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

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Let’s say that a new corporation is created and in its IPO it raises $20 million by selling one million shares for $20 a share. The corporation buys its equipment and hires its employees with that money. In the first year, when all the income and expenses are added up, the [...]

­The stock market appears in the news every day. You hear about it any time it reaches a new high or a new low, and you also hear about it daily in statements like “The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 2 percent today, with advances leading declines by a margin of…”
Obviously, stocks and the [...]

The following is President Bush’s statement Saturday on the financial crisis, as released by the White House. He spoke in the Rose Garden after meeting with financial ministers from the G-7 nations:
Thank you all very much. Good morning. [Treasury] Secretary [Henry] Paulson, Secretary [of State Condoleezza] Rice and I just had a productive discussion with [...]

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 [...]

Stock Markets fall on fears about world crisis - expectations mount for response. Global fears about the financial crisis deepened on Friday as stock markets the world over fell sharply and government officials scrambled to contain the damage during this stock market crash.
Expectations for a coordinated response grew while the world’s finance ministers and central [...]

Investing experts say Europe needs to address its banking problems to get markets back on track - but stocks may almost be cheap enough to attract more foreign cash during this stock market crash..
Global stock markets are in free fall Monday as European banks are starting to look like they may need their own bailout. [...]

The manager of this year’s top stock mutual fund - and only one that’s up in 2008 — explains how to do well in a bear market and stock market. Hint: He bought yesterday.

Emergency rate cut: ‘This better work’ in stock market. Will the rate cuts by global central banks eventually calm the markets down? Investors around the world have been crying loudly for the past few days. On Wednesday morning, global central banks finally gave in. But will the coordinated interest rate cuts by global central banks [...]

U.S. stock futures pointed to another sharp day of losses Friday as the frozen credit markets and lack of faith in the financial system continue to hammer stocks market around the globe. Ahead of a Group of Seven meeting of world leaders, S&P 500 futures 24.4 points to 888.30, Nasdaq 100 futures fell 24.5 points [...]

Market timing converts:
Commentary: Market Timing Popularity Indicator says bottom not yet at hand. Earlier this week, in reporting that contrarians did not believe the market had bottomed, I suggested that “When genuine capitulation finally takes place, few will recognize it as such at the time.”