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Wealthy Dallas brothers become SEC fraud target
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AP - Brothers Charles and Sam Wyly, born a year apart during the Great Depression, almost always have been joined at the hip.
Stocks are mixed but had best month since July '09
(AP)
AP - WHAT A MONTH: The Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's had their best month since July 2009 and their first winning month since this past April. Strong earnings were behind the big gains.
Stocks end July with big gain; Dow gains 7.1 pct
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AP - Stocks had a fitting end to a choppy July as prices seesawed their way to a narrowly mixed finish. The market still had its best month in a year.
Jobs data, earnings latest test for stocks
(Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. stocks are unlikely to break above a key technical level next week unless monthly jobs data and consumer company results paint a more promising picture of the recovery.
How the major stock indexes fared on Friday
(AP)
AP - Stocks had a fitting end to a choppy July as prices seesawed their way to a narrowly mixed finish.
When Double Dippers become economic party poopers
They're a minority, but a vocal one, and they're hovering like storm clouds over a brittle recovery. They're the Double Dippers — the politicians, economists and analysts who foresee back-to-back recessions.
Recession - Economic - Social sciences - Earth Science - Double Dippers
Stocks close with best month in a year
Stocks had a fitting end to a choppy July as prices seesawed their way to a narrowly mixed finish. The market still had its best month in a year.
Business - Investing - Commodities and Futures - Futures - Advisory Services
Slowing economy faces major hurdles
As the engine of U.S. economic growth slows, two of its main cylinders - job growth and consumer spending - still aren't firing. Until they kick in, the weak recovery is in jeopardy.
United States - Economic growth - Consumer spending - U.S. Economic Cycles - Economic
Recovery lost speed in the second quarter
The recovery lost momentum in the spring as growth slowed to a 2.4 percent pace, its most sluggish showing in nearly a year and too weak to drive down unemployment.
Facebook may postpone its IPO until 2012
Social networking website Facebook Inc may postpone its initial public offering until 2012, Bloomberg said, citing three people familiar with the matter.
Facebook - Social network - Online Communities - Mark Zuckerberg - Initial public offering