For all the drama of Friday's stock market drop, the extent of the market's recent decline has been relatively mild. But if past investor behavior is a guide, the market could be in for a more severe decline.
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High joblessness, already a problem for Obama as he seeks re-election, is shaping up to be a particular burden in a handful of key swing states where the unemployment rate is above average.
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Egypt's Salafi Islamists have begun flexing their muscles in the political arena. Salafi militants also have blocked roads, burned churches and attacked members of the nation's Christian Coptic minority.
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Just days after a fractious OPEC meeting, the first signs emerged that Saudi Arabia was planning to make good on its vow to boost oil output on its own, sending crude futures tumbling.
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Auto makers are fighting a California emissions proposal that could effectively require they sell hundreds of thousands of electric or other zero-emissions cars nationwide by 2025.
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Despite a résumé that appears tailor-made for the IMF, Mexican central-bank head Agustín Carstens is seen as a longshot in the contest for the fund's top job.
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Goldman Sachs Group bond trader Fabrice Tourre lost his bid to dismiss a civil securities-fraud lawsuit by the SEC over the marketing and sale of a complex financial instrument tied to subprime mortgages.
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Pandora Media raised the price range of its IPO by $3 and the number of shares by a million, making the maximum offering size $176.4 million.
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Alaska released 24,000 pages of Palin's emails, highlighting her time as governor at a moment when speculation over her presidential ambitions is high.
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Hot tech offerings have blown up on investors in the past. Here's how to stack the odds in your favor.
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A 33-year-old Washington Mutual investor stood up in a Delaware bankruptcy court last December and delivered an argument that changed the course of one of the largest bankruptcies in U.S. history.
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What does it take to inspire people and defeat a bean-counting corporate bureaucracy? An autocrat in the boardroom with an allergy to consensus, says former Chrysler and GM executive Bob Lutz.
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An ambitious plan to create a mini-city of hotels, stores, office buildings, housing and open space on the New Jersey waterfront is close to taking a step forward with the signing of its first retail lease.
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This Father's Day, get Pop that unique trophy bottle that he'll sip and savor until next June. Or at least until the leaves change color.
Equities investors may be feeling squeamish, but Laszlo Birinyi's long-term orientation leaves him positively disposed. How does 60% appreciation for the S&P 500 in the next few years sound?
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One of the latest kooky Internet fads—planking—is moving into the real world in real-time. The trend involves turning one's body into the shape of a wooden plank, often precariously.
The USDA's new plate logo aimed at guiding dietary decisions has appealing visual simplicity, but some say that comes at the expense of useful quantitative information.
The tea party favorite on her start in politics, where she learned her economics, and why she disagrees with Reagan on the War Powers Resolution.
Do robots and Twitter make you nervous.? Growing old is what you're really afraid of.
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In today's pictures, the death toll from flooding rises in China, a disgraced army colonel is murdered in a contract-style killing in Russia, a man looks through rose-colored glasses in Denmark and more.