Fireworks wrap up Wall Street's best week in 2 years

Fireworks wrap up Wall Street's best week in 2 years (Reuters)
Posted: 01 Jul 2011 01:28 PM PDT
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange June 29, 2011. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidReuters - Stocks started July with a bang on Friday with Wall Street scoring its best week in two years on strong manufacturing data that eased concerns about slowing growth.


Posted: 01 Jul 2011 06:56 PM PDT
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn (C) and his wife Anne Sinclair arrive for a hearing at the New York State Supreme Courthouse in New York July 1, 2011. REUTERS/Lucas JacksonReuters - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest on Friday after prosecutors said the hotel maid who accuses him of attempted rape lied to a grand jury and made other false statements.


Posted: 01 Jul 2011 07:17 PM PDT
Reuters - Web hosting company The Go Daddy Group Inc agreed to be bought by a private equity consortium led by KKR and Silver Lake for $2.25 billion, including debt, people close to the situation said on Friday.



Posted: 01 Jul 2011 04:23 PM PDT
Bank of America Corp, former Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis speaks during the Wall Street Journal Deals and Dealmakers conference, in New York, in this file image from June 11, 2008. REUTERS/Chip EastReuters - New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has issued subpoenas seeking new depositions from Bank of America's chief executive and other current and former executives, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the situation.


Posted: 01 Jul 2011 06:39 PM PDT
Reuters - At the auction for Nortel Networks' wireless patents this week, Google's bids were mystifying, such as $1,902,160,540 and $2,614,972,128.

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:11 PM PDT
AP - A federal judge in Georgia rejected claims this week by federal regulators who said investment firm Morgan Keegan & Co. fraudulently sold auction-rate securities to investors, leaving them to hold the bag on $2.2 billion of the debt when the market collapsed in 2008.

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 09:16 AM PDT
US Treasury Department building in Washington, DC. The deadline for raising the US debt ceiling or risk a default remains August 2, the US Treasury said, after speculation that there might be more leeway for politicians to carve a deal.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)AFP - The deadline for raising the US debt ceiling or risk a default remains August 2, the US Treasury said Friday, after speculation that there might be more leeway for politicians to carve a deal.


Posted: 01 Jul 2011 01:56 PM PDT
AP - MONDAY, July 4

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 08:14 AM PDT
Reuters - Eurogroup President Jean-Claude Juncker moved forward a meeting of euro zone finance ministers scheduled for Sunday in Brussels and changed it to a conference call on Saturday, his spokesman said on Friday.

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 11:28 AM PDT
Reuters - Bank of America Corp's decision to resolve $14 billion worth of mortgage backed securities-related liabilities might have boosted its stock and bond prices, but it has put it further behind its peers in the race to build up enough capital to be Basel III compliant.

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 06:57 PM PDT
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn gestures during his bail hearing inside of the New York State Supreme Courthouse in New York May 19, 2011. REUTERS/Richard Drew/Pool/FilesReuters - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest on Friday after prosecutors said the hotel maid who accuses him of attempted rape lied to a grand jury and made other false statements.


Posted: 01 Jul 2011 11:20 AM PDT
Spain's First Vice President and Minister of Interior Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba gestures gives a press conference in Madrid on June 30. Spain's government approved measures to help the soaring number of homeowners, many jobless, who cannot pay their mortgages.(AFP/File/Pierre-Philippe Marcou)AFP - Spain's government approved measures Friday to help the soaring number of homeowners, many jobless, who cannot pay their mortgages.


Posted: 01 Jul 2011 06:22 PM PDT
Ivan Insua buys gas for his vehicle for to a family Holiday weekend in San Francisco Friday July 1, 2011 in Burbank, Calif. The national average now stands at $3.55 per gallon. That's the cheapest gasoline has been since late March. It's still higher for this time of year than any other year except 2008, however.(AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Call it an Independence Day discount.


Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:48 PM PDT
Investor's Business Daily - Will rebounding state and local government tax revenue slow the push to privatize public services?

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:12 PM PDT
In this Feb. 9, 2011 photo, a 2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 is displayed at the Chicago Auto Show, in Chicago.  Falling gas prices brought people back to General Motors showrooms in June, 2011, with the company reporting a 10 percent increase from a year earlier.  (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Gas prices hit a sweet spot for automakers last month. They fell far enough to spur pickup truck sales, yet remained so high that small cars sold well, sometimes just hours after reaching dealers' lots.

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