| Wall Street Struggles at It Absorbs Housing Data (at New York Times) A worse-than-expected report on existing homes sales follows a decline overseas. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Stocks Give Back Some Gains [at TheStreet.com] - Stocks rose Monday, buoyed by renewed confidence in the banking sector after international regulators agreed to raise capital standards. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Energy Stocks: Energy stocks stride into fourth quarter [at MarketWatch] - Energy stocks rise as oil tops $81; Repsol sells a chunk of Brazilian assets to Sinopec for $7 billion, and the broad equities market kicks off the first day of the fourth quarter with gains. us.rd.yahoo.com |
US SMALL/MIDCAPS-Indexes up for fifth week in a row Small-cap and mid-cap shares logged a fifth straight week of gains on Friday, but were little changed for the day as stocks gave back ground and losses in the financial sector weighed. us.rd.yahoo.com |
The Next Bubble Wall Street is snapping up assets of the “emerging economies.” Financial regulators in these countries need to pay close attention. nytimes.com |