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How stock trading has changed since 9/11
In the decade since the Sept. 11 attacks, lower Manhattan has been transformed. Once the physical financial center of the country, the area has become largely an upscale residential neighborhood.
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Nasdaq nears 10-year high; should you be nervous?
The Nasdaq finished within 25 points of its highest level in a decade Friday, February 18, reminding investors of a time many would rather forget: The bursting of the dot-com bubble.
Today, tech is hot again. Facebook — which hasn’t even gone public yet — is worth some $50 billion. Online content company Demand Media rose 33 percent on the day of its initial public offering last month. The Nasdaq composite index closed Friday at 2,834, still only a little more than half its all-time closing high of 5,049 in March 2000. But the index of mostly tech stocks is up 26 percent over the past 12 months. Read More
How overseas inflation could hurt investors
Inflation isn’t hitting your wallet hard, but it is lurking in your stock portfolio.
Core inflation in the U.S. is 0.8 percent, well below the 4 percent rate that starts to worry economists. Though food costs are rising, the overall inflation rate is expected to hold steady due to stagnant real estate prices. Read More
How the new Congress could affect stocks in 2011
Next year will be a year unlike any other for the stock market.
The Republican takeover of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, November 2, means Wall Street will be contending with three situations in 2011 that drive stock prices . . . read more Read More
Parsing the future from corporate earnings reports
This is an embarrassing time to be a corporate analyst. Seventy-five percent of the 151 companies in the Standard and Poor’s 500 index that have announced third quarter earnings so far have beaten analyst predictions of their earnings per share.
That could mean one of two things: either analysts are bad at their jobs, or corporate America is finding ways to make money that aren’t easy . . . read more Read More
In Last Quarter of Year, a Focus on What’s Working
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a question as old as investing itself: will good performance last?
The Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index are both up more than 5 percent this year, and barring something dramatic will finish in the black. Much of the gains can be attributed to two . . . read more Read More
