AP – Hackers disrupted the websites of Israel’s stock exchange and national air carrier El Al on Monday in a deepening cyber war launched earlier this month by a group claiming to be Saudis.

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Reuters – China’s $350 billion mutual funds industry may be stumbling due to a sliding stock market and fierce competition but that has not stopped new foreign entrants from paying hefty premiums — double of what they are offering in India, in some cases — to get their toes in.

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AP – The stock market ended up going nowhere in 2011 despite a bumpy ride, and investors continued to hit the exits. For the fifth year running, they withdrew more cash from stock mutual funds than they put in.

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Reuters – The May 2010 “flash crash” was bad for almost everyone involved in the stock market, but for the Securities and Exchange Commission, it was a disaster.

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Positive jobs report fails to lift stocks (AP)

By admin on January 7th, 2012

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2011 file photo, trader David O'Day, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. European stocks rose on Friday as investors set aside concerns about the euro's debt crisis to focus on the impending release of monthly U.S. jobs data, which many hope will confirm a mild recovery in the world's largest economy. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)AP – The stock market offered a reminder Friday that even if the U.S. job market is improving, there’s plenty to worry about elsewhere in the world.


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Market wisdom that withers on a closer look (AP)

By admin on January 7th, 2012

AP – Everybody knows that January predicts the stock market’s direction for the year and that the best time to sell stocks is at their spring peak. And among stock market experts, it’s a sure bet that the market will soar in the year before an election.

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Robert Tuccillo, Jr., a Barclays Capital trader, is surrounded with stock market info monitors as he works during the first day of trading at the New York Stock Market on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012.  The Dow Jones industrial average soared 200 points, or 1.7 percent, to 12,423 in the first minutes of trading Tuesday. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP – The stock market got a big jump on a better year.


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US stocks leap on first day of new year (AP)

By admin on January 3rd, 2012

Robert Tuccillo, Jr., a Barclays Capital trader, is surrounded with stock market info monitors as he works during the first day of trading at the New York Stock Market on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012.  The Dow Jones industrial average soared 200 points, or 1.7 percent, to 12,423 in the first minutes of trading Tuesday. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP – The stock market got a big jump on a better year.


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