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Jamie Hammond

Jamie Hammond

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Jamie Hammond is vice president and editor in chief of AOL Money & Finance's sites including DailyFinance, WalletPop, BloggingStocks, AOL Small Business and Luxist. Jamie has spent most of his career in online financial media, from Silicon Valley startups to Washingtonpost.com where he served as Business & Technology Editor.

Michael Mercurio

Michael Mercurio

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Managing Editor

Michael Mercurio is managing editor of DailyFinance. He spent more than 28 years at McGraw-Hill, mostly at BusinessWeek (13 at the magazine and 12 at BW Online), and the last three at Standard & Poor's as managing editor for content in the Credit Market Services unit.

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Nikhil Hutheesing

Nikhil Hutheesing

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Assistant Managing Editor

Nikhil Hutheesing is an assistant managing editor at DailyFinance, overseeing investing and tech coverage. He is a 17-year veteran of Forbes magazine and Forbes.com, where he covered business strategies, investing, and tech and helped develop and run the Forbes Newsletter Group. He was also the editor of top-ranked investing newsletter Forbes Wireless Stock Watch. Nikhil, who earlier spent four years in banking on Wall Street and briefly did financial planning at Viacom, has appeared on Fox News, MSNBC and CBS' "The Early Show." Nikhil won the 1998 South Asian Journalist Association's Journalism Award for Outstanding Story for his Forbes article, "Faster, Cheaper, Better-Forever."

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Latif Lewis

Latif Lewis

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Business News Editor

Latif Lewis is business news editor of DailyFinance. Before joining AOL in 2005, Lewis served as the editor of Blackenterprise.com where she determined the scope and nature of all online news content and managed a team of seasoned journalists. She has also served as a home page producer/editor for USAToday.com.

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Michael Rainey

Michael Rainey

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Deputy Managing Editor

Michael Rainey is an assistant managing editor at DailyFinance, overseeing economics and finance coverage. A graduate of the Wharton School, he previously edited DailyFinance's sister site BloggingStocks, taught classes in social theory at Hunter College, and served as Managing Editor at Distance Learning, Inc. In addition to his duties at DailyFinance, he is currently a technology fellow and PhD candidate at City University of New York.

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Dan Burrows

Dan Burrows

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Senior Writer

Dan Burrows is a senior writer for DailyFinance. He spent five years at Dow Jones. Most recently he covered investing, markets, tech stocks and the economy at SmartMoney.com. Prior to that he was a reporter at MarketWatch.com. He also covered retail and manufacturing at Women's Wear Daily for three years. In his career, he's had writing stints at Time Inc.'s FYI and Spy magazines, and has freelanced for Esquire and Maxim, among other publications.

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Matthew Scott is a markets and investing writer for DailyFinance. He spent 13 years covering investment and business news as managing editor and personal finance editor of Black Enterprise magazine. He has written columns for the AOL Black Voices Money Talks blog and recently covered corporate finance, real estate, and commodities as online reporter for Financial Week. He has won or shared awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, American Business Media, the National Association of Black Journalists and Folio Awards for Editorial Excellence.

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Bruce Watson is a features writer for DailyFinance, focusing on the political and cultural effects of economic events. A contributor to Military Lessons of the Persian Gulf War, A Chronology of the Cold War at Sea, the Journal of American Philosophy, A Cafe in Space, and the forthcoming Peanut Butter, Gooseberries, and Latkes! He has also worked as a research assistant in the British House of Commons and at the United States Naval Institute.

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Vishesh Kumar

Vishesh Kumar

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Financial Writer

Vishesh Kumar, previously a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal, has joined DailyFinance, where he will be focusing on investing, particularly in tech and telecom. Vishesh has also been on the staff of TheStreet.com, where he produced hundred of videos and also served as a writer; his work has appeared widely in many other major publications. His TV appearances include CNBC and ABC's "Good Morning America," and he has been a radio guest on National Public Radio and "The Brian Lehrer Show."

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CITIGROUP INC
4.74+0.03
+0.64%
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BAC
BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
12.98+0.36
+2.85%
163.04M
SPY
SPDR S&P; 500 Trust
125.39+0.79
+0.63%
94.94M
EEM
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund
46.50+0.67
+1.47%
59.67M

% Gainers

PBI-
PITNEY BOWES INC
397.00 +71.95
+22.14%
195.00
MPG
MPG OFFICE TR INC
2.70 +0.35
+14.89%
1.77M
MCP
MOLYCORP INC DEL
44.43 +5.18
+13.20%
9.11M
LAD
LITHIA MTRS INC
14.01 +1.41
+11.19%
472,161.00

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CPY
CPI CORP
22.49-7.98
-26.19%
1.34M
ORN
ORION MARINE GROUP INC
11.30-3.44
-23.34%
4.23M
JFT
KEYnotes First Trust Enhanced 130/30 Large Cap Index ETN
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105.00
PRO
PROS HOLDINGS INC
11.82-1.02
-7.94%
159,996.00
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