Another dose of anguish about the global economic recovery sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average to the first close below 12000 since mid-March, capping the blue-chip index's longest weekly slump since 2002.
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Just days after a fractious OPEC meeting, the first signs emerged that Saudi Arabia was planning on making good on its vow to boost oil output on its own, sending crude futures tumbling.
Lower U.S. equities trading volume and falling stock prices are hitting Wall Street's equity trading desks, prompting talk among traders in recent weeks about layoffs later this year if the situation doesn't improve.
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Chinese bank stocks dropped Thursday, weighing on the Shanghai and Hong Kong markets, while Japanese blue chips managed to finish slightly higher despite another big decline for Nintendo.
China's Citic Securities Co. and France's Credit Agricole SA have decided to take it slow in their relationship as more than a year of talks to create a global partnership has resulted in a scaled-down deal.
Two months after its IPO, Zipcar's stock price had stalled. Today, though, the car-sharing company got a rocket in its transmission courtesy of some new Wall Street friends.
Investors are apparently eager for a piece of Pandora. But one analyst says don't touch this IPO with a 10-foot pole.
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U.S.-listed China stocks are taking a beating. But in the rush to judgment, investors risk confusing the good with the bad and the ugly.
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Goldman Sachs Group bond trader Fabrice Tourre on Friday lost his bid to dismiss a civil securities-fraud lawsuit by the Securities and Exchange Commission over the marketing and sale of a complex financial instrument tied to subprime mortgages.
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