The Stock Market: The Stock Market Crash in the Stock Market

Ten tips to help you get started on the right foot investing in the stock market…
Educate yourself about the market ~
Do your homework and learn all you can before you start deciding where to invest your hard-earned money. Look at the history of the stocks you’re considering and learn to read a prospectus.

Treasury planning a program to attract private capital alongside public capital to financial institutions.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Friday that the U.S. government was working on a plan to buy stock in financial institutions by using part of the $700 billion authorized by Congress to stabilize the financial system.
“We are [...]

The troubled automaker issues a statement saying that it is not considering bankruptcy, after its shares sank 31% in Thursday trading.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — General Motors is not considering bankruptcy, the company said in a prepared statement Friday. The announcement was in response to the automaker’s precipitous stock price decline the previous day, a spokesman [...]

General Motors insisted yesterday that bankruptcy was not an option, despite facing what it described as “unprecedented challenges”.
Fears have been growing that the biggest US carmakers, GM and Ford, are close to calamity as the crisis in the financial markets has bled into the real economy.
Shares in the pair were back under pressure in early [...]

Markets to worsen before stocks hit rock bottom

So, in these uncertain times, what to do about your stock portfolio?
Some of us might be tempted by the bargains emerging in the incredible shrinking stock market. But we’re waiting to exhale.
Since last fall, when the looming global credit crisis first began to command the attention of the [...]

TORONTO (Reuters) - The main index of the Toronto Stock Exchange plunged almost 5 percent on Thursday as mounting gloom over the state of the economy and the U.S. financial sector sent investors fleeing the market in a broad rout.
The financial sector was the biggest drag on the benchmark, sliding 7.74 percent. The energy and [...]

Sensex nose dives below 14,500, ends 415.27 pts down 

Mumbai, Sep 5 (UNI) The Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex today nose dived even below 14,500, wiping off 415.27 points to close at 14,483.83 on sustained profit booking interest across the sector triggered by persisting weak global cues.
The BSE benchmark index touched the day’s low of 14,438.59, losing [...]

By Martin Crutsinger and Alan Zibel, AP Business Writers
US Government seizes control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration’s seizure of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is potentially a $200 billion bet that it will help reverse a prolonged housing and credit crisis.
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The historic move [...]