley Fool - 22 minutes ago
You can view our top five ideas for new money with a 30-day free trial. This article was first published June 12, 2008. It has been updated. ...
Jul 31
Taiwan is to allow Chinese investors to participate in the island's stock and futures markets from October, the Wall Street Journal reported. It will also permit firms with Chinese shareholders to list on Taiwan's stock exchange. According to Wu Tang-chieh, vice chairman of Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Committee, investments will be made under China's Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor (QDII) program, through which banks, fund managers and insurers invest in overseas securities on beha
Jul 31
Alaska Senator Ted Stevens (R-Bridge to Nowhere), who famously informed us all that the Internet is "not a truck" ("it's a series of tubes"), was so good at shaking down big mules with his Northern Lights PAC that he piled up more sleaze-bucks than he could spend on his own campaigns. So when you have excess money, what do you do? Why, invest it, of course! Invest in fellow legislators, to make sure they vote the "right way". And of course, once you're into them for a few large, they owe you