U.S. Market News
Keeping up to date with the latest stock market news will give you an edge in stock trading on the stock market. A big part of stock analysis is to keep an eye on the stock exchange and keeping tabs on stock charts and current stock quotes whether it be the Dow, Nasdaq, S & P 500 or any of the other World Markets. To help you improve your stock market investing in today's stock market, below are the latest stock market news articles from the best financial news outlets on the Internet today, such as Market Watch, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Forbes and the many other popular online stock market investing publications.
Latest Market Headlines
4:33 am - Greek bailout hopes rise amid ECB concession
Market Watch - Hopes that Greece will finally strike a deal with its international creditors are buoyed after the European Central Bank reportedly agrees to forgo profits on its holdings of Greek government bonds.
4:21 am - Corrections: Francois Hollande will spark next euro crisis
Market Watch - A Feb. 8 column by MarketWatch misspelled the name of Francois Hollande in the story’s main headline. The story has been corrected.
4:20 am - Europe Markets: Banks, Greece push Europe stocks higher
Market Watch - European stock markets climb Wednesday, led by banks, as investors monitor developments in bailout talks in Greece.
4:11 am - Matthew Lynn's London Eye: Francois Hollande will spark next euro crisis
Market Watch - As French president, Socialist Francois Hollande will be a catastrophe for the European economy, writes Matthew Lynn.
4:04 am - London Markets: Banks, miners boost FTSE 100
Market Watch - British stocks return to positive territory on Wednesday, with gains for miners and banks lifting the index.
3:40 am - Stock futures signal higher Wall Street open
Yahoo - Stock index futures pointed to a slightly higher open for equities on Wall Street on Wednesday, with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 rising 0.2 to 0.3 percent. Walt Disney Co's ...
2:45 am - Asia Markets: Asia stocks rise, with car makers gaining
Market Watch - Asia markets close higher, with sentiment helped by progress toward a Greek debt deal, and with car makers among the notable gainers after Toyota hikes its outlook.
2:14 am - Peter Brimelow: Yields trump capital gains
Market Watch - At this investment moment, dividend strategies are working, writes Peter Brimelow.
1:22 am - Starbucks bets on brand as it enters India
Market Watch - Starbucks Corp., which this past week signed a deal to open retail stores with India’s Tata Global Beverages Ltd., is banking on its brand’s attraction within a young and increasingly affluent middle class to face domestic competition and command......
1:13 am - Metals Stocks: Gold edges up; copper gains on Greece hopes
Market Watch - Gold extends its gains, while copper rallies amid hopes for a deal to save Greece from a messy sovereign default.
1:08 am - China to help first-time home buyers
Market Watch - China’s central bank pledges to support first-time home buyers, marking the first notable softening in tone towards the real-estate sector since a clampdown on prices that began in mid-2010.
11:03 pm - New Zealand: Economic Paradise
Forbes - In Freedom Investing 2012 I analyzed the latest Index of Economic Freedom from The Heritage Foundation. Here I present some of the analysis for New Zealand, the fourth highest country in economic freedom.
9:29 pm - Goldcorp Chairman Cited in Insider Probe
WSJ - Canadian regulators said the chairman of one of the country's largest gold producers helped facilitate a scheme allegedly masterminded by former employee of one of Canada's best-known brokerages.
9:20 pm - Pyramid Cos.' Carousel Plan Rides Again
WSJ - Developer Robert Congel's drive to create one of the largest malls in the country, in Syracuse, N.Y., is back in gear after almost being upended by the economic downturn and a nasty court battle with Citigroup.
9:11 pm - Loan Wrangling on the Rise
WSJ - Increasingly, loan servicers that specialize in distressed situations are agreeing to large principal reductions in restructurings. Take the case of a pair of three-story suburban office buildings on Long Island, N.Y.
9:06 pm - It's Hardly a Ball for 11 Times Square
WSJ - The risks of speculative office building are obvious at the 11 Times Square skyscraper. More than a year after it opened, the 1.1 million square-foot building is about 60% empty and unleased.
8:56 pm - Japan Confirms 'Stealth' Yen Intervention
WSJ - Japan continued to conduct "stealth" interventions in the currency market after its highly publicized yen-selling campaign on Oct. 31, data released by the Finance Ministry confirmed.
8:56 pm - Monti: Europe Growth Policy Crucial
WSJ - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, warned that European leaders must take concrete steps to fuel the continent's economic growth or risk threatening its long-term future.
Reuters Market News
Reuters provides some of the most thorough stock market investing articles on the Internet today. They also provide a huge amount of articles concerning the stock markets, such as the Dow, Nasdaq, the S&P 500 and other World Markets. To avoid only getting the latest articles from Reuters, we decided to give them their own section on our latest stock market news page. Below are all the latest Reuters Stock Market articles to aid you in your stock market investing and stock analysis to help in your stock picks and investment choices.
Reuters Latest Market News
4:45 am - UPDATE 1-Roche digs in for long fight for Illumina
- ZURICH, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche is digging in for a long fight after gene sequencing company Illumina rejected its $5.7 billion hostile takeover bid as inadequate and said it would...
4:34 am - Friedland says Ivanplats to shake up platinum sector
- * Says S. Africa's Platreef to produce PGMs at negative cost
4:33 am - UPDATE 2-Syngenta eyes more earnings growth in 2012
- * Full-year net profit rises to $1.599 bln vs poll $1.566 bln
4:33 am - Euro zone rescue fund sees 'significant' role on Greece
- LONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The euro zone rescue fund anticipates it will play a significant role in steps to set Greece's debt back on a sustainable path and provide more bailout funding, the fund's...
4:33 am - TEXT-S&P affirms rtgs in Greek RMBS Themeleion III Mortgage Finance
- -- We have affirmed our ratings on Themeleion III Mortgage Finance's class A, M, B, and C notes.
4:30 am - TEXT-S&P takes rtg actions in Greek RMBS Estia Mortgage Finance II
- -- We have affirmed our ratings on Estia Mortgage Finance II's class A and B notes.
4:20 am - New Issue-Morgan Stanley prices A$22.2 mln 2018 bond
- February 8 (Reuters) -Following are terms and conditions of a bond priced on Tuesday. Borrower Morgan Stanley Issue Amount A$22.2 million Maturity Date ...
4:19 am - UPDATE 1-Europe to extend Airbus A380 checks - sources
- KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 8 (Reuters) - European air safety officials are preparing to extend checks for Airbus A380 wing cracks to the entire superjumbo fleet, sources close to the matter told Reuters on...
4:18 am - UPDATE 1-Romania PM designate names new cabinet
- BUCHAREST, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Romania's prime minister designate Mihai Razvan Ungureanu named his cabinet on Wednesday, replacing all ruling party ministers in an attempt to make a clean break from...
4:18 am - UPDATE 2-Nissan sees annual profits beating Toyota, Honda
- * Q3 operating profit 118.1 bln yen vs consensus 122.6 bln
