AP - A federal judge has granted the Securities and Exchange Commission's request to continue freezing the assets of a California financier charged in a fraud case involving hundreds of millions of dollars.
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 AP - European stock markets traded in a narrow range Friday as investors caught their breath after big losses the day before on U.S. jobs data. Wall Street's closure for the Independence Day holiday kept trading volumes exceptionally light.
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Reuters - Toronto's main stock index rose on Friday morning, boosted in part by Teck Resources Ltd's equity sale to China Investment Corp.
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 AFP - The FTSE 100 weakened further on Friday after sliding a day earlier on news of greater-than-expected job losses in the United States.
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Reuters - World stocks fell on Friday after a disappointing U.S. jobs report and a sluggish euro zone services sector survey reinforced expectations that the process of recovery in the global economy would be long and slow.
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 AFP - Europe's main stock markets weakened further on Friday after sliding a day earlier on news of greater-than-expected job losses in the United States.
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AFP - Europe's main stock markets recovered slightly at the start of trade on Friday, with London's FTSE 100 index edging up by 0.09 percent to 4,238.22 points.
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 Reuters - With Wall Street stuck in a range since May, the start of second-quarter earnings season next week could prove to be a decisive factor for determining how much faith investors should have in an economic recovery.
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 AP - The stock market found little to celebrate heading into the long holiday weekend.
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AP - How far the Dow Jones industrial average has fallen or advanced each trading day since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sept. 15. Since Lehman's fall, which touched off a paralysis of the credit markets and deepened the recession, the stock market has gone through an extended period of volatility before kicking into a big rally this spring. The numbers are the closing levels for the Dow:
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 Reuters - Stocks tumbled on Thursday, driving the S&P 500 down to its third-straight weekly loss, as a steeper-than-expected slide in June non-farm payrolls revived caution about economic recovery prospects.
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AP - A dour report on job losses in June sent stocks sharply lower Thursday.
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Reuters - More Canadians will be out of work in 2014 than prior to the recession, even if the economy recovers quickly and expands at a healthy clip for the next five years, a prominent economist forecast on Thursday.
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 AFP - Stocks in London ended the session sharply down Thursday on the back of dire unemployment figures released in the US and in the eurozone, where the rate hit a 10-year-high.
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 Reuters - A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer warned about irregularities at Bernard Madoff's financial management firm as far back as 2004, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing agency documents and sources familiar with the investigation.
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AP - The Securities and Exchange Commission charges the former chief accounting officer at Beazer Homes USA with committing fraud and misleading company auditors.
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Reuters - U.S. securities regulators narrowly adopted a rule on Wednesday that would bar broker-dealers from voting for corporate directors on behalf of their clients unless told to do so.
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 AFP - The London stock market closed firmer on Wednesday as retailer Marks and Spencer reported strong sales and commodity prices spiked.
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AP - The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved rules requiring greater transparency for executive compensation at bailed-out firms and all public companies.
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AP - Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio asked a judge Tuesday to decide in his favor in a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit, saying the company's stock plunge was the result of a telecommunications industry meltdown, not financial fraud.
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