After getting off to a relatively flat start, stocks trended steadily lower throughout the first half of the day, drifted sideways throughout the afternoon, then edged to new intraday lows in the final hour of trading. All the major indices closed substantially lower. The Dow Jones Industrial Average Read more…

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Martin D. Weiss:  The first-ever downgrade of U.S. debt, announced Friday by Standard & Poor’s, hit Asian stocks hard last night and is about to slam into U.S. markets at the opening bell a couple of hours from now. Read more…

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Claus Vogt:  The stock market is a leading economic indicator with an impressive track record. And that’s exactly how I am interpreting three recent developments and why I want to warn you about Read more…

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Nasdaq OMX announced today that it will cut the weight of 82 securities represented in the Nasdaq-100 to bring them more in line with their market capitalizations. Under normal conditions, the list of annual Read more…

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