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

By Associated Press Washington post, Published: January 6 NEW YORK — Everybody knows that January predicts the stock market’s direction for the year and that the best time to sell stocks is at their spring peak. And among stock market experts, it’s a sure bet that the market will soar in the year before an [...]

The merciless arithmetic of investing in commodity producers is imposing itself on many a portfolio: Copper down a few percentage points; copper stocks cut in half. It’s nice when the swing works in your favour; when it’s conspiring against your wealth, it’s an agony not even the Marquis de Sade could dream up. The bad [...]

U.S. stocks sank in a thinly traded session Wednesday as weakness in the technology sector dragged the market lower. The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) was down 47 points, or 0.4%, in afternoon trading. The S&P 500 (SPX) eased 5 points, or less than 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite (COMP) fell 27 points, or 1%. [...]

THE Australian share market closed higher today, buoyed by bargain-hunters who helped to make up ground from the previous day’s loss. Official figures showing slower than expected wages growth helped calm inflationary expectations and also provided a boost for investors. At 16:15 (AEST) the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 56.6 points, or 1.33 per cent, higher [...]

THE Australian share market recovered early heavy losses to be only slightly lower at noon, after a negative lead from global markets overnight was offset by better-than-expected results from Telstra.At 12pm (AEST), the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 1.8 points, or 0.04 per cent, at 4139.5, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 5.1 [...]

Economists looked by MarketWatch had expected the Labor Department to report an increase in initial claims, to 410,000.Trading in U.S. stock futures followed a choppy pattern with investors on edge after the previous session’s plunge, while shares of Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO +16.10% rallied in premarket trade on better-than-expected results. Futures on the Dow Jones [...]

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 [...]

Wall Street advanced for a third day on Friday as the monthly payrolls data showed the U.S. economy may be in better shape than investors had thought and helped whet some investor appetite for risk.The S&P 500 has rebounded strongly from a nearly oversold condition, gaining nearly 5 percent in the last three days, while [...]

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 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 [...]