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Roland Randall, strategist at TD Securities, said the U.S. downgrade was “another tick in the box for the long-term bears, and that’s the real concern — that it makes people a bit more pessimistic on the long-term economic outlook.” China’s Shanghai Composite Index CN:000001 -3.79% , South Korea’s Kospi KR:0100 -3.82% and Taiwan’s Taiex each [...]

US Stock market futures pointed to a sharply lower open on Wall Street Monday following on from last weeks downgrade of America’s credit rating from triple-A for the first time in history by ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P). S&P came in for significant criticism from US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the rating agency [...]

Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJ1U -1.93% slumped 245 points to 11,159. Futures on the Standard & Poor’s 500 index SP1U -2.15% dropped 29.30 points to 1,168.50 and those on the Nasdaq 100 ND1U -2.28% sank 54.50 points to 2,132.50. After the close of Wall Street trading on Friday, Standard & Poor’s downgraded [...]

Watching the broader oil sector, the NYSE Arca Oil Index XX:XOI -0.23% shed 0.2% to end at 1,148.91 points. Year to date, it’s down 5.3%. The Philadelphia Oil Service Sector Index OSX -0.87% lost 0.9% to 237.20 points, closing 13% lower week to date. New Hub: Jobless rate ticks down On the heels of a [...]

“People are worried about liquidity and where the economy is going and don’t see any sort of life preserver as yet,” said Doug Roberts, chief investment strategist at Channel Capital Research. On Friday, not even a better-than-expected July jobs report, which included upward revisions to May and June and a drop in the unemployment rate [...]

“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 [...]

The economic anxiety is signaling by two-week plunge in stock prices  , but it’s also compounding the problem: Lower stock prices are shrinking Americans’ wealth, rattling their confidence and making them less inclined to spend.And employers may become even slower to hire. The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 513 points, or 4 percent, Thursday on [...]

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 [...]