Financial Market Updates
Financial updates from The Associated Press. Market updates are posted one or more times each weekday. Columns are updated weekly.
3:25 PM PDT, September 19, 2008
Treasury prices sink as investors flock to stocks in anticipation of bank rescue plan
NEW YORK (AP) _ Government bond prices tumbled Friday as the U.S. government said it was drafting a plan to rescue the nation's embattled banks, leading investors to take their money out of Treasurys and put it back into stocks.
4:27 PM PDT, July 17, 2007
Commodities Prices Have Broad Decline
Commodities prices declined broadly Tuesday as the oil market relinquished its early gains and the weakness spilled into the precious metals market. Agriculture futures also tumbled.
11:00 AM PDT, July 31, 2006
Monday's Metal Prices
Spot nonferrous metal prices Mon. Aluminum - $1.138 per lb., London Metal Exch. Mon.
12:17 AM PDT, July 29, 2008
Japanese shares fall on fresh worries over US financial sector
TOKYO (AP) _ Japanese shares tumbled Tuesday after a sharp drop on Wall Street overnight and on fresh concerns over the health of the U.S. financial sector.
9:37 AM PST, November 28, 2008
Dollar falls, gold rises in Europe
LONDON (AP) _ The U.S. dollar was lower against other major currencies in European trading Thursday morning. Gold rose.
12:22 PM PDT, September 8, 2009
Gold prices at 18-month high over $1,000 on dollar weakness, low interest rate expectations
LONDON (AP) — The price of gold rose above $1,000 per ounce on Tuesday to its highest since March 2008 — suggesting investors are wary of the U.S. dollar's weakness and expect international interest rates to remain low for some time.
8:08 AM PDT, April 1, 2009
Allowance 101: How to get your kids started on money management
NEW YORK (AP) — Scrawled in big, pink letters across three envelopes are the words "spend," ''save" and "give." It's how second-grader Chloe McLaughlin organizes her $8 allowance.
10:16 AM PDT, July 14, 2009
Career guidance handbook from a 40-year vet, a portrait of the entrepreneur
CAREER COACH: The "Job-Hunter's Survival Guide" is a slim paperback manual of little more than 100 pages, chock-a-block with bullet points and tips, wrapped in a road-sign shade of yellow.
1:46 PM PDT, March 12, 2009
Shakeout from last fall's money-market fund collapse just starting to sink in
BOSTON (AP) — It's not the sexiest investment around, but the money-market mutual fund has become a high-demand safe haven for those who can no longer stomach the stock market.
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