| Wall Street slides after weak housing data (Reuters) Stocks slid 1 percent on Tuesday as a fall in home sales last month that exceeded even the most pessimistic estimates confirmed investor fears the economic recovery is fragile. finance.yahoo.com |
Stocks Pare Gains; Banks Rise, McDonald s Slips [at CNBC] - Stocks rose Monday following news banks will have a phased-in timeline to meet new international bank capital rules, although gains were capped as the market reached key resistance levels. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Tech Stocks: Tech stocks make modest gains despite H-P [at MarketWatch] - Company s stock drops as tech giant appoints Leo Apotheker to top post. Amazon shares fall on downgrade. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Movers roundup: Seagate, Google Among the stock activity stories for Friday, Oct. 15, from The Associated Press: -- Shares of Seagate Technology surged after the hard-disk-drive maker said it is in talks with an unnamed party interested in taking the company private. finance.yahoo.com |
Private survey points to slow economic growth A key gauge of future U.S. economic activity posted a third successive increase in September, but at a pace so modest that it implied only lackluster growth ahead. pheedo.msnbc.msn.com |