Tag: Wall Street

Wall Street up as Greek pro-bailout parties gain support

Wall Street advanced on Tuesday, with equities again taking their cue from overseas markets as Greek election polls pointed to support for pro-bailout parties,...

Wall Street scores weekly gains, but sags for the day

Stocks ended their first positive week in four with a down day on Friday as investors were reluctant to buy going into a long...

Wall Street falls 1pc on Europe, Dell

Stocks fell 1 percent on Wednesday, with all S&P 500 sectors trading negative as concerns mounted over Greece's future in the euro zone. Tech...

The market is oversold, but major signs say ‘sell’

Normally a big decline would set up Wall Street for a technical rebound. But that may not be the case next week, even after...

Consumer shares lift Wall Street, but Greece drags

Quarterly results helped boost the S&P consumer discretionary sector index, with TJX (TJX.N) up 7.4 percent at $42.65 and Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS.N) up...

Wall Street unfastens itself from Spanish manacles

Coca-Cola Co (), Goldman Sachs Group Inc () and Johnson & Johnson () all posted profits that beat analyst forecasts and lifted expectation for...

Rally on Wall St to be put to test

The broad index is up 8.6 per cent for the year, closing at 1,365 on Friday. The S&P 500's close was the highest since...

Facebook friends Wall Street with planned $5 bn IPO

Investors came down with Facebook fever after the social networking titan filed to go public and seek to raise $5 billion in the largest...

LA ‘Occupy’ protesters brace for possible eviction

Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters in Los Angeles built make-shift barricades late Tuesday to guard against a feared imminent police action to evict them...

The Wall Street disconnect

It was a telling moment at the height of the Occupy Wall Street protests. John Paulson, the hedge-fund trader who famously made billions betting...

Wall Street protesters march into third month

Occupy Wall Street marched into its third month Friday after protests in several US cities and parts of Europe, with 250 arrests and clashes...

US port shut down by anti-Wall Street protests

One of the United States' busiest sea ports remained closed early Thursday after anti-Wall Street protesters marched on it at the climax of a...

Police fire tear gas at US anti-Wall Street protest

Police fired tear gas and bean bags to disperse hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters in Oakland, near San Francisco, Tuesday evening, police and an...

Al Gore lampoons ‘insane’ Wall Street

Former US vice president Al Gore on Friday said he understood the Occupy Wall Street movement's anger at some of the "insane" elements of...

Wall St demos will lead to West’s fall: Khamenei

The protests on Wall Street and elsewhere in the United States will grow to "mark the downfall of the West," Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah...

More than 700 anti-Wall Street protestors arrested

More than 700 anti-Wall Street protestors were arrested in New York on Saturday when they blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge, forcing authorities to...

Wall Street ends worst week in year on debt stalemate

Stocks ended the worst week in a year as time runs out on Washington to reach agreement before the government loses its ability to...