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For investors who endured the bruising downturn and were seeing green again in their 401(k)s, Tuesday’s Wall Street tumble was a rude awakening – and a reminder that retirement savings are not always secure.”People are frightened,” said Scott Brewster, a certified financial planner with Brewster Financial Planning in Park Slope, Brooklyn. “Everywhere we turn, there [...]

U.S. stock market futures dropped Thursday as investors showed little appetite for extending the previous session’s modest gains, with earnings from General Motors Co. and the latest figures on weekly jobless claims to come.Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 48 points to 11770 and Standard & Poor’s 500 index futures were down 6.50 [...]

The Toronto stock market was slightly lower mid-afternoon Wednesday while commodity prices backed off as another raft of economic data failed to reassure investors about the state of the U.S. economy.The S&P/TSX composite index was well off early lows, down 39.6 points at 12,712.72 after earlier plunging as much as 184 points. The TSX Venture [...]

The S&P 500 triggered a scary technical signal — a head and shoulders pattern in the chart — leaving investors to wonder if it’s the sign of more selling to come — or just a head fake. The so-called head and shoulders pattern is formed when the chart pattern shows three rallies, with the middle [...]

The humiliation of a credit rating downgrade for the U.S. would exact some psychological damage but is widely viewed as less likely to cause any actual carnage on interest rates. Few fixed-income experts are looking for a major surge in rates even if Standard & Poor’s follows through on its threats to cut the US [...]

  The nation is just days away from the debt ceiling deadline and   no one knows exactly what will happen when the borrowing limit is reached. But even in the worst case scenarios, many experts think investors will flock to U.S. Treasuries.That possibility would mean lower borrowing costs for the government, not the spike in [...]

Stocks are continuing to slide in early trading on worries over the strength of the U.S. economic recovery. The economic data released in the past few days indicates that the U.S. economy is slowing down. Stocks are also falling on worries that rating agencies will downgrade U.S. triple-A credit rating despite a resolution on the [...]

North American stocks wavered in and out of positive territory in early trading Wednesday on hopes of a possible deal to resolve the U.S. debt-ceiling crisis, as well as strong corporate earnings south of the border. The benchmark S&P/TSX composite index was up 6.37 points, or 0.05%, to 13,339.29. shortly after markets opened. While gold [...]

John D. McKinnon reports on the financial crisis from Washington. President Bush’s Rose Garden appearance Saturday morning was meant to provide a reassuring picture of stability — the world’s most powerful leader, standing alongside finance ministers of the seven old-line industrial powers, their flags flapping proudly in the autumn breeze. But as recent financial shocks [...]

US stock markets have suffered their worst week on record following another torrid day of trading despite growing hopes that the government could step in to guarantee bank deposits and lending between financial institutions. The Dow Jones fell 456.3 to 8122.2 leading to a 21pc fall over the week after the index on Thursday suffered [...]