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• First Week of 2009 U.S. Trading Proves Disappointing, Euro Weathering Global Financial Storm

  While the year started off with investors being cautiously optimistic that better times may be in sight, the first full trading week of 2009 was disappointing and revealed that, although it ...

• Investors Cautiously Optimistic as First Trading Week of 2009 Kicks Off

  The first trading day of 2009 on Wall Street proved to be somewhat encouraging, with advances across the board resulting in the Dow Jones industrial average rising 2.9 percent, the Nasdaq ...

• Scripophily: An Intriguing Hobby

  Scripophily is a specialized field of numismatics (the study and collection of currency) which focuses on the study and collection of old bonds and stocks. What makes scripophily ...

• Overview of American Stock Exchange History

  Stock exchanges all over the world continue to undergo changes in an effort to keep up with rapidly advancing technology. The stock markets of today bear little resemblance to the first ...

• Investors Anxious for “Big Three” Decision in Last Full Week of 2008 Trading

  With Monday marking the start of the last full week of trading for 2008, U.S. stock market investors are likely to be focusing their attention on developments regarding Detroit’s Big Three ...

• U.S. Markets Respond Positively to Proposed Infrastructure Projects

  With a second straight day of significant gains on U.S. stock markets, growing numbers of investors are becoming more confident that the worst is past for stocks. News of President-elect ...

• Will U.S. Investors Continue To Shrug Off Flow Of Bad News?

  Friday’s U.S. stock market gains fueled hopes that the market may finally be bottoming out. While analysts are divided as to whether this is so, it certainly appears that investors are ...

• Fed to Take Further Steps to Rescue Sinking Housing Markets

  U.S. stocks took another tumble on Thursday with the major indexes each sliding more than 2.5 percent after a day of gains and losses. Investors have a host of concerns that are driving ...

• Big Three Bailout, Weak Economic News Sets Markets See-Sawing But Closing on a High

  With a stream of bad news, tempered by tidbits of good news, flowing to stock markets and resulting in volatile intraday trading, U.S. stocks nevertheless closed slightly higher on ...

• Likelihood of Big Three Bailout Boosts U.S. Markets

  Confirming the general view that U.S. stock markets will continue to be volatile for some time yet, Tuesday saw a rally on Wall Street with the Dow Jones industrial average gaining 3.3 ...

• Markets Take a Tumble as NBER Confirms U.S. in Recession

  Any hopes for a continued U.S. stock market rally were dashed on Monday when the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced that the nation is officially in a recession. Markets ...

• Investors Hope for Continued U.S. Market Rally; British Government Takes Majority Stake in RBS

  With Black Friday shopping turning out more lucrative than the majority of analysts, investors and retailers had anticipated in the current economic downturn, Wall Street players are facing ...