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The market was reminded of the economy’s ongoing problems when the Conference Board, a business-backed research group, said its Consumer Confidence Index plunged to 64.5 in March from a revised 76.4 in February. The reading — a five-year low...

Along with its global peers, indicating a strong comeback trail, the domestic benchmark market index gained 928.09 points, the second biggest single day point gain for Sensex. Surprisingly, realty sector led the rally with a gain of 9.48 per cent ...

In Pepperell, which faces unprecedented fiscal difficulties this spring, Town Administrator Robert Hanson said the drop in new housing is a bad sign in the immediate short term, because it means the town cannot raise its levy capacity by much for ...

Los Angles, CA – Investors who know how and where to look for a pre-foreclosure home have the advantage of offering an affordable purchase price no matter how low it is. The auction method of marketing was chosen by the seller to liquidate all the...

John D’Agostino (born November 3, 1982) is an American professional poker player from Seymour, Connecticut. He placed 5th in the second season World Poker Tour (WPT) PokerStars Caribbean Poker Adventure event, winning $99,450. At the 2004 Un...

It doesn’t make a whole lot of intuitive sense, on its face. The investment banks are up to their eyeballs in structured products and quantitative strategies, while the big global universal banks are heavily diversified among different pr...

Yesterday’s surprisingly bad news out of Citibank (C) and then UBS (UBS) sent us back to the research archives looking for information about the quality of Banks earnings. As we noted last week, much of the Brokers’ gains were fictit...

The rally that began in the U.S. Monday continued in Asia Tuesday, with some indices reaching record levels. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index (+3.9%) outpaced the rest of the indices and finished at a record close. Korea’s Kospi Composite (...

TD Bank Financial Group has agreed to acquire Commerce Bancorp in a 75% stock and 25% cash deal valued at US$8.5 billion. Commerce shareholders stand to receive 0.4142 shares of TD Bank common stock and $10.50 in cash, for each share of Commerce. ...

Following up on last week’s hard-to-believe Bear Stearns/Buffett story, I happened across an interesting blog the other day: News Visuals. Their methodology uses the engine from intellectspace.com to look at the inter-relationships between t...