TOP 100 FINANCIAL SITES
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| Best Buy Cuts Earnings Forecast Best Buy lowered its earnings forecast, citing soft U.S. customer traffic in January. It expects weakness in home theater, MP3 players, digital cameras and videogames. But executives said they plan to open more stores. online.wsj.com |
Stocks Fall on Bleak Corporate Forecasts NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks tumbled Tuesday as troubling outlooks for Citigroup Inc. and Intel Corp. again underscored for investors that U.S. companies, led by the financial sector, are getting hit by a weak economy. The major indexes each gave up more than 1 percent, with the Dow Jones industrial average falling more than 170 points.... hosted.ap.org |
Pension Plans Take Chance on Mortgages COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The subprime mortgage crisis has yielded at least one benefit for states: Mortgage-related investments have become so cheap that they are luring some pension funds to buy.... hosted.ap.org |
Japan's central bank retains key interest rate at 0.5% The Bank of Japan (BOJ) Wednesday decided to keep the key short-term interest rate at 0.5 percent at a policy meeting. With the central bank chief post vacant, seven BOJ Policy Board members voted unanimously to maintain the target ... english.people.com.cn |
Coventry Health profit up 3 percent, meets estimates NEW YORK (Reuters) - Coventry Health Care Inc posted a 3 percent first-quarter profit increase on Friday, matching Wall Street estimates, helped by higher membership, and the insurer backed its full-year forecast. feeds.reuters.com |