Market Gawk

The dollar’s weakness does a lot more than alter your vacation plans—and there’s good news and bad news in the currency’s decline

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This winter is shaping up as one of the worst in recent memory. Much of the U.S., especially the Midwest, is a sheet of ice due to freezing…

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All’s quiet on the yuan front, despite the U.S.-China trade gap widening to another record last year.

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- The Dollar?s Decline Continues To Break Records, Next Fed Cut Looking Deeper And Deeper - Euro Further Boosted By Strong Employment And Retail Numbers - British Pound Can?t Find Its Dollar Footing As Confidence Drops To 13-Year Lows

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Investors trying to come to grips with a sharp market sell-off yanked $44.84 billion from stock funds in January, reversing December’s inflow of…

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The stock market retreated Thursday on fresh reminders of the economy’s hurdles and a warning about banks from the industry’s top regulator.

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Understanding market conditions can be overwhelming if you’re trying to analyze the dozens of factors moving the market.

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I just can’t work under these conditions! The intraday choppiness got even worse today. The market gapped down then had two cycles of mini-rallies & mini-selloffs. So it was just a microcosm of what’s been taking place in the daily charts for the last month. So it’s just more consolidation as […]

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Fremont General Corp. said late Thursday that it plans to delay interest payments on some of the debt issued by a trust unit as the lender struggles to recover from subprime mortgage problems last year. The payments will be deferred on Fremont’s junior subordinated debentures and related 9% trust originated preferred securities, the company said. Fremont ”has significant liquidity risk as a result of limited sources of cash available to satisfy its obligations,” the company explained. It’s now working with its investment-banking advisors Credit Suisse and Sandler O’Neill to explore strategic alternatives including raising capital, restructuring debt and the possible sale of the company, Fremont added. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

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