Beware September: a sticky month for stocksHopes for a resurgent US stock market will be put on hold for at least a month, with September widely regarded as one of the worst times of the year for investors, warms Dave Carpenter.
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Saviour of the Universe: how to stop a Flash Crash
The Flash Crash — when Wall Street dropped hundreds of points last week in just minutes — has raised concerns of how dangerous high-frequency trading is. How can we prevent a crash from happening again?
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10 years of stock market suffering
The WSJ illustrates its bold assertion that the 2000s were the stock market’s “worst decade ever” with a range of interactive graphs to hammer home the point.
Wall Street: Worst. Decade. Ever.
The Wall Street Journal has boldly declared the 2000s the stock market’s “worst decade ever” in its 200 years of recorded history — yep, even worse than the ’30s. Ouch.
Dreamliner goes up, Boeing shares go down
Boeing’s long-awaited and problem-prone 787 Dreamliner jet may have finally taken off successfully this morning, but the company’s shares dropped 1% as it took to the skies. Is the market waiting on a safe landing?
Is gold as shiny as claimed?
For investors this year, gold has been as good as, um, gold. But it hasn’t ever reached the peak it did in 1980. Is gold really a strong long term investment or just a nice little safety net?
FBI wiretaps expose Wall Street’s seedy underbelly
Details uncovered from FBI wire-taps of Wall St insider trading rings are like The Sopranos, The Wire and Gordon Gekko’s Wall Street all rolled into one, complete with secret tips, kickbacks and disposable mobile phones.
The History of the Stock Market
Long before bears, bulls, the NASDAQ and the Dow Jones, investing in stock was a relatively simple enterprise. Mint look at how the once straightforward process of share trading between businessmen turned into the complex institution it has become today.
Improvising with the Fed
The rescue of American International Group might have settled the future of that organisation but it has done little to settle the market, writes Alan Kohler.
