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A volatile calm - the paradox of 2016 financial markets

EghtesadOnline: Traditional measures of volatility at historic lows and Wall Street stocks at new record highs went hand-in-hand in 2016 with traders fretting about bouts of wild stock-price swings and currency flash-crashes.
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Publish Date:21/December/2016 | 21:06

Wall Street little changed in muted pre-holiday trading

EghtesadOnline: U.S. stocks were little changed in muted pre-holiday trading on Wednesday as investors paused, a day after the Nasdaq Composite and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit record highs.
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Publish Date:21/December/2016 | 20:31

Fed official stands by Wall Street reforms, says must complete work

EghtesadOnline: The United States "absolutely must" complete unfinished work ending the too-big-to-fail bank problem that helped plunge the global economy into recession eight years ago, an influential Federal Reserve policymaker said on Saturday.
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Publish Date:04/December/2016 | 12:11

Wall St. slips as banks, discretionary stocks drag

EghtesadOnline: U.S. stocks declined on Monday for their worst performance in nearly a month, weighed down by a pullback in the financial and consumer discretionary sectors as some investors booked profits on the heels of a record-setting week.
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Publish Date:29/November/2016 | 06:07

US retail stock rally leaves few bargains for investors

EghtesadOnline: Wall Street expects consumers to open their wallets a little wider this holiday shopping season but bargains among red-hot retail stocks could be hard to find, especially as profit growth proves elusive for many big names.
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Publish Date:26/November/2016 | 24:09

Wall St. opens lower as health stocks weigh

EghtesadOnline: U.S. stocks opened lower on Wednesday as a drop in the healthcare sector took the shine off a post-election rally that had powered Wall Street to record levels.
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Publish Date:23/November/2016 | 15:04

Wall Street slips, led by healthcare decline

EghtesadOnline: U.S. stocks ended lower on Friday, with healthcare stocks leading the declines, as investors cashed in on a post-election rally and waited for clarity on the next administration's policies.
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Publish Date:19/November/2016 | 05:41

Wall Street ends flat as financials' rise offsets tech drop

EghtesadOnline: U.S. stocks closed little changed on Monday after rising dramatically the week before and a decline in the technology sector offset a steep rise in financial stocks as investors bet on higher interest rates.
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Publish Date:15/November/2016 | 06:17

Asia stocks slide on Wall Street losses, oil drops on inventory rise

EghtesadOnline: Asian shares on Wednesday followed in the footsteps of Wall Street , which pulled back overnight on disappointing earnings, while the dollar inched down from a seven-month high and oil prices extended this week's losses.
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Publish Date:26/October/2016 | 04:28

Wall St. set to open lower ahead of Fed minutes

EghtesadOnline: Wall Street looked set to open lower on Wednesday as investors eyed the finer details of the Federal Reserve's September policy meeting.
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Publish Date:25/October/2016 | 09:17

Asian stocks eke out gains, dollar nears a nine-month high

EghtesadOnline: Asian stocks eked out gains but lacked clear direction on Monday after Wall Street 's sluggish performance late last week, while the dollar hit a near nine-month high as comments from a Federal Reserve official boosted bets of a rate hike by year-end.
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Publish Date:24/October/2016 | 08:54

Regulators taking another look at costs of Wall Street safety rule

EghtesadOnline: Just as memories of the financial crisis are fading and tough new banking regulations are beginning to bite, some current and former regulators wonder whether one of the rules is too much of a burden for markets and taxpayers.
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Publish Date:24/October/2016 | 08:40

Where the Next Crisis Will Come From

EghtesadOnline: Next year ends in a 7. If you’re superstitious or a little loose with statistics, that makes us due for another financial crisis. The biggest one-day stock drop in Wall Street history happened in 1987. The Asian crisis was in 1997. And the worst global meltdown since the Great Depression got rolling in 2007 with the failure of mortgage lenders Northern Rock in the U.K. and New Century Financial in the U.S.
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Publish Date:22/October/2016 | 09:00

Transcripts of Clinton's Wall Street talks released in new Wikileaks dump

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's full remarks to several Wall Street audiences appeared to become public on Saturday when the controversial transparency group Wikileaks dumped its latest batch of hacked emails.
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Publish Date:16/October/2016 | 06:11

Earnings season begins as White House race heats up

EghtesadOnline: The roughly month-long corporate earnings announcement season that kicks off on Wall Street next week coincides with the final, most intense stretch of the U.S. presidential campaign.
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Publish Date:08/October/2016 | 09:01