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• Pension Plans/Retirement Funds Hard Hit By Economic Crisis

  While world leaders gather in a series of meetings to discuss strategies to deal with the current global economic crisis, as well as looking into co-operative measures of preventing a repeat ...

• Markets Remain Volatile as World Leaders Seek Solutions to Global Financial Crisis

  Many investors, brokers, analysts and others who make a living from the U.S. stock markets have all but given up trying to understand why markets are remaining as volatile as they are and ...

• Corporate Results Drag Market Down, World Financial Crisis Summit May Restore Hope

  While U.S. credit markets seem to be loosening up a little, investors have no respite from anxiety as the trickle of third quarter corporate results currently being released seems to be ...

• Third Quarter Corporate Earnings and Possible Additional Federal Reserve Intervention Affect See-Sawing Market

  While acknowledging that the U.S. market is likely to remain volatile for some time, many are of the opinion that the market’s devastating downward slide may be nearing an end. However, the ...

• Talk of Additional Stimulus Package to Aid U.S. Economy Recovery Boosts Markets

  U.S. stocks rallied on Monday morning as investors responded to signs that the credit market is improving. Remarks by Federal Reserve chief, Ben Bernanke, that Congress should look into ...

• Fearful Stock Market Traders Keep Eye on VIX

  After a number of gut-wrenching free falls and sharp reversals in the stock market in recent weeks, traders are hoping that tales of impending doom won’t become a reality. A lot of them are ...

• Investor Confidence Knocked By Volatile Market – and Vice Versa

  Stock markets in the U.S. opened low on Thursday, with traders apprehensive as to what surprises another trading day may hold. Adding weight to the terms "yo-yoing", "see-sawing" and ...

• Disappointing Commerce Department and Federal Reserve Reports Have Negative Impact On Markets

  Wednesday’s performance on U.S. stock markets, and global markets for that matter, is likely to have squashed any feelings of optimism that Monday’s market rally may have brought about. The ...

• Markets Remain Apprehensive as U.S. Bailout Plan Rolls Out

  Following the euphoria of Monday, U.S. markets drew back a little on Tuesday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Standard & Poor’s 500 and the Nasdaq composite index all ending the ...

• Dramatic Market Rebound a Welcome Start to the Week as Bailout Strategies Are Fine-Tuned

  No doubt driven by the news that governments around the world are taking unprecedented action to bolster the financial sector, Monday saw Wall Street record its most phenomenal bounce back ...

• E.U. Agrees on Financial Crisis Plan of Action – Investors Advised Not to Panic-Sell

  While many investors and analysts agree that it is unlikely that the level of anxiety being experienced by global stock markets will decrease in the upcoming week, there are those who ...

• Is Downward Spiral Heading for U.S. Stock Market Timeout?

  Thursday marked the anniversary of the stock market peak experienced in October 2007, and illustrating how volatile and unpredictable stock market trading has become, the Dow Jones ...