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By Martin VaughanSen. Charles Grassley (R., Iowa) Friday refused a request from Dow Jones to release his personal tax returns.Sen. Grassley, the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has criticized several Obama (Read More)
InformedTrades:
Trading natural gas can be a profitable investment sector if you are a disciplined investor. Hardly a day goes by where you don't read or hear about energy prices in the news. Whether natural gas is slumping due to low demand (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
A bigger-than-expected drop in Dell's earnings and a pullback for global industrials, including Caterpillar, pushed stocks lower Friday, though continued strength for some defensive blue chips like Merck kept the Dow industr (Read More)
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Most U.S. stocks ended the week with losses, but the Dow Jones Industrial Average notched a small rise for the period thanks to gains on Friday in health care stocks and consumer-related shares. Tech shares were the biggest l (Read More)
The Daily Reckoning:
What happened yesterday? The Dow sold off 93 points. Investors had been hesitating. There’s supposed to be a recovery going on. But the latest news is unsettling. Housing and employment numbers are weak. What’s going on? Mayb (Read More)
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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Mexico's economy was on the mend in the third quarter, with a year-over-year contraction coming in less than anticipated by analysts, as well as growth from the previous quarter. Gross domestic pr (Read More)
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The current technical "triple top" on the chart of the IShares DJ Transportation Average ETF (IYT) has an interesting fundamental basis. The ETF formed a double top in mid-October and then began a period of rapid decline fall (Read More)
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average turned positive in the last half hour of trading after a day in the red as investors sought safety by selling stocks in favor of the dollar and Treasurys. (Read More)
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks pared losses late Friday, bringing the Dow Industrial Average into positive territory. "A characteristic of this rally for several months is we've had a hard time selling to the downside, (Read More)
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In the most hilarious cleaning product commercial in recent memory, Method has some fun with Dow's Scrubbing Bubbles. (Read More)
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The stock market’s struggles so far on Friday could lead to the longest losing streak in more than a month. The latest rough patch, however, has come with a lot less prompting from adverse headlines, less intensity, and less (Read More)
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How can a firm that never loses money be so totally wrong?Just this Monday, Goldman Sachs helped to gap the markets higher at the open in low-volume futures trading with the following pronouncement: "Goldman Sachs resumes cov (Read More)
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks tilted lower at Friday's start as investors fled to the relative safety of the dollar and bonds. An earnings disappointment from computer maker Dell Inc. hit the technology sector. The D (Read More)
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Back in 1987, I was working retail for a company that was then a major foreign exchange and precious metals dealer. A non-descript man entered the office with his family. The man, who was wearing a flannel shirt one might u (Read More)
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Dividend Inc. submits: One of the most challenging chart patterns is now upon the Dow Jones Transportation Index (IYT). That chart pattern is the triple top formation. Triple tops can be considered challenging because they im (Read More)
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Marco Hickey submits:In a previous OptionMaestro.com post, I outlined 30 stocks which I wouldn't mind going long at these levels. I wrote about getting long the stocks by using the buy-write option strategy. This is an update (Read More)