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Amazon’s fourth-quarter sales results weren’t awful, but investors went ahead and punished the stock severely anyway. View full post on Latest stock market news from Wall Street – CNNMoney.com

January offered up an apology to discouraged investors. View full post on Latest stock market news from Wall Street – CNNMoney.com

By Chris Dieterich A disappointing round of economic data weighed on U.S. stocks Tuesday, but major indexes still posted the largest January gains in 15 years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 20.81 points, or 0.2%, to 12632.91, punctuating month’s end with its first four-session losing streak since November. Nonetheless, the Dow’s 3.4% rise in [...]

By Chris Dieterich The Dow was in line for a fourth-straight decline after a weaker-than-expected reading on consumer confidence erased early gains prompted by agreements designed to address Europe’s sovereign-debt issues. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 20 points, or 0.2%, to 12632 in afternoon trading, putting blue chips on pace for their first four-session [...]

Will investors, consumers and politicians be singing “Take this jobs report and shove it!” come Friday morning? View full post on The Buzz – CNNMoney.com

It’s known as “Operation Perfect Hedge”: the government’s unprecedented crackdown on insider trading that’s led to nearly 60 convictions since it began roughly two and a half years ago. And with the charges announced two weeks ago against men from some of the country’s largest hedge funds, it shows no sign of slowing down any [...]

U.S. stocks traded in a narrow range Tuesday, after worse-than-expected U.S. housing and manufacturing data tempered the modest enthusiasm over Europe’s progress on a new fiscal pact. View full post on Latest stock market news from Wall Street – CNNMoney.com

By Tomi Kilgore And Chris Dieterich NEW YORK?U.S. stock futures rose after a landmark agreement from European Union members to tighten fiscal ties encouraged investors and put stock indexes on track to finish January with historic gains. Less than an hour before the opening bell, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures gained 53 points, or 0.4%, [...]

Exxon reported a 2% rise in fourth-quarter earnings Tuesday, even as oil and gas production fell. View full post on Latest stock market news from Wall Street – CNNMoney.com

There’s one group of people who aren’t cheering Ben Bernanke’s announcement last week that the Federal Reserve expects to keep interest rates ultra-low through 2014: people of modest means who live off their interest income. As I’ve been pointing out since 2007, the Fed has eviscerated the income of prudent savers in its attempt to [...]