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Daily Data Flow: U.S. Stocks Rise; Right-to-Work Passes in Michigan; Cliff Talks Continue

U.S. stocks rose, erasing losses since Election Day for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, after German investor confidence...

PowerTrend Brief: Prepping for the End of 2012; Mobile Commerce PowerTalk

The first five trading days of December delivered a mixed result for the major stock indices with the...

Daily Data Flow: U.S. Stocks Rise; Top 10 Tech; Europe Backs Monti Reforms

U.S. stocks advanced, after the longest weekly rally in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index since August, as...

“Tis the Season For Emerging Markets”

It was a slow week for U.S. markets with the Dow Jones Industrial average up 0.99%, and the...

Daily Data Flow: Stocks Rise; Jobs Number; US Air AMR Merger

U.S. stocks rose, lifting the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index for a third week, as optimism about better-than-estimated...

Daily Data Flow: U.S. Stocks Rise; Low Participation; Commodities Predictions

U.S. Stocks Rise as Apple Rebounds Amid Budget Talks (Bloomberg) U.S. stocks rose for a second day as...

A Contrarian Bet on a Mortgage REIT with a 15.6% Yield

This week's Dividend Pro recommendation, Apollo Residential Mortgage Inc. (AMTG), is a contrarian bet on yet another high-yielding mortgage...

Making Money Alert: A Fiscal Stalemate and a Browning Apple

I know you probably are tired of hearing about how the fiscal cliff issue is dominating the equity...

Recent Global Bets Are Paying off

It was a quiet week for U.S. stock markets, with the S&P 500 rising 0.58% and the NASDAQ...

Daily Data Flow: S&P Falls; Slow Growth; Fed Disagrees Over Future

S&P 500 Falls as President Obama Holds Ground on Taxes (Bloomberg) U.S. stocks fell, sending the benchmark Standard...