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    Thursday Look Ahead: Jobless Claims Swing Focus Back to Economy

    Weekly jobless claims should swing market focus back to the U.S. economy Thursday, at least temporarily.

  • Stocks End Off Session Highs; Apple Hits $300

    Stocks pared gains but remained significantly higher Wednesday as the dollar slumped, commodities soared, and a series of better-than-expected earnings reports gave investors confidence in the economy's health.  Cisco and American Express rose, while Intel and JPMorgan fell.

  • Stocks Off Session Highs; Apple Above $300

    Stocks pared gains but remained significantly higher Wednesday as the dollar slumped, commodities soared, and a series of better-than-expected earnings reports gave investors confidence in the economy's health.  Cisco and American Express rose, while Intel and JPMorgan fell.

  • Greenberg: Using Apollo as a Window into Washington Post

    Earnings Wednesday from University of Phoenix parent Apollo Group could be provide a peek at what make be at stake for Washington Post’s investors in few weeks. As controversy at for-profits schools accelerates, some are taking proactive steps to weed out students most likely to dropout.

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    News Startup Ongo Gets $12 Million From Publishers

    Ongo, a Silicon Valley startup planning to launch a website for reading and sharing news from multiple sources, says it received an initial round of funding from some of the country's top newspaper publishers.

  • Stocks Close Lower, Led by Banks; HP Rises

    Stocks sank in the last half hour of trading Thursday top close near the sesssion's lows amid light volume after a batch of economic reports failed to provide traders with enough optimism to continue a September rally.  Walt Disney and GE fell, while Hewlett-Packard rose.

  • Stocks Tumble Ahead of Close; HP Rises

    Stocks sank in the last half hour of trading Thursday after a batch of economic reports failed to provide traders with enough optimism to continue a September rally.  Walt Disney and GE fell, while Hewlett-Packard rose.

  • Sep. 23: Unusual Volume Leaders

    What follows is a look at stocks in the S&P 500 displaying unusual volume in today's trading session.

  • Stocks End Lower as Dow Breaks 5-Day Streak

    Stocks fell Wednesday led by the tech-heavy Nasdaq and financials as the Dow broke a five-day winning streak.  Microsoft and Bank of America fell, Alcoa jumped.

  • Stocks Decline Ahead of Close, Led by Banks

    Stocks were lower ahead of the close Wednesday led by the tech-heavy Nasdaq as the Dow appeared ready to break a five-day winning streak.   Microsoft and Bank of America fell, Alcoa jumped.

  • The New Short: What Steve Eisman's Betting Against Now

    After making the short heard 'round the world with his bet against the subprime housing market, here's what Steve Eisman, one of the key players in "The Big Short," is betting against now.

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    Greenberg: Behind Eisman’s For-Profit Short

    As a main character in Michael Lewis’s bestseller, “The Big Short,” Eisman is best known for getting the subprime crisis right.  But at the time, his attempts to warn regulators were ignored.  This time they’re listening, especially after he capitalized on his role in the book with a report last June at an investment conference headlined, “Subprime Goes to College.”

  • August 23: Unusual Volume Leaders

    What follows is a look at stocks in the S&P 500 displaying unusual volume in today's trading session.

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    Stocks to Watch: Best Buy, VMWare and More ...

    Here's why you should keep a close eye on these six stocks.

  • August 6: Unusual Volume Leaders

    What follows is a look at stocks in the S&P 500 displaying unusual volume in today's trading session.

  • August 5: Unusual Volume Leaders

    What follows is a look at stocks in the S&P 500 displaying unusual volume in today's trading session.

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    GAO Finds For-Profit Schools Encouraged Fraud

    An investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) contends that for-profit colleges encouraged fraud and engaged in deceptive and questionable marketing practices.

  • For Profit Education Gets ‘F’

    Shares of U.S. education companies fell Tuesday on fears that the government may be planning a crackdown.

  • Cisco Trips Circuit Breaker: The Details

    Cisco the latest stock halted for tripping circuit breaker; another failure for our creaky trading system. Cisco has joined Citigroup, the Washington Post, Anadarko Petroleum, and Genzyme, all of which have been halted recently under new circuit breaker rules adopted by the SEC. Here's what happened...

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    Deadline for Newsweek Bids

    Bids for Newsweek were due at 5 pm eastern Thursday into Allen & Company, which is handling the Washington Post Company's sale of the troubled weekly magazine.