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...Tuesday's trading day, the Dow had plummeted 5% to 9,447.11. The other major indices declined as well with the NASDAQ down 5.8%, the S&P 500 down 5.74%, while investors retreated to traditional safe harbors such as gold, which was up $17.10 to $833.80, and oil, up $3.39 to $91.20 respectively...
...indexes fell by 5% or more in overnight trading before ending Tuesday down 4.1% and .85 respectively; exchanges in London, Paris and Frankfurt all opened slumping before winding up 1.7%, .4%, and 2% ahead. Compare that with Monday's 7% drop the Dow Jones and 9.1% slide on the Nasdaq...
Business in Asia is played very much like ice hockey. The big guys - state-backed behemoths, massive conglomerates and supertycoons - almost always pin smaller enterprises against the glass to score the plum deal. So it seemed for Lawrence Ho, CEO of NASDAQ-listed casino operator Melco Crown Entertainment. Less than a year ago, the giants of the gaming industry - Vegas legends Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson, chairman of Las Vegas Sands - had shoved the little-known Ho to the edge of Asia's casino market. But his rivals should have taken note of how Ho, a recreational hockey player, likes...
...happens, the broadest distributions occurred from 1998 to 2001, a period marked by nosebleed stock valuations. The 10-year expiration on those grants is near, and the NASDAQ is still at just half its peak level, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 has barely gotten back to even. Grants made in 2000 alone represent lost value of $150 billion, with virtually no chance of recovery, says Ira Kay, an executive pay consultant at Watson Wyatt...
...Best Stocks are the biggest-percentage gainers with a market cap of at least $1 billion on the NYSE or NASDAQ. Data from Thomson Financial