Archive for the ‘stocks’ Category

Wall Street on the Up and Up

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Good news coming from Wall Street today, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 258 points, or 2.9%, to close above 9,000 for the first time since November. Standard & Poor’s 500 index gained 3.2%, and the Nasdaq composite rose 3.5%. Numbers have been rising since this past Wednesday but experts ...

NASDAQ’s Tech Driven Trading Model Outsmarts the Competition

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Financially, 2008 was a year defined by the plummeting stock market, but Forbes Magazine still thought that no company was more impressive over the four quarters than market mogul NASDAQ OMX. The financial magazine’s Daniel Fisher praised the New York-headquartered company for adapting to recently introduced methods of new business ...

What is the S&P 500?

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

A discussion or news report on the stock exchange and investing would not be complete without mention of the S&P 500. The term “S&P 500” is the acronym for Standard & Poor’s 500 index which is a grouping of 500 stocks that have been selected by the S&P Index Committee. ...