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• Financial Reform, BP Remain Hot Topics on Wall Street

  As a new week starts, with the month of June already half-way through, analysts believe that US markets will face some tough challenges as investors remain cautious about the state of the ...

• Nervous Market Responds to BP Dividend Cut

  Following the pattern of the previous two days, Wall Street experienced a late in the day decline on Wednesday with the Dow Jones industrial average falling 40.73 points, the Standard & ...

• Euro Strain Impacts US Markets

  In the not too distant past the euro was being hailed as the "new dollar" as it continued to gain ground as the currency of choice on international markets. However, with the economic ...

• FCIC Probes CRA Role in Financial Crisis

  While a number of indicators suggest that the US economy is on the road to recovery, albeit a long and rocky road, the probe into what caused the financial crisis in the fist place ...

• United/Continental Merger Hits Snag at Senate

  With a merger being agreed upon by the relevant management teams and board members of Continental and United airlines, and varying opinions being aired as to possible benefits or ...

• Darwinomics: Competition vs Cooperation

  Even those who have not studied the works of Charles Darwin, readily equate the basic principle of 'survival of the fittest', otherwise known as the 'principle of natural selection', with ...

• Wal-Mart Results Reveal Shaky Consumer Confidence

  While the state of the economy of a number of European Union countries continues to be a cause for concern, and the Euro continues to flounder, US stock market players will no doubt be ...

• FINRA Proposes New Measures to Curb Market Volatility

  The dramatic 'flash crash' on Wall Street on May 6 served as a wake-up call to regulators that the growing trend of automated high-speed trading calls for updated regulations in order to ...

• The Perils of High-Speed Trading

  While talk of a stock exchange generally brings to mind the vibrant organized chaos of dealers on the floor shouting buy and sell instructions - scoring spectacularly, or failing dismally, ...

• United-Continental Merger Raises Fare-Price Concerns

  With any merger between two key players within an economic sector there are bound to be objections from many quarters, as well as concerns regarding competition, or rather lack thereof, and ...

• The Fat-Finger Phenomenon

  The gut-wrenching intraday drop of 998.5 points in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Thursday last week has raised speculation that it was due to a so-called 'fat-finger' incident in which a ...

• Power of Credit Rating Agencies Questioned

  Following the downgrading of Greece's credit rating to junk earlier this week, as well as the downgrading of both Spain and Portugal, with speculation that Portugal is in the firing line for ...