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Good Evening: Multiple crosscurrents prevented stocks from making much headway in either direction today, with the major averages...

I mentioned a few weeks ago we were hosting a conference in NYC on June 3 2009. The conference is coming together nicely, with some...

While commodity prices have sold off the past 2 days due to concerns with the impact that swine flu will have on global growth, the...

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Today’s readings: INVESTING & TRADING • Estimates of economic costs of a flu pandemic (Telegraph) The World Bank estimated in...

Vitaliy N. Katsenelson, CFA, is director of research at Investment Management Associates in Denver, Colo., and he teaches a graduate...

heh heh: Meet the Cassandras, 14 economists, bloggers, politicians and businesspeople of all political stripes who have become the most...

Reporter David Segal looks at the town that might have lost more money per square mile than any other in the country because of the...

The April Conference Board Consumer Confidence # was a much better than expected 39.2, almost 10 pts better than forecasted and up from a...

Finally! I have, over the years, exhorted Dow Jones to make the very best feature of the ILX service — the Dow Jones Market Talk...