Two hours into the trading day, Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) stock is down 0.6%.
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July 9 - News
The first trading day of the week kicks off with Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA) posting quarterly results. The aluminum giant has fallen out of favor with investors.
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July 8 - News
If you thought last month was volatile, you were on to something.
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July 8 - News
What happens when the unstoppable force known as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow Jones Indices:.DJI) meets the immovable object known as short-sellers? Thus far, the answer...
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July 8 - News
This morning the Department of Labor released June's jobs report, which indicated that 195,000 new jobs had been created in the month.
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July 5 - News
Half of 2013 is in the books, and the Dow Jones Industrials are up 14% on the year thus far.
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July 5 - News
President Benjamin Harrison signed the Sherman Antitrust Act into law on July 2, 1890.
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July 3 - News
Mid-week holidays are a relative rarity for the stock market, and Thursday's Independence Day holiday prompted the stock exchanges to set a 1 p.m.
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July 3 - News
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on.
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July 3 - News
If you consistently invest along with the majority you are doomed to perform as they do, which is mediocre at best.
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July 1 - News
With the stock market already having put in a strong year's worth of performance in just the first six months of 2013, investors are torn between fear and greed.
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July 1 - News
Commodities appear to be in freefall with lots of catalysts being thrown around: a stronger dollar index, changes in the global macro-economic outlook, core PCE inflation in the...
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July 1 - News
Recently, corporate America has been faced with a problem.
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July 1 - News
When looking at a stock it is always tempting to take an initial peek at its share price graph to make a quick and easy assessment.
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July 1 - News
Metals such as copper and aluminum continue to struggle and even investment commodities like gold are not doing too well.
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June 28 - News
Yes, you read the headline correctly. Revised GDP numbers for the first quarter were released today, and, long story short, they were abysmal.
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June 27 - News
This month's see-saw in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) has turned triple-digit movements into an everyday occasion.
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June 26 - News
Blue-chip stocks are rallying today despite news that first-quarter gross domestic product was revised downward by the Department of Commerce.
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June 26 - News
The big news on Wall Street today is that the Department of Commerce's final reading of first-quarter GDP was released, and it was revised downward from 2.4% to 1.8%, the markets...
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June 26 - News
Ever since the Federal Reserve announced its preliminary plans to exit its quantitative-easing program, investors have changed their previous views that the Fed wouldn't do anything...
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June 26 - News
Year-to-date, shares of the aluminum giant Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA) are down 8.06% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (INDEXDJX:.DJI) has risen 12.94%.
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June 24 - 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
At the moment, there are dozens of methods market participants can use to track Mr. Market. Two of the best are hedge fund and insider trading interest.
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June 18 - News
Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ:CENX) was in 9 hedge funds' portfolio at the end of March.
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June 18 - News
The S&P 500 has soared in the past four years, leading many to fear that the index is long overdue for a major correction.
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June 17 - News
When odds continue to stack up, only the toughest can survive. The world’s leading aluminum producer, Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA), is proving this every day.
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June 17 - News
It’s been a mixed earnings season for industrial-based stocks and AMETEK, Inc.
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June 17 - News
Basic-materials companies with operations engaged in commodities provide the resources needed to build and maintain our society.
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June 12 - News
The first public gas utility company in the Western Hemisphere -- and one of the earliest known public utilities anywhere -- was born in a museum on Baltimore's Holliday Street...
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June 11 - News
Dow component leader Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA) has been affected particularly hard.
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June 11 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average may have had a slight swoon over the past two weeks, but make no mistake about it -- the economy is slowly finding its footing thanks to a shrinking...
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June 10 - News
It was quite the week on Wall Street.
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June 10 - News
Fools, its $400 billion. Four hundred billion! That number is huge.
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June 10 - News
Investors count on the Dow Jones Industrials to represent the cream of the crop of America's top companies.
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June 10 - News
Not a single stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended in the black Wednesday, as a lukewarm jobs report and weak factory orders sent the index 216 points, or 1.4%, lower...
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June 6 - News
A huge amount of important economic news from around the world makes it tough to decipher exactly what might be responsible for the stock market's movements this morning, but ...
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June 5 - News
Companies reliant on growth in manufacturing and consumer spending have had a tough time over the past few years.
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June 4 - News
At the moment, there are a multitude of gauges market participants can use to track their holdings. A duo of the most useful are hedge fund and insider trading movement.
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June 3 - News
Two of the Dow Jones Industrial Average's components had eventful days on June 1 throughout their histories.
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June 3 - News
Now that we've gotten through five months of 2013, it's a good time to review which stocks have performed well for the year, which haven't, and whether you should own any of them...
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June 3 - News
According to most traders, hedge funds are perceived as underperforming, outdated investment tools of years past.
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May 30 - News
This morning investors were hit with three economic data points: weekly jobless claims, first-quarter GDP, and the National Association of Realtors' pending-home-sales number.
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May 30 - News
Long-term investors like companies with strong fundamentals.
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May 29 - News
The Aluminum Company of America, or Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA), has not been receiving much love from investors lately.
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May 28 - News
Before the opening bell this morning, it appeared that there would be a bloodbath.
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May 23 - News
Fear has held the Dow Jones Industrial Average back today after international markets were hammered overnight.
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May 23 - News
Another week and another set of earnings in the industrial space that confirms the curious bifurcation in the sector.
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May 22 - News
Dividend stocks outperform non-dividend-paying stocks over the long run.
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May 21 - News
If you look through some explanations of why the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow Jones Indices:.DJI) failed to set a new record today, you'll find a common theme: Investors...
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May 21 - News