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Your Smartest Money Move for 2012

Your Smartest Money Move for 2012 By Dan Caplinger Don’t let it get away! Keep track of the stocks that […]

Expanded Fannie, Freddie Role Could Help Heal Housing: Fed

An expanded role for government mortgage finance agencies could help heal U.S. housing markets, where lingering pain is undercutting economic […]

Hedge Funds Piling Into Housing

By Jacob Wolinsky, Valuewalk, Big money is starting to wager on housing. Hedge funds run by Caxton Associates LP, SAC […]

5 Tech Trends to Watch in 2012

2012 promises to be a very busy year in all things digital, but, as with any annum, there will be […]

10 surprises for 2012

LONDON (MarketWatch) — Shortly before the 1929 stock-market crash that ushered in a global recession, the American economist Irving Fisher […]

Contract signings for US homes up in November

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes in November rose to the highest level […]

Lessons of the 1930s

Lessons of the 1930s There could be trouble ahead In 2008 the world dodged a second Depression by avoiding the […]

Survey: Home prices down in most major U.S. cities

U.S. home prices continue to fall despite improving consumer confidence. Home prices were down 3.4% in October from the same […]

Dow Futures rising

Broader indexes heading higher NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock futures are rising ahead of a trio of government reporters […]

NYSE stocks posting largest volume increases

NEW YORK (AP) — A look at the 10 biggest volume gainers on New York Stock Exchange at the close […]