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The push for a female libido pill reveals misunderstandings about female sexuality. Plus: Jorge Ramos' confrontation with the GOP front-runner; a guide to parsing stock market coverage; and an...
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Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Stock Market Volatility Edition
When stock markets are volatile, the media careen from mass panic to euphoric relief to speaking in tongues. With the help of Fusion's Felix Salmon, we offer you another one of our Breaking News...
View ArticleFinding the Intersection of Politics and the Stock Market
There is an 82 percent accuracy rate when the S&P stocks rise in an election year, the incumbent president wins, and if prices fall he will lose. Charlie Herman, business and economics editor for...
View ArticleIs the Stock Market Broken? And the Chick-fil-A Boycott
This week a technical glitch in electronic trading sent the stocks of nearly 150 companies, like Bank of America and GE, on a wild ride. It was the latest in a string of stock market snafus, including...
View ArticleRomney or Obama? The Stock Market Might Have the Answer
There’s a lot of hand wringing going on over the stability of financial markets after a wild morning of trading this week. By all accounts, a computer glitch in the trading program at Knight Capital...
View ArticleErrant Trades Shake Up Wall Street
A massive trading glitch at the New York Stock Exchange this week may cost Wall Street brokerage and market maker Knight Capital as much as $440 million. Nathaniel Popper from our partner the New York...
View ArticleEarly Facebook Investors Can Start Selling Shares Thursday
From the start, Facebook investors have had a bumpy ride. Later this week it could get even bumpier when rules that have thus far kept early investors from selling their shares expire. When they do,...
View ArticleWhat Does High-Frequency Trading Mean For Your Average Investor?
In Olympic track and field, a tenth of a second can mean the difference between the gold and the silver. But on Wall Street, mere milliseconds separate the winners from the losers as a result of a...
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For Some Stock-Pickers, Life Is Tweet
What if Facebook likes and Twitter posts could give investors clues about market trends? The idea may not be as farfetched as it sounds.Sentiment analysis is a fairly new field of research that looks...
View ArticleStock Market Rises as Sequester Looms
A month ago, the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 14,000 for the first time since 2007, and it has continued to hover around that mark. At the same time, the economy is limping along, and the...
View ArticleDoes the Record Dow Matter?
The Dow hit a record high yesterday, but other economic indicators show lower wages and diminished household wealth. Dan Gross, columnist and global business editor at Newsweek and the Daily Beast,...
View ArticleJoe Nocera on Dow 15,000 and Gun Death 4,000
Joe Nocera, op-ed columnist at the New York Times andMoney Talking contributor, discusses the implications of the Dow hitting 15,000 and his continuing series focusing on gun violence.
View ArticleWhere Is the Economy Headed This Summer?
As we approach the summer, the economy is looking like it's doing better: unemployment is falling, stocks are rising and housing is looking better than ever. In the past few years, however, the economy...
View ArticleHow High Can the Stock Market Go?
The stock market has been on a tear recently with one measure — the Dow Jones Industrial Average — up nearly 17 percent so far this year. The stratospheric rise makes you wonder whether the market can...
View ArticleEasing Economic Stimulus & Protecting the Fragile Economy
That announcement from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke last week that the Fed plans to pull back on stimulating the economy was one big factor that precipitated what's being called a liquidity...
View ArticleSeptember Stock Market Blues?
September is historically the worst month for the stock market. Add to that, a showdown over government spending, unrest in the Middle East and nerves about what the Federal Reserve is going to do, and...
View ArticleGovernment Shuts Down, Markets Says "Meh"
The federal government is shutdown, but the stock market is holding steady. What gives?This week on Money Talking, WNYC contributors Joe Nocera of the New York Times and Rana Foroohar of Time magazine...
View ArticleDow Jones Jumps 200 Points on News of Potential Debt Deal
News of a deal to raise the debt limit sent stocks soaring Wednesday. The Dow Jones added over 200 points. But traders at the New York Stock Exchange weren't especially impressed."It's great to see on...
View ArticleWhat to Make of Faltering Tech Icons like HP and Blackberry
A lot of iconic companies in the tech sector like HP, Cisco and Blackberry have been struggling recently. This week on Money Talking, regular contributors Joe Nocera of the New York Times and Rana...
View ArticleLatest on Metro-North Derailment; The Next Stock Bubble; Kenneth Cole; What I...
The latest on the Metro-North derailment in the Bronx. Cyber Monday meets Obamacare. De Blasio transition latest. Plus: Bloomberg Businessweek's Roben Farzad explains why stock market analysts are...
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