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Stocks ended lower on Monday as rising bond yields in Italy and other euro zone countries reminded investors that despite changes in governments, the region's debt crisis could still spin out of control.The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 74.70 points, or 0.61%, to 12,078.98. The S&P 500 relinquished recently captured ...

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U.S. stocks opened sharply lower on Monday, with Wall Street relinquishing some of its recent rise, as the yen fell after Japanese officials tried again to weaken the currency. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lately fell 150.65 points to 12,080.46. The S&P 500 Index declined 18.34 points to 1,266.75. The ...

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U.S. stocks rallied about 3% Thursday as investors bid up banks, resource and tech stocks after European leaders reached a deal to leverage their bailout fund, pump more money into banks and restructure Greece's debt. The first estimate of U.S. economic growth for the third quarter also helped. The Dow ...

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"We are moving into a dangerous period and I think we now see the particularly sensitive time in the Euro zone. " World Bank President Robert Zoellick said in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Singapore today. " The number of issues are converging.In the summer, what you started to see ...

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How often have you looked at a chart and tried to determine whether or not the market is really trending? How many times have you been fooled by your Stochastics or RSI indicators? How many times have you sold because your oscillators were screaming overbought then watched the market dip ...

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There are two important lessons when studying chart patterns. The first is that none of these chart patterns are infallible. They work most of the time, but not always. The second lesson is that technical traders must always be on the alert for chart signs that their analysis is incorrect. One ...

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U.S. stocks Thursday clocked their fourth day of massive moves, this time rising, after a drop in jobless claims and earnings from Cisco Systems Inc. swung investor sentiment higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 423.37 points, or 3.95%, to 11,143.31. The S&P 500 ended up 51.88 points, or 4.63%, ...

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U.S. stocks on Tuesday surged the most in two years after its worst day since 2008, as a divided Federal Open Market Committee said benchmark rates would stay near zero through mid-2013. After relinquishing 634.76 points, or 5.6%, in Monday’s battering, the Dow industrials rallied back, gaining 429.92 points, or ...

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U.S. stocks were able to claim a week of gains by the time the market closed Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 43.25 points, or 0.34%, to 12,681.16. The S&P 500 gained 1.22 points, or 0.09%, to 1,345.02. The Nasdaq Composite added 24.40 points, or 0.86%, to 2,858.83. For ...

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An option strategy is implemented by combining one or more option positions and possibly an underlying stock position. Options are financial instruments that give the buyer the right to buy (for a call option) or sell (for a put option) the underlying security at some specific point of time in ...

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