Stock Market News - Financial News - Wall Street Journal

More
- BigCharts
- Virtual Stock Exchange
- WSJ Asia
- WSJ Europe
- WSJ Portuguese
- WSJ Spanish
- WSJ Chinese
- WSJ Japanese
- WSJ Radio
- Financial News
- WSJ Lifestyle Brands
- WSJwine

Friday, February 18, 2011 As of 6:13 PM EST
- |
The Wall Street Journal Markets
- Welcome, Logout
U.S. Edition Home
↓ More
WSJ.com is available in the following editions and languages:

U.S.

Asia

India

China

Japan

Europe

Americas

en Español

em Português

Register for FREE

Register for FREE

Thank you for registering.

We sent an email to:

Please click on the link inside the email to complete your registration

Please register to gain free access to WSJ tools.

An account already exists for the email address entered.

Forgot your username or password?

This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Please try again later.

The username entered is already associated with
another account. Please enter a different username

The email address you have entered is already in use.
Please re-enter the email address.

First Name

Last Name

Email (your email address will be your login)

Confirm Email

Create a Password

Confirm Password

Company Size (Optional)

From time to time, we will send you e-mail announcements on new features and special offers from The Wall Street Journal Online.

Create a profile for me in the Journal Community

Why Register?

Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to:

Setup and manage your portfolio

Personalize your own news page

Receive and manage newsletters

Login/Register to set your edition
Log In

Log In

Login

Password

Log in
Your login is either a username or an email address.
Keep me logged in. Forgot your password?

Share articles and comments with your friends
Login with Facebook
What's This?

You can connect your Facebook profile with WSJ.com to share articles, comments, and other activity with your friends.

World » More

World » More

Loading…
U.S. » More

U.S. » More

Loading…
New York » More

New York » More

Loading…
Business » More

Business » More

Loading…
Markets » More

Markets » More

Loading…
Tech » More

Tech » More

Loading…
Personal Finance » More

Personal Finance » More

Loading…
Life & Culture » More

Life & Culture » More

Loading…
Opinion » More

Opinion » More

Loading…
Careers » More

Careers » More

Loading…
Real Estate » More

Real Estate » More

Loading…
Small Business » More

Small Business » More

Loading…

Why Companies Are Hoarding Cash
Politicians have been carping about the more than $2 trillion in cash sitting idle in corporate coffers. But much of it isn't in the U.S.; it is abroad. And it isn't likely to come back home unless U.S. tax laws change.

Subscriber Content Read Preview

CME, Deutsche Börse Explored Tie-Up
CME Group and Deutsche Börse discussed merging in late 2007 but the exchange giants couldn't agree on a price. Speculation is swirling that CME may try to break up the German company's $10 billion acquisition of NYSE Euronext.
Banks Try Fees for Once-Free Services
The nation's largest banks are testing how much their customers are willing to pay for checking-account services that used to be free.

Latest Headlines

Subscriber Content Read Preview

Irish Banks Behind ECB Lending Surge
An unusual surge in ECB overnight lending last week was connected to Ireland's effort to wind down nationalized lenders Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society, a person familiar with the matter said.
Subscriber Content Read Preview

Gulf Stock Markets Slide
Stock markets in the Persian Gulf region tumbled, extending some sharp recent losses, amid mounting concerns that fast-spreading regional unrest may derail broader economic recovery.
Subscriber Content Read Preview

National Bank of Greece Caps Alpha Bid
National Bank of Greece, the country's largest bank by assets, may be ready to slightly sweeten the bid in its friendly takeover of Alpha Bank, but isn't prepared to double the premium that Alpha is demanding, a senior person familiar with the matter said.
Stocks Close at 2½-Year High
The Dow industrials extended their winning streak to a third consecutive week, reaching their highest close since June 2008.
Subscriber Content Read Preview

Panel Proposes Responses to 'Flash Crash'
A joint-advisory committee investigating the May 6 "flash crash" proposed a series of regulatory responses aimed at preventing a repeat of the market meltdown.
Subscriber Content Read Preview

