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Japanese Stocks Open Down; Nikkei Off 3.6 Percent
By not in system - AOL NewsTOKYO -- Japanese shares fell again Thursday amid jitters over the nation's nuclear crisis, erasing a portion of the gains from a post-quake rally. The benchmark Nikkei 225 shed 4.1 percent to 8,721.88 points. That wiped out a portion of gains from Wednesday's rally, which followed a sharp plunge in prices. Japan's devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis last week triggered widespread selling, wiping out all of the stock market's gains this year. In currency markets, the U.S. dollar fell to a record low against Japan's yen as companies sold dollar-denominated assets to raise ...
Japan Shares Surge as Central Bank Pumps Further $43B Into Market
By not in system - AOL NewsTOKYO -- Japanese shares rebounded sharply Wednesday, recovering some of the massive losses sustained the last two days following a devastating earthquake and tsunami. The Nikkei rose 547.86 points, or 6.4 percent, to 9,153.01. The index closed at its lowest level in almost two years Tuesday after shedding more than 1,600 points, or 16 percent, in two days. The plunge prompted Tokyo Stock Exchange President Atsushi Saito to release a statement late Tuesday urging for calm. He noted that the foreign media remained impressed by the potential power of the Japanese economy, and that foreign ...
Source: Hackers Penetrate Nasdaq Computer Network
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON - A federal government official tells The Associated Press that investigators are trying to identify computer hackers who have repeatedly broken into the network of the company that runs the Nasdaq Stock Market. The official says that the hackers haven't compromised the exchange's trading platform and that investigators are looking into a range of possible motives for the cyberattacks - from financial gain to a national security threat. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the inquiry by the FBI and Secret Service is continuing. The official says the penetrations ...
RockTenn Buys Smurfit-Stone: 3 Good Things About the $3.5 Billion Deal
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsAll of a sudden, people are excited about cardboard boxes. On Sunday, paper and packaging company RockTenn Co. said it would acquire rival Smurfit-Stone for $3.5 billion in cash and stock, a deal that will create the second-largest container-board company in North America. Its combined annual sales will total $9 billion after the acquisition closes in the second quarter of this year. The companies have not released specific information about the impact on employees and operations, and although corporate takeovers often involve bad news for some workers, today there's a lot of positive ...
Opinion: The SEC's Misguided 'Insider' Trading Crackdown
By Marty Robins - AOL News(Dec. 2) -- With unemployment benefits about to run out for many and Bush tax cuts about to expire for all, putting the brakes on the government's overzealous enforcement of insider trading rules would hardly seem like an economic priority for Congress. But it should be. And here's why. In recent months, the Securities and Exchange Commission has been cracking down on insider trading, but doing it in a way that expands the definition of insider trading so much that it's threatening to undermine confidence and participation in financial markets at the worst possible time. Rising investment ...
Big New York Insider Trading Probe Spawns Another
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Nov.26) -- An insider trading case last year that federal authorities said was the biggest ever is providing a recipe for another case that may be even bigger. The current case is largely an extension of work that led to the arrest of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam in October 2009. The Galleon investigation marked the first time that federal authorities used wiretaps in an insider trading probe. Similarly, wiretaps led to the first arrest in the latest case. Don Ching Trang Chu, a consulting firm executive, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly providing private information ...
Stocks Hit Highest Level Since Lehman Bros. Bankruptcy
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 4) -- Are the bulls back? The Dow Jones industrial average today rose to its highest level since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy in 2008, at the height of the U.S. financial crisis, The Wall Street Journal reports. U.S. stocks rose by 219 points, or 2 percent of total volume, in trading at the New York Stock Exchange. That jump followed Wednesday's announcement that the Federal Reserve said it would buy $600 billion in U.S. Treasury securities to help stimulate the lackluster economy, AOL News reported. The stock market gains also come as a slew of corporate ...
Do Twitter Mood Swings Predict the Stock Market?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct 18) -- Just because 71 percent of all tweets go unnoticed, that doesn't mean they don't contain valuable information. A new study from Indiana University claims that the emotions of the Twitterverse can predict stock market behavior two to six days in advance. From March to December 2008, researchers Johan Bollen, Huina Mao and Xiao-Jun Zeng monitored almost 10 million tweets from 2.7 million Twitter users under two Twitter mood-tracking devices -- OpinionFinder and Google Profile of Mood States algorithm. The algorithm monitors six characteristics -- happiness, kindness, alertness, ...
Forget 11,000. What's Happening in the Dow?
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(Oct. 11) -- Although easy money on the part of the Fed might have investors embracing riskier assets like stocks, a look at what's happening in the blue chips shows that traders have been hedging their bets. See full article from DailyFinance: http://srph.it/ajCTmT ...
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