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Word on Wall Street “It’s going to take a long time to get this through. Entrenched interests will have to be assuaged or diffused. It’s like merging Exxon and Mobil or Chrysler and Daimler. There ar…

News ) -Wall Street managed a moderate gain in the final session of a dismal first quarter Monday, but stock prices and the major indexes still ended the first three months of 2008 with massive losses…

The sharemarket started the new financial year on a positive note after Wall Street rallied and there was no sign of it being an April Fool’s joke.The NZSX-50 benchmark index rose 9.851 points to 3480…

Yes, lots of rhetoric, window dressing to make it look politically correct. Hearings yes. But no new legislation. Wall Street dodges the re-regulation bullet, goes on its merry way, gambling with your…

Perhaps not surprisingly, the message is mixed. On the one hand, losing first quarters are not necessarily followed by second quarters in which the stock market performs all that poorly. Consider all …

) said it plans to cut product costs and close its Austin, Texas desktop manufacturing facility in fiscal 2009 in a move to focus more on its global consumer, enterprise, notebooks, small and medium…

said it is back in compliance with Nasdaq’s minimum share-price requirement but had received a warning over the value of its listed securities. Fremont-based Vermillion said its stock closed at $1 p…

NEW YORK – Wall Street managed a moderate gain in the final session of a dismal first quarter Monday, but stock prices and the major indexes still ended the first three months of 2007 with massi…

Dan Seymour And Joe Bel Bruno March 31, 2008 - 4:27 p.m. NEW YORK (AP) - The Bush administration's plan to overhaul the financial regulatory system was described by Wall Street players Monday…

By Caroline ValetkevitchNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks gained on Monday as a report showing stronger-than-expected Midwestern business activity eased worries about the economy and a plan for regulat…