Rating Firms Again Disagree on RMBS Deal
An unusual public squabble among three credit-rating firms has erupted over a residential mortgage-backed security from Redwood Trust's RWT Holdings.
- Earlier: 'Ratings Shopping' Lives
Subscriber Content Read Preview

Euro Gains on Dollar
Subscriber Content Read Preview

Shanghai's Winning Streak Ends at Six
Subscriber Content Read Preview

Treasurys Post Weekly Gain
Subscriber Content Read Preview

Silver Climbs Near 31-Year High
Bernanke Defends U.S. Policies
Subscriber Content Read Preview

BATS Seals Chi-X Deal
Subscriber Content Read Preview

Options Traders Bet on Cooling Tyco
Subscriber Content Read Preview

HCA's IPO Target: Up to $30 a Share

Exchange

Asian Economies: All Grown-Up
Decoupling is (finally) here! At least in terms of core inflation, according to HSBC, which is rising quickly alongside commodity prices.
Munch Away, Singapore Traders - For Now
Good news for Singapore traders - there's still time for that lunch date you never got to have.
Citi's South-South Push
On Tap Friday: Singapore Budget, G20 Finance Ministers Meet
See All

RSS Feed

MarketBeat

An inside look at the markets

S&P; 500, Germany’s Dax, Back in the Same Groove (Up!)
On Jan 11, German and U.S. stocks were heading in opposite directions. The Standard & Poor's-500 index had gained 1%, while Germany's DAX had dropped 0.9%.
Data Points: U.S. Markets
This week, the Dow Industrials rose 117.99 points, or 0.96% to 12391.25, the Nasdaq Composite gained 24.51 points, or 0.87% to 2833.95 and the S&P; 500 added 13.86 points, or 1.04% to 1343.01.
MarketBeat Handicaps the Daytona 500: Look for Tony Stewart!
Obama Bounce?: Intel now a Candidate
More MarketBeat

RSS Feed

Heard on the Street

Subscriber Content Read Preview

G-20 Meeting Flies Under Market Radar
Good news: The likelihood of major market turbulence following the Paris G-20 meeting seems limited. The bad news is the reason: markets have such low expectations that it will be difficult to disappoint them.
Subscriber Content Read Preview

Private Equity Shows Surprising Resilience
Back in 2008, Boston Consulting Group predicted the majority of private- equity-owned companies would default on their debt within two to three years. That now looks unlikely.
Subscriber Content Read Preview

Illinois Pension Plans Should Go Dutch
Subscriber Content Read Preview

Anglo and Lafarge No Longer Stuck in Cement
Subscriber Content Read Preview

Governance Logjam At Japan Inc.

Weekend Investor

Doctor, Heal Thy Billing System
A growing number of health-care charges are outright wrong—and left untended, they could wreck your credit score. Here's how to fight back.
- Billing Complexities Incur Costs
Same-Sex Couples and The Marriage Penalty
Buying Your Way Into College

Are the Fed’s easy-money policies causing inflation and asset bubbles abroad?

View Results »

Stocks

Stocks Close at 2½-Year High
The Dow industrials extended their winning streak to a third consecutive week, reaching their highest close since June 2008.
Subscriber Content Read Preview

Shanghai's Winning Streak Ends at Six
Subscriber Content Read Preview

Options Traders Bet on Cooling Tyco

Bonds

Banks Find Loophole on Capital Rule
Some foreign banks are moving to restructure their U.S. operations to avoid one of the most-burdensome requirements of the new Dodd-Frank law.
Subscriber Content Read Preview

Rating Firms Again Disagree on RMBS Deal
Subscriber Content Read Preview

Samurai Bonds in Spotlight

Commodities

Subscriber Content Read Preview

Silver Climbs Near 31-Year High
The gray metal settled at $32.2980 a troy ounce, its strongest close since March 1980.
Subscriber Content Read Preview

Nymex Oil Prices Firm
Subscriber Content Read Preview

Gold Futures Stabilizes

Currencies

Subscriber Content Read Preview

Euro Gains on Dollar
The euro rallied broadly after remarks from a European Central Bank member revived expectations of higher interest rates.
Subscriber Content Read Preview

For Some, Currency Hedging Is No Gain
Subscriber Content Read Preview

India, Brazil to Press China on Yuan

Investing

Why Companies Are Hoarding Cash
Politicians have been carping about the more than $2 trillion in cash sitting idle in corporate coffers. But much of it isn't in the U.S.; it is abroad. And it isn't likely to come back home unless U.S. tax laws change.

