If you're in the macro know, there's no beating around the bush: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's statements this week were major market movers.
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June 24 - News
LONDON -- Stock index futures as of 6:20 a.m.
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June 21 - News
Concerns about the Federal Reserve's eventual end to its quantitative easing program changed from a relatively orderly sell-off yesterday to slightly more panicked movements today...
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June 21 - News
A day after the Fed said it expected to kill its bond-buying program within a year, stocks continued their free fall today, as the market had its worst day since November 2011...
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June 21 - News
Stock markets tumbled today as investors sold Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's talk of tapering bond-buying.
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June 20 - News
Existing-home sales increased last month to the highest level since November 2009, and if you exclude the momentary boost from the first-time home-buyer tax credit that year, ...
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June 20 - News
Mr. Market did not appreciate Ben Bernanke's announcement yesterday on the plans for easing the current stimulus policy.
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June 20 - News
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know why the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down this morning.
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June 20 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (INDEXDJX:.DJI) are continuing their recent run of triple-digit volatility, dropping 205 by 10:55 a.m.
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June 20 - News
LONDON -- Stock index futures at 7 a.m. EDT indicate that the Dow Jones Industrial Average may open down by 0.6% this morning, while the S&P 500 may open 0.77% lower.
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June 20 - News
The claim that actions speak louder than words doesn't apply if you're the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
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June 19 - News
Blue-chip stocks were slightly lower today in anticipation of the Federal Reserve's 2 p.m.
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June 19 - News
Stocks held flat for the entire day up until the Federal Open Market Committee's release this afternoon, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dramatically plunged to session ...
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June 19 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down slightly as the market eagerly awaits the 2 p.m.
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June 19 - News
Today is the day Mr. Market has been waiting for.
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June 19 - News
Investors have been looking forward to this day for weeks, as the Federal Reserve will announce what could be a big policy shift in its handling of monetary policy and its quantitative...
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June 19 - News
Investors can never predict whether the market will rise or fall on any given day, but lately, a pretty good bet has been to expect some substantial volatility in one direction...
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June 19 - News
I checked my tracking portfolio for the Dow Jones Industrial Average today and found every single one of the 30 member stocks trading up.
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June 18 - News
All things considered, it's been an incredible run for the U.S. stock market since finding its bottom in March 2009.
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June 18 - News
Wall Street is in a good mood again a day before the conclusion of the Federal Reserve's policy meeting.
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June 18 - News
The Federal Open Market Committee's meeting this week won't end until tomorrow, but don't tell the stock market that.
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June 18 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up after inflation came in low, signaling that the Fed will likely continue its quantitative-easing program. As of 1:25 p.m.
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June 18 - News
As investors await tomorrow's conclusion of the Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting, most are betting that the central bank won't make very many changes to its current stimulus...
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June 18 - News
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) are so closely connected that they have their own celebrity-style name mash-up: Wintel.
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June 18 - News
U.S. stocks are little changed his morning as the Federal Open Market Committee's June policy meeting gets under way.
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June 18 - News
The U.S. housing market hit a critical milestone today for the first time in more than seven years.
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June 18 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow Jones Indices:.DJI) began its existence in the swelling optimism of a post-panic bull market.
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June 18 - News
Stocks jumped out of the gate this week as two strong economic reports and hopes the market would get what it wanted from the Fed in its interest rate decision on Wednesday had...
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June 18 - News
After closing with losses for the third week out of the last four, the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (INDEXDJX:.DJI) is soaring this morning.
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June 17 - News
With The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS)'s ESPN unit announcing that it will shut down its 3-D production unit at the end of the year because of the cost and a lack of interest...
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June 17 - News
Judging from the big rise in the stock market this morning, you might reasonably think that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke had come out with an illuminating speech explaining...
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June 17 - News
As we're now just days away from the next Federal Reserve meeting, fear, concern, and, most importantly, uncertainty ran rampant this past week on Wall Street, causing the three...
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June 17 - News
Retail is one of the most flimsy, fickle sectors around, and low-risk investors tend to steer clear.
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June 17 - News
We like to think of computers as silicon-driven enablers of our modern lifestyle, offering connectivity, productivity, education, and entertainment all in one package.
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June 17 - News
The fallout from Enron's collapse continued to spread for months after the former energy conglomerate filed for bankruptcy.
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June 17 - News
It was another fear-filled week, as investors were concerned that the Federal Reserve may soon begin taking its foot off the gas.
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June 17 - News
I'm a Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) shareholder, and after dealing with a few years of nearly zero return rates from the stock, I've been thrilled with the its performance...
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June 17 - News
I predicted that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) would close higher on the week.
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June 17 - News
Blue-chip stocks are broadly lower this afternoon after consumer sentiment came in lower than expected this month and as anticipation builds over the outcome of the Federal Reserve...
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June 14 - News
The markets sure lost yesterday's momentum in a hurry.
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June 14 - News
The Windows 8 update was a radical departure from the usual Windows fare.
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June 14 - News
Earlier this morning the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary Consumer Sentiment Index for June was released. The index declined from 84.5 in May to 82.7.
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June 14 - News
After trading quietly during the first hour of the day, the Dow Jones Industrials have fallen into the red, down 83 points, or 0.55%, as of 12:15 p.m. EDT.
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June 14 - News
Following two consecutive days of losses, U.S.
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June 14 - News
Stocks turned upward this afternoon as the U.S. finally shrugged off any lingering negative impact from the Japanese stock market's overnight plunge. By 2:45 p.m.
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June 13 - News
Stocks are back on the upswing today after the bearish start to the week, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) has ignored overseas pressures to post strong gains...
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June 13 - News
Right now, five stocks have delivered 10-year returns north of 4,500%. That's an annual return of at least 46% -- roughly tripling your investment every two years.
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June 13 - News
Following some better-than-expected reports on the U.S. economy, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI) is up 1:15 p.m. EDT the Dow was up 81 points to 15,078.
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June 13 - News
