Wall Street Journal: Market News

Thinking Outside the Stocks
The stock market may be slumping, but other investments, from student housing to parking lots, are surging. Here's how to play them....

As Gold Climbs, So Do the Deals
Gold prices are edging up toward a high, at $1,249.20 an ounce, triggering multibillion-dollar deals by miners doubling down on the staying power of bullion's nearly decadelong rally....

Wall Street Journal: US Business

Withdrawals Continue at Kabul Bank
Afghans continued pulling money from Kabul Bank—their country's largest bank—Saturday, despite assurances from top officials that the lender was financially secure.  ...

BP Moves Forward With Plans for Oil Well
BP has placed a new blowout preventer at the top of the well that unleashed the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and it is moving forward with a procedure to bring about its final demise. ...

NY Times

On Economy, Democrats Face a Lack of Unity
Democrats have yet to find a unifying message to address the economy and are scrambling to come up with job-creating remedies before voters go to the polls. ...

Craigslist Blocks Access to ?Adult Services? Pages
Craigslist, the classifieds Web site, has blocked access to its ?adult services? section and replaced the link with a black label with the word ?censored.? ...

MarketWatch: MarketPulse

Stocks end week with rally over relief on economy
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks finished Friday's session and the week with strong gains, as a not-as-bad-as-feared August jobs report provided some relief from concerns over the slowing U.S. economy. On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 127.83 points, or 1.2%, to end at 10,447....

American Airlines August traffic, capacity rise
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- AMR Corp. said late Friday that August traffic at American Airlines rose 3.1% to 11.51 billion revenue passenger miles from 11.17 billion a year ago. A revenue passenger mile equals one passenger flown one mile. August capacity also increased by 3.2% to 13.61 billion ...

BusinessWeek: Investing

Recession Concerns Ease on Jobs Data
Companies in the U.S. added more jobs than forecast in August, easing concern the world’s largest economy is sliding back into a recession...

Stocks Surge on Employment Report
Stocks rallied, extending the first weekly gain in a month for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, while Treasuries and the dollar fell as better-than-estimated growth in private payrolls bolstered optimism the economy will avoid relapsing into a recession....

CNN Money: Market news from Wall Street

Dow back in the black for 2010
Stocks closed near session highs Friday, with the Dow erasing its losses for the year, as investors welcomed a better-than-expected report on the U.S. job market....

Oil roars into September 'like a lion'
After ending August in a slump, oil prices surged into September, rallying more than 3% Wednesday as the economic outlook brightened....

National Taxpayers Union


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