Richard Cohen: Even the Dow Jones Can't Make Obama Cry. 08/09/2011 by Peter Hart. There are plenty of thoughtful pieces–Drew Westen's in the New York Times over the weekend being the most recent one–that try to figure out...
August 9, 2011 6:53 pm / 9 comments
By Tatyana Shumsky Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–Gold soared to a record Monday as investors scrambled to shed riskier holdings in the wake of a US credit downgrade. Standard & Poor's downgraded the US's credit...
August 9, 2011 3:51 am / 3 comments
U.S. stocks tumbled in a Monday rout that sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 5.5 percent, plunging below 11000 for the first time since November, as investors fled from risky assets in the first trading session
NEW YORK — Stocks...
August 9, 2011 1:46 am / 1 comment
The Dow Jones industrial average finished the day down 634.76 points Monday after a full-day sell-off accelerated in the final hour of trading as investors struggled to absorb Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade the
Credit ratings...
August 9, 2011 12:49 am / 1 comment