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...market down sharply on June 15. At the day's close, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index was off 2.4%, with the steepest drops suffered by major banks and commodity producers. Bank of America, the most actively traded stock during the day, saw its price shed nearly 2.8%. The Dow fell 2.1% to close...
June 8 General Motors will be delisted from the Dow Jones industrial average. GM shares then trade, in a limited fashion, on the Pink Sheets, an electronic over-the-counter system for companies that don't meet major exchange listing standards...
...stethoscope to the current national malaise when it alludes, toward the end, to the toxic duplicity of insider trading. There's also a superrich mayor (James Gandolfini) who could be Michael Bloomberg with a bigger gut. But most of the film takes place in a fantasy present, where the Dow is at 11,000 - a relic of that halcyon era of 2008, when the movie was shot. And by emphasizing the cop-killer relationship, the picture loses the original's busy fresco of New Yawk types. Pushing, complaining, invading the space of the movie's stars, they were the graffiti...
...stock has been delisted, dumped from the Dow, and is pretty much worthless. But with government backing, as they say, even pigs can fly. Indeed, just days after filing for bankruptcy, General Motors Corp. is already plotting a path beyond Chapter 11, including the sale of stranded assets and even an offering of new stock...
...excited about signs of life in the economy. Some days it seems there's good news everywhere: home sales ticking up, slower job losses, the Dow turning positive for the year. But all that misses a looming reality. American consumers, whose overspending largely got us into this mess, are still under massive pressure, owing to the record debt they racked up during the boom years. People are unwinding those burdensome obligations - from mortgages to car loans to credit-card debt - as fast as they can, but the process is sure to take years, and until it is complete, the economy...