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S&P 500 closes at a new record

Click the chart for more stock market data. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The S&P 500 managed to close at a record high Monday, boosted by gains in Bank of America and Apple. The benchmark index finished the day at a record close of 1,617.51. Earlier, it climbed as high 1,619.77. The [...]

Hot Penny Stocks: EMIS, MNGA, IQNT

It’s an exciting time for penny stocks, especially Emisphere Technologies (EMIS), MagneGas Corporation (MNGA), and Neutral Tandem (IQNT). Let’s take a closer look at these three hot penny stocks… Emisphere Technologies (OTCBB: EMIS) EMIS soared 92% last week! This exciting microcap biotech focuses on the delivery of therapeutic molecules, nutritional [...]

Stocks: Testing the record highs

Click the chart for more stock market data. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Investors are wondering how much further the bull market can run after the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average closed at record highs last week. Stocks posted slim gains Monday, amid a lack of any market moving [...]

MBIA soars 42% on reports of BofA settlement

Click on chart for more market data. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Shares of bond insurer MBIA soared Monday on reports that it has reached a settlement with Bank of America over a long-running dispute over who would be on the hook for faulty mortgage securities issued during the U.S. housing boom. [...]

Transport stocks keep on truckin’

Back the truck up! Shares of two major trucking companies were on fire Monday morning. YRC Worldwide (YRCW) surged 25%, and Arkansas Best (ABFS) jumped 30%. The gains pushed the Dow Jones Transportation Average (DJT) to an all-time high. It was a remarkable achievement considering that FedEx (FDX), one of [...]

Exclusive: Three Arch co-founder forms new VC firm

Wilf Jaeger Veteran venture capitalist

Yahoo!, Google and the Power of Video Marketing – The Business.com Growth Tour of America

This past we week, we had the opportunity to sit down with representatives from Google and Yahoo! to talk about trends in content marketing and online advertising campaigns. While there were several good takeaways from each of the sessions, one of the standouts came from our meeting with Google. They [...]

How to solve the bank capital Goldilocks question

Brown-Vitter and other efforts to boost bank capital are misguided. Capital cushions provide a false sense of security. By Cyrus Sanati FORTUNE — Recent efforts to raise bank capital requirements are off the mark. Forcing the big banks to hold on to a greater share of their assets as a [...]

Has the gold bull run out of steam?

Click chart for more on gold and other commodities. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) After rising steadily for more than a decade, gold prices have been knocked off their perch. Prices plunged to a two-year low last month, prompting investors to dump shares of gold-backed ETFs. The April sell-off pushed gold into [...]

Fund manager: Now’s the time to buy bonds

Yields are near record lows, but Doubleline founder Jeffrey Gundlach says they may go even lower. Click chart for more on bonds. Carlsbad, Calif. (CNNMoney) With Treasury yields near record lows, one contrarian fund manager says now is the time to buy. While investors around the world are voraciously hunting [...]

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