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Stocks picked up steam early on Friday as Citigroup Inc. and Google Inc. helped ease investor anxiety about the corporate earnings season.Investors have been worried that recent data indicates a slowi…

Wall Street rallied Friday after Citigroup reported losses that were not severe as anticipated and announced plans to slash more than 9,000 jobs to help the bank recover from the credit crisis.

NEW YORK (AP) — Treasury prices finished mixed after an initial decline Friday as investors moved into long-term government debt after comments from Federal Reserve officials appeared to quell s…

Hong Kong stocks dipped 61.18 points, or 0.25 percent, to close at 24,197.78 on Friday, tracking the fall of the Chinese mainland markets. Turnover increased to 79.89 billion HK dollars (10.26 billion…

NEW YORK - Wall Street topped off a strong week with a big rally today, after results from companies like Citigroup and Google helped ease investor anxiety about the health of corporate profits. The m…

NEW YORK-Global stocks soared on Friday on US earnings reports, including results from Citigroup, that gave investors hope the worst of a sharp credit crunch that has battered markets for months was o…

NEW YORK-(UPDATE) US stocks surged on Friday as Internet leader Google and heavy equipment maker Caterpillar showed resilience in the face of a slowing economy with profits that defied Wall Street’s m…

U.S. and European stocks surged Friday and the dollar strengthened on hopes that quarterly results at Citigroup marked a turning point in a global credit crunch that has battered markets for months. …

Craig Wong, The Canadian Press April 18, 2008 - 6:41 p.m. Shares of Canadian mining companies with operations in Ecuador were pounded Friday as an assembly that’s writing the country’s new constituti…