Stock Market

By Carla Mozee, MarketWatch






LOS ANGELE…

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The Nasdaq composite index briefly cracked 3,000 on Wednesday for the first time since the meltdown in dot-com stocks more than a decade ago. The stock market sank but was still on its way to closing its best February in 14 years.The milestone for the …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Growing global bullishness may erode South African stocks’ perceived safe haven status, which helped them outperform many emerging markets last year despite infrastructure bottlenecks, political risk and rand volatility.
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Click chart for more markets data.NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — While stocks ended slightly lower, Wednesday’s biggest market moves were in the bond, commodity and currency markets — with 10-year Treasury yields surging higher and the price of gold, silve…

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Stocks are rising just after the market opened, on track to end their best February in 14 years.The Standard & Poor’s 500 index is up 4.8 percent this month. It hasn’t gained that much in a February since 1998, before the tech bubble burst. The Dow…

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Click the chart for more premarket data.NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — U.S. stocks were set for a higher open Wednesday, after the European Central Bank said that it well lend €529.5 billion, or $721.4 billion, to European banks in an effort to prevent a …

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Most investors think of bonds as being less lucrative investments than stocks. They should think again.

When you buy bonds, you’re lending money to corporati…

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Indonesian infrastructure stocks are
poised to advance as a $19 billion government spending plan
boosts the outlook for shares in Southeast Asia’s largest
economy, Nomura Holdings Inc. says.
Companies inclu…

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The Australian market has opened higher this morning after the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 13,000-point mark for the first time since May 2008 on stronger consumer confidence data and European markets ga…

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