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U.S. stocks rose Wednesday, with the S&P 500 extending record gains into a fifth session, after companies including Electronic Arts Inc. projected earnings that beat estimates.A day after closing above 15,000 for the first time, The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) added 15.99 points to 15,072.19, with 18 of its 30 components advancing.In position to close at a fifth consecutive record, the S&P 500 index (SPX) gained 4.27 points to 1,630.23.Industrials and technology fed sector gains, while utilities and consumer staples led losses among the S&P 500's 10 major industry groups.Electronic Arts (EA) rallied 15% and Whole Foods Market Inc. (WFM) jumped 10% after the upscale grocer raised its full-year profit forecast.The Nasdaq Composite (RIXF) advanced 14.15 points to 3,410.75.For every two stocks on the decline, three rose on the New York Stock Exchange, where 342 million shares traded as of 1:40 p.m.Composite volume neared 2.1 billion.Equities began the session lower, but the recent t...
Back in May, as the euro zone veered deeper into crisis, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman penned one of his gloomiest columns about the single currency, a ...
The European Central Bank this morning kept rates on hold at 0.75 percent and did not launch any new policies as the European economy continues to suffer under the w...
Qatar agreed on Monday to invest as much as 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) in Italian companies, aiding efforts by Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti to breathe life...
Under pressure to prevent a catastrophic breakup of their single currency, euro zone leaders agreed on Friday to let their rescue fund inject aid directly into stric...
The rich and powerful were divided at their annual huddle on Wednesday over Barack Obama's threat to raise their taxes, with some it could hurt growth, but others ar...
The euro slid and European stock markets dived on Monday as investors judged that last week's pact to bind EU economies closer together would fail to quell its finan...
Former White House Economic Advisor Todd Buchholz on the problems with Greece’s debt deal and its impact on the U.S. economy.
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Europe is trying to move forcibly to fix its debt crisis, reports Dow Jones Newswires, the sister company to FOX Business."I...
The Motley Fool director David Kuo weighs in on the state of the European economy.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Fallout from the euro zone debt crisis and U.S. fiscal problems mean developed economies are more likely to contract than recover in coming ...
Newedge Senior Director Larry McDonald on the potential impact of a Greek default on the European, global economy.
U.S. stocks inched higher on Wednesday as investors took a break after a string of record-setting gains.The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) rose 11 points to 15,0...
U.S. stocks stalled early Wednesday as investors took a break after a string of record-setting gains.The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) fell 12 points to 15,044 ...
U.S. stocks drifted lower at the open Wednesday as investors took a break after a string of record-setting gains.The Dow Jones Industrial Average(DJI) fell 31 points...
In E.B. White's 1952 children's novel "Charlotte's Web," Charlotte the spider explains to Wilbur the pig that life on the farm is not what it appears to be.Homer Zuc...
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Less than nine months ago, credible investors around the world were bracing for a calamitous breakup of the debt-ridden eurozone that would send the global economy i...
Political instability in emerging markets, led by China, will be on of the biggest risks for markets in 2013, Ian Bremmer, president of political risk firm Eurasia G...
