For the past six weeks, the U.S. stock rally has confounded skeptics and demoralized bears. Wednesday, the Standard Poor's 500-stock index gave doubters more reason for pause.
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The tie-up agreement between NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Börse AG would cost a rival bidder $337 million to break up, according to documents filed with regulators Wednesday.
Exchange-traded fund companies generally sharpened their aim in terms of matching market returns last year, but many ETFs still missed by wide margins, according to Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.
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The dollar weakened broadly, as initial optimism from encouraging U.S. data was overshadowed by geopolitical jitters that favored such safe harbors as the Swiss franc.
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The Justice Department called for stiffer punishment for insider-trading suspects, saying the complexity of new schemes like the recent cases of alleged wrongdoing at "expert networking" firms show a need for longer prison sentences.
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Treasurys fell as a 14.6% surge in U.S. housing starts and a more upbeat assessment on the economy by the Federal Reserve sapped demand for safe assets.
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China said it will allow yuan foreign-exchange options to be traded domestically starting in April, a long-awaited move that is part of Beijing's push to build a more sophisticated currency regime.
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Harbinger Capital Partners paid $60 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that it improperly interfered in a 2006 takeover battle and received nonpublic information about a rival's bid.
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Federal prosecutors could seek to play more than 170 secretly recorded conversations as part of their insider-trading case against Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam.
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Earnings from Dr. Pepper Snapple, J.M. Smucker and Nordstrom are all due to report. In economics, all eyes will be on the consumer price index and weekly jobs claims.
Chipmaker Nvidia reported adjusted EPS of 23 cents, better than the 16 cents that were expected. Revenue was a little bit light at $886.4 million compared to the $892.2 million that analysts had expected.
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Every so often, the gods smile on oil refiners. The breakdown in the relationship between West Texas Intermediate and Brent crudes represents an extra-toothy grin.
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Buyout king or agitator? Nelson Peltz has adapted his approach to different environments. Investors in Family Dollar Stores should make sure they know which hat he's wearing.
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China said it will stop publishing its index of national property prices as part of a broader revision, scrapping a set of data whose accuracy was widely questioned but which also had become a rallying point for public anger over rapidly rising housing prices.
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For the past six weeks, the U.S. stock rally has confounded skeptics and demoralized bears. Wednesday, the Standard Poor's 500-stock index gave doubters more reason for pause.
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Fed officials were slightly more optimistic about the U.S. economic outlook, but not enough to call an early end to their bond-buying program, minutes from the January meeting showed.
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With few new gold strikes around the world that can be turned into profitable mines, South Africa's gold miners are planning to dig deeper than ever before to get access to rich veins.
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The dollar weakened broadly, as initial optimism from encouraging U.S. data was overshadowed by geopolitical jitters that favored such safe harbors as the Swiss franc.
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The co-author of 1999's "Dow 36,000"—which called for stocks to triple in as little as five years—is now warning investors to protect themselves against another round of financial disasters. Should you care?
Borders Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and said it plans to close about 30% of its stores.
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Qantas Airways posts sharp rise in first-half profit and expects a materially stronger fiscal-year result as global aviation markets improve.
The tech titan tops our global ranking for the second straight year, followed by Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway.
Financial firms are offering more free consultations. Are they worth it?
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Conventional wisdom says yes, but a growing number of advisers say no -- at least for now.
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