Markets
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Risk-parity funds, the next 'better mousetrap'?Jun 01, 2013 11:00 pm - The mutual fund industry is forever trying to build a better mousetrap—with mixed results. Index funds were once a novelty, but pioneers like Vanguard 500 brought about ...
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Merkel tells Hollande reform the price of deficit waiverJun 01, 2013 2:26 pm - German Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed France to pursue an economic overhaul in return for getting more time to cut its budget deficit, a task French President Francois...
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Rising rates: Reason to worry or sign of strength?May 31, 2013 5:48 pm - NEW YORK — The trends sound ominous. Mortgages get more expensive and both big companies and the federal government pay more to borrow. The stock market dips on suspicio...
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Stocks plummet in late trading but end May higherMay 31, 2013 4:22 pm - NEW YORK — Stocks dropped sharply in late trading Friday on Wall Street but still managed to end the month higher. After moving between small losses and gains for most ...
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Stocks rise as lackluster reports ease Fed concernMay 30, 2013 5:31 pm - NEW YORK — The stock market rose Thursday after a pair of lackluster economic reports raised expectations that the Federal Reserve will continue to boost the economy wit...
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Stocks fall; Dow average pulls back from a recordMay 29, 2013 5:01 pm - NEW YORK — Wall Street’s recent passion for high-dividend stocks is fading. The stock market closed lower Wednesday, led by the same industry groups that had the bigges...
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Nasdaq paying $10M to settle Facebook disruptionMay 29, 2013 12:53 pm - WASHINGTON — Nasdaq has agreed to pay a $10 million penalty to settle federal civil charges after regulators said its systems and decisions disrupted Facebook’s public s...
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Stocks jump after home prices, confidence surgeMay 28, 2013 10:27 am - NEW YORK — Stocks surged Tuesday after U.S. home prices rose the most in seven years and consumer confidence reached a five-year high. The Dow Jones industrial average c...
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Valeant to buy Bausch + Lomb for $8.7 billionMay 27, 2013 4:44 pm - Canadian drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals said Monday that it will pay $8.7 billion to buy Bausch + Lomb, one of the world’s best-known makers of contact lenses, in a m...
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Japan’s Nikkei dives as yen gains strengthMay 27, 2013 6:20 am - BANGKOK — Japan’s stock market dived Monday after the yen reversed some of its recent fall against the U.S. dollar. Stocks elsewhere were mixed as investors tried to sor...