World Markets

Subscriber Content Read Preview

Shanghai's Winning Streak Ends at Six
Chinese stocks fell ahead of reports that the central bank would raise the reserve-requirement ratio for banks. It did just that after the market closed.

Deals

Subscriber Content Read Preview

CME, Deutsche Börse Explored Tie-Up
CME Group and Deutsche Börse discussed merging in late 2007 but the exchange giants couldn't agree on a price. Speculation is swirling that CME may try to break up the German company's $10 billion acquisition of NYSE Euronext.
Subscriber Content Read Preview

BATS Seals Chi-X Deal
Subscriber Content Read Preview

A Have and Have-Not Venture World

MarketWatch

Emerging Markets Report: Mideast markets drop; Libyan deaths rise
Middle Eastern stock markets slumped on Sunday as more than 150 people are reported dead in Libya.
Stocks to Watch: Stocks in focus Tuesday: Wal-Mart, H-P
Obama has lost control of agenda: Soros
Go to MarketWatch.com

RSS Feed

Barron's

The King of Bonds
Brilliant and controversial, bond-fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach has outperformed nearly all his rivals, first at TCW, which fired him, and later at DoubleLine Capital, which he founded.
New Leaders, Fresh Advice: 2011 Top 1,000 Advisors
Still a Big Fan of Small-Caps
Go to Barrons.com

RSS Feed

Offers

Footnotes

Data is provided for information purposes only and is not intended for trading purposes. Thomson Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delay in the content, or for any action taken in reliance on any content. The RIC or Reuters Instrument Code set has been developed and maintained by Thomson Reuters and is the intellectual property of Thomson Reuters.

Indexes: Dow Jones U.S. and international indexes are updated in real-time. Source: Dow Jones & Co.

Other U.S. indexes are updated in real-time, except for the following delayed 15 minutes: PHLX, Russell.

Other international indexes are updated in real-time, except for the following delayed 15 minutes: FTSE, STOXX; delayed 20 minutes: Nikkei. Source: Thomson Reuters.

Currencies: Currencies quotes are updated in real-time. Source: Thomson Reuters.

Bonds: Treasury quotes on this page are updated in real-time between 2:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. ET; change values are calculated based on price at 5 p.m. on the prior day. Charts update every 30 minutes between 9:35 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Source: Thomson Reuters.

Futures: Futures quotes are delayed 10 minutes. Quotes include open auction and electronic trading. Quotes are contracts with highest open interest. Crude Oil is front-month contract. "Change" values may reset to zero during non-trading hours. "Change" values are calculated based on the settlement price from the prior day's open auction session until electronic trading begins for the next trading day, after 6:00 p.m. ET for contracts traded on Globex. Source: Thomson Reuters.
Charts on this page include open auction prices only. Interactive charts on this page: crude oil is front month contract; all other futures are contract month with the highest open interest.

Click on futures contract name for full quotes, settle prices and charts.

Market Data Center

* at close
Source: Dow Jones, Reuters

MARKET NEWS

How to Read this Chart

High
Current price, up from close
Price at prior day's close
Current price, down from close
Low

Quotes & Research

Enter a company name, or up to 10 symbols

Enter a company name, or up to 10 symbols
- Subscribe or Login to use Price & Volume Alerts
- Price & Volume Alerts

Markets Video

Investment Banking Scorecard
The Wall Street Journal and Dealogic have created a new, comprehensive scorecard for the investment banking industry. The new interactive graphic keeps a running tally of investment-banking revenues by product, region, and bank.

Follow Markets News

Journal Community

close window

Hello

Your question to the Journal Community Your comments on articles will show your real name and not a username.Why?

Create a Journal Community profile to avoid this message in the future. (As a member you agree to use your real name when participating in the Journal Community)