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“The market will look for signal from Europes leaders that things are getting better. There’s a chance the market will stabilize next week,” said Terry Morris, senior equity manager at National Penn Investors Trust Company. Volatility: Will it continue? Barron’s Mike Santoli discusses extreme swings in trading and the likelihood that it will continue in [...]

Investors looking for reasons  for optimism after the worst stock-market sell-off since the 2008 financial crisis probably won’t find it in Friday’s July jobs report.Economists forecast that employers added only 90,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.2 percent, according to a survey by FactSet. That would mark an improvement [...]

US stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open on Wall Street on Friday following a traumatic day across global stock markets as investors sold off over fears the European debt crisis was spreading to Spain and Italy and economic data out of the US pointed to a slowdown in growth in the world’s [...]

513 points plunged today of Dow Jones industrial amid renewed worries about a possible double-dip recession, the U.S. deficit and Europe’s continuing debt problems.The S&P 500 fell 60 points to 1,200. The Nasdaq declined 137 points to 2,556.It was the worst day for the market since the October 2008 when stocks sank as widening mortgage [...]

Stocks ended on a sour note Friday, wrapping up a fifth straight week of losses after unexpectedly tepid growth in the number of new jobs heightened concerns the economic rebound is losing steam.U.S. payrolls grew just 54,000 last month, the smallest amount in eight months. The results were well below projections – even after analysts lowered [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Two years after the last recession ended, Wall Street is showing rising fear that the U.S. economy could be headed for a new downturn.Stock prices plummeted in the U.S. and Europe on Tuesday, driving the Dow Jones industrial average to its lowest level since March and to its longest losing streak — eight straight sessions [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]