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Jobs report spurs Dow beyond 15,000 for the first time
NEW YORK -- It’s only a few days into May, but already investors have seen one surprise after another, as the Dow Jones industrial average passed 15,000 for the first time Friday on the strength of a better-than-expected jobs report. The S&P 500,...
Tags: Kraft Foods Group, Inc., Federal Reserve, Stock Market, Money and Monetary Policy, Economic Indicator
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Investors snap up $17 billion in Apple bonds
First came the frenzy for iPhones and iPads. Now there's a scramble for iBonds. Apple Inc. sold $17 billion in bonds Tuesday, a gargantuan deal that ranked as the largest in global corporate history. And even though the securities are paying...
Tags: Employment, Tim Cook, Labor Markets, Career and Workplace, Financial Markets
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Stocks power through April
NEW YORK — The market wasn't supposed to go this far, this fast. Just a few months ago, Wall Street analysts predicted this year's stock rally would level off given the strong run-up seen in the first three months of the year. They held out hope...
Tags: Employment, Stock Market, Money and Monetary Policy, Career and Workplace, Labor Markets
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LinkedIn shares plunge after first-quarter earnings release
SAN FRANCISCO — LinkedIn Corp. has consistently beat Wall Street expectations since its initial public stock offering two years ago. The professional networking service did it again Thursday, reporting first-quarter revenue and net income that...
Tags: Social Media, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements
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Rising interest rates pose issue for target-date mutual funds
The appeal of age-based mutual funds is that investors generally don't have to worry about them. The funds are geared toward long-term goals such as retirement or a child's college education, and automatically shift into more conservative holdings...
Tags: Morningstar Incorporated, Money and Monetary Policy, Career and Workplace, Personal Finance, Mutual Funds
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Low interest rates not pushing investors into stocks, study says
Perhaps Americans aren’t so enamored with the stock market. More than three-quarters of individual investors say in a new survey that agonizingly low interest rates are not coaxing them into stocks. According to the study by personal-finance...
Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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BofA quadruples its profit but disappoints investors
Bank of America Corp. quadrupled its first-quarter profit, reducing expenses and loan losses and reporting better brokerage and investment banking results, but continued to be bogged down by its mortgage operations, disappointing investors. Trying to...
Tags: JPMorgan Chase & Co., Mortgages, Services and Shopping, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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Peltz discloses stakes in PepsiCo, Mondelez
Activist investor Nelson Peltz has disclosed stakes in Mondelez and PepsiCo, following earlier reports that the billionaire could be pushing for a marriage between the sweet and salty snack giants. In a statement early Friday, PepsiCo also disclosed...Tags: Kraft Foods Group, Inc., Irene B. Rosenfeld, Coca-Cola Co., PepsiCo Inc., Economy, Business and Finance
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Stocks fall on jobs report
NEW YORK — The government's disappointing jobs report disheartened investors about the pace of the global economic recovery, and short-circuited a rally that pushed stocks up more than 10% during the first three months of the year. Investors...
Tags: JPMorgan Chase & Co., Employment, Stock Market, Career and Workplace, Labor Markets
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Right now, 660,000 U.S. drivers are phoning, texting behind the wheel
Look around you the next time you're on the road. Chances are, you'll see someone still holding a smart phone to their ear, someone else with the phone on the steering wheel as they text, another peering down at something in their lap rather than...
Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Crime, Law and Justice, Ray LaHood
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California home prices and sales increase in March
Home prices across California jumped 8.3% in March compared to February and 24.7% compared to a year earlier, according to figures released by real estate firm DataQuick on Thursday. Sales rose slightly, with about 1% more new and resale homes sold last...
Tags: Real Estate Buyers, Homes, House Building, Prices, Inventories
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Home-building boom returning to Southern California
Morning light revealed pitched tents and scattered sleeping bags in front of the sales offices of luxury builder Woodbridge Pacific Group. Attracted by a dozen new Huntington Beach homes touted as "starting in the low 1,200,000s," about 15 hopefuls...
Tags: Financial and Business Services, Money and Monetary Policy, Homes, Woodbridge, Arts
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