5 Fun Facts About the DowDailyFinanceThe DJIA was founded on May 26, 1896, by Wall Street Journal editor Charles Dow and statistician Edward Jones. The index closed that day at 40.94. If you had invested $1 in it then, you'd have approximately $305 today, a return of more than 30300%.and more »
24 May 2012 | 4:23 pm
China's Top Fund Manager Sees Stock Gains on Pro-Growth PolicyBusinessWeekThe Shanghai Composite Index has fallen 4.5 percent from this year's high of 2460.69 set on March 2 on concern a slowdown in the Chinese economy is accelerating. A report from HSBC Holdings Plc and Markit Economics yesterday showed a preliminary ...and more »
24 May 2012 | 4:08 pm
How the major stock indexes fared on ThursdayWBRCThe Wall Street Journal is reporting that Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s bankruptcy estate has reached a deal to acquire a bigger stake in apartment-building owner Archstone for $1.58 billion.More >> Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s bankruptcy estate ...and more »
24 May 2012 | 2:33 pm
JP Morgan Had $101.3 Billion One-Sided Exposure, Fed Data ShowFox BusinessThe Federal Reserve data, first reported Wednesday by Reuters, validate earlier reports by The Wall Street Journal that positions by traders at the bank, including one dubbed "the London whale," had reached a face value of $100 billion or more.and more »
24 May 2012 | 2:21 pm
Mutual fund news: Facebook, Bill Gross, VanguardWBOC TV 16Entertainment News from AP The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s bankruptcy estate has reached a deal to acquire a bigger stake in apartment-building owner Archstone for $1.58 billion.More Lehman Brothers Holdings ...and more »
24 May 2012 | 2:16 pm
Xpress Reviews: Nonfiction | First Look at New Books, May 25, 2012Library JournalHenrietta Thornton-Verma, Library Journal Solmonson, Lesley Jacobs. Gin: A Global History. ISBN 9781861899248. ea. vol: Reaktion, dist. by Univ. of Chicago. (Edible Series). 2012. c.128p. illus. bibliog. index. $17. BEVERAGES Each of the approximately ...
24 May 2012 | 10:29 am
China climbs the Nature ranksChina DailyLONDON - China is on track to be the second most influential country in science publishing, said a report published by the prestigious journal Nature on Wednesday. The Nature Publishing Index 2011 China, a supplement to Nature, calculates that papers ...and more »
23 May 2012 | 3:29 pm
March FNC Residential Price Index up 0.5%MarketWatch (press release)[2] The procedures used to create the index are described in "Hedonic versus repeat-sales housing price indexes for measuring the recent boom-bust cycle," by Dorsey, RE, Hu, H., Mayer, WJ, and Wang, HC, Journal of Housing Economics 19 (2), 75--93.and more »
23 May 2012 | 8:47 am
BloombergEuropean Stock-Index Futures Decline Amid Greek ConcernBloombergGreece's former Prime Minister Lucas Papademos said that while it is unlikely the nation will leave the euro, it's still a risk, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday after the close of European trading. National benchmark indexes fell in all the ...European Stocks Decline Amid Greek Concern; LSE, Burberry TumbleSan Francisco ChronicleUK Stocks Rise on China Demand Prospects; Xstrata GainsBusinessWeekall 6 news articles »
22 May 2012 | 11:36 pm
BloombergChina's Stocks Decline on Slowing Economy, Greece ConcernsBusinessWeekThe MSCI Asia Pacific Index slid 1.6 percent today. Greece's former Prime Minister Lucas Papademos said that while it is unlikely the nation will leave the euro, it's still a risk, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal yesterday.Overseas rally gives local stocks a boostPeople's Daily Onlineall 93 news articles »
22 May 2012 | 6:51 pm