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Market Wrap For March 21: Markets End Friday On A Negative Note, But Still Positive For The Week
Friday, March 21, 2014 - 4:38pm | 2353Read More...U.S. stocks slipped to negative territory aided in part by Friday being a quadruple witching trading session. Major indices sold off in the afternoon as investors likely took some chips off the table going in to an uncertain weekend with the situation in Ukraine far from resolved. The S&P...
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Market Wrap For March 19: Yellen Hints of Higher Rates & Sooner Than Expected End To Taper
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 6:03pm | 2470Read More...The Fed announced that it will increase its tapering by a further $10 billion in addition to dropping the 6.5 percent unemployment rate threshold which has been the target rate to hike the Fund Funds rate. Thirteen of 16 Fed officials expect the Fed Funds rate to rise by the end of 2015. The...
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Market Wrap For March 13: Bears Come Out Of Hibernation As Dow Suffers Largest Daily Loss Since February 3
Thursday, March 13, 2014 - 4:52pm | 2311Read More...U.S. stocks fell as worries piled up over China's economy and further tension in Ukraine. China's combined industrial output growth slowed to 8.6 percent on year in January and February, below a forecast for a 9.5 percent rise and a previous reading of 9.7 percent. The New York Times reported...
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Market Wrap For February 4: Investors And Traders Go Bargain Hunting
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 5:40pm | 2983Read More...U.S. stocks rose today as investors and traders felt that there were plenty of bargains in the market to be found. "Today is just a bounce. I don't think there is really that much behind it, other than some bargain hunters stepping in," Robert Pavlik, a chief market strategist said to CNBC....
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Market Wrap For February 3: Bears In Complete and Absolute Control
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 5:45pm | 2594Read More...U.S. stocks continued its losses on an accelerated basis on Monday. Investors are in clear panic mode following a report that U.S manufacturing activity expanded at a slower pace in January. The Dow plunged more than 300 points while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both fell more than two percent as...
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Market Wrap For January 22: Earnings Season Continues To Come In Mixed
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 5:58pm | 2705Read More...Wednesday marked another day of mixed trading as investors and traders continue to find little clarity from the quarterly results released so far. With the markets being a "mixed bag" major indices ended the day little changed with the Dow ending slightly in the red and both S&P 500 and...
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Market Wrap For November 25: Nasdaq Breaks 4,000 Level For First Time Since 2000
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 5:57pm | 1904Read More...The Nasdaq index traded above 4,000 for the first time since 2000. The other major indices were flat for the day as markets couldn't hold on to early gains that were boosted by an international accord with Iran. Economic news was rather light and there were no comments from a Fed chairperson that...
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For Lions Gate, the Games Are Only Beginning
Monday, June 25, 2012 - 11:22am | 1169Read More..."You think it is over, but the games have just begun." So said Tobin Bell as the Jigsaw Killer from the "Saw" franchise. Much the same could be said for Lions Gate Entertainment (NYSE: LGF), the studio that for a long time was most notable for bringing the original "Saw" and its six sequels to the...
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Earnings Highlights for the Week of May 30
Sunday, May 29, 2011 - 4:09pm | 850Read More...Things will be fairly quiet on the earnings front this holiday-shortened week as the spring earnings season winds down. Joy Global (NASDAQ: JOYG) and SAIC (NYSE: SAI) are the only S&P 500 components currently on the scheduled to report quarterly results this week. The latter is expected to post...
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'Mad Men' Coming To Netflix
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 3:15pm | 106Read More...Lions Gate Entertainment (NYSE: LGF) and Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) have agreed to a deal to stream all seven seasons of the television hit “Mad Men”. The deal is reported to be worth between $75 and $100 million. Lions Gate has a separate deal with cable network AMC to broadcast the show via more...
