U.S. stocks gain for third week, near 6-month high
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks closed near a six-month high Friday, extending gains into a third week, as results from Microsoft Corp. and |
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International Business Machines Corp. set off a rally in tech stocks, though disappointment over Google Inc. dragged on Nasdaq benchmarks.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA +0.76% ended Friday up 96.50 points, or 0.8%, at 12,720.48, extending its advance into a fourth day and its weekly gain to 2.4%. That was its highest close since July 21.
The S&P 500 Index SPX +0.07% closed up 0.9 point, or 0.1%, at 1,315.38 -- its highest close since July 26 -- after spending most of the session lower. It rose 2% this week.
The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP -0.06% fell 1.63 point, or 0.1%, to 2,786.70, breaking a three-day winning streak. It rallied 2.8% this week. More
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Bond buyers enjoyed another banner year in 2011, with total returns in all classes outperforming the broad U.S. stock market, and investors continuing to pile into bonds and shun stocks.
The celebrity status for bonds troubles some investors and investment strategists. They sense that this great bond bull market will slow in 2012. Not that sticking with bonds at this juncture is a recipe for disaster, but with more of their nest-egg tied to fixed-income securities, investors need to ask some hard questions.
Start with the worst case — what would an investor do in the admittedly unlikely event where a “perfect storm” collapses the bond market and spikes yields. More
Shilling says new global recession is here
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — For most economists, the main question is whether we will have a new recession. For Gary Shilling, the only question is how big.
Unlike many gloom and doomsters, Shilling is a genial sort who likes cracking jokes and keeps bees as a hobby. But when it comes to economics he’s dead serious: He’s been consistently gloomier than the economic fraternity and consistently right over the past few years. More
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Probe of Chevy Volt fires closed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government on Friday closed its investigation of Chevy Volt battery fires, concluding that there is no defect trend and that electric cars do not pose a greater risk of fire than gasoline-powered vehicles.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also said that it was satisfied with a plan by General Motors (NYSE:GM - News) to address problems that triggered fires in Volts after crash tests.
"Generally all vehicles have some risk of fire in the event of a serious crash," NHTSA said in closing the two-month investigation.
No real-world fires were reported by regulators or the automaker, but the investigation has cast a shadow over GM's heavily promoted bid to lead on fuel efficiency and green technology with the Volt. More
European rating agency to rival S&P, Moody's in 2012: report
(Reuters) - Plans to launch a European ratings agency to compete with S&P, Moody's and Fitch are at an advanced stage and a new private institution could start business as soon as the first half of this year, German businessman Roland Berger told an Italian newspaper.
The founder of consultancy Roland Berger said he hoped a new private, non-profit organization, in the form of a foundation, could be ready in "the first half or the first nine months of the year," according to Saturday's Corriere della Sera.
Berger, who has been lobbying European governments and companies to gather support and financing for a new agency, hopes to have raised the 300 million euros of capital needed from European investors by that time, the paper said. More
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