Mutual fund favorites
Microsoft isn’t the most buzzworthy tech stock, but it edges out Apple and Google in at least one tally. It ranks No. 1 in terms of popularity among mutual fund managers.
Time to buy JPMorgan?
May. 24, 2012
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Fueled by lower gas prices
May. 23, 2012
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Dividend danger ahead
May. 22, 2012
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Facebook takes the stage
May. 19, 2012
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- A look at economic developments around the globe
A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday:
Stocks fall on Wall Street as Spanish bank teeters
NEW YORK (AP) — Another flare-up in Europe's debt crisis knocked U.S. markets lower Friday. This time, it was more trouble at a major Spanish bank.
- Prices of Facebook stock since long-awaited IPO
Facebook Inc. began trading publicly last Friday following one of the most anticipated stock offerings in history. The initial public offering of stock priced at $38 a day earlier. That was at the top of a projected range that Facebook had already boosted just days earlier.
- Talbots, Sealy, VeriFone are market movers
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:
- How the major stock indexes fared on Friday
Concerns about Europe pushed U.S. markets lower Friday but didn't erase all the gains from Monday and Thursday. The Dow Jones industrial average finished up for the week for the first time in May.
- Wheat climbs as dry weather lingers over Kansas
Wheat prices rose 2.6 percent Friday as questions persisted about how much dry weather has affected the crop in Kansas.
- News Summary: Wheat climbs as dry weather lingers
MAY'S WILD RIDE: Wheat rose 2.6 percent as questions persisted about how much dry weather has affected the crop in Kansas. In a matter of two weeks, the price has hit a high for the year and also nearly hit a 2012 low, largely because of weather issues.
- German consumer confidence steady
BERLIN (AP) — A study shows German consumers remain cautiously confident in Europe's largest economy despite uncertainty in the wider 17-nation eurozone.
- A look at economic developments around the globe
A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Thursday:
Tiffany's cuts outlook amid slowing demand
NEW YORK (AP) — Tiffany & Co., a bellwether of luxury spending, says its sales aren't rising as fast as last year in the U.S. or abroad, and the gift and jewelry chain cut its forecasts for sales and profit for the year.
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HP to cut 27,000 jobs
Hewlett-Packard announced what amounts to the largest payroll purge in Silicon Valley pioneer’s 73-year history. CEO Meg Whitman says 8 percent of HP's nearly 350,000 employees are to be gone by October 2014.
