Market Gawk

The election of Nicolas Sarkozy as president of France Sunday has translated to profits for some investors.

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Sometimes a new face can make a difference, or at least the bosses at MFS Investment Management hope so.

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Nobody likes to pay full price for a car if they don’t have to. Likewise, some investors try to wait to buy a stock until it comes off its highs.

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Many investors like to hedge when buying stocks. They rely on tools such as options to protect their investments against a bad downturn.

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Lax trading led to a meager session for NASDAQ stocks Monday. The composite scrabbled to a loss of less than 0.1%. Volume slipped 24%.

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The S&P 500 rose 0.3% Monday, though NYSE volume was lighter. Smaller stocks underperformed, with the small-cap S&P 600 and the midcap…

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NYSE stocks marked fresh highs Monday. But volume dried up again.

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In medicine, one of the current buzzwords is "targeted." This is especially true in cancer treatment, where the blasts of radiation that…

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We can safely call today a consolidation day. Volume dropped way off across the board and the indices were mixed. True to recent form, large caps had the biggest gains while small caps were the weakest.
I’m starting with the Russell 2000 today since it’s clearly not acting like the other indices. […]

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The government’s star witness at former media mogul Conrad Black’s fraud trial testified Monday that he consulted Black on every business deal he made on behalf of the Hollinger newspaper empire.

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