Hao Li

U.S. stocks rose on Monday, along with other global risk assets, as investors welcomed a promise from German Chancellor Merkel and French President Sarkorzy to devise a bailout plan for the Eurozone.

On the heels of the French-Belgian bank Dexia breakup, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a promise to come up with a plan by month-end to recapitalize European banks and deal with Greece's debt burden

U.S. stocks will face the third quarter earnings season next week. Some investors are hoping that U.S. earnings will take center stage, take focus off the European debt crisis and potentially prolong the current mini-rebound in U.S. stocks.

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Next week, investors will be greeted with third-quarter earnings.

The U.S. jobs report for September showed the economy added 103,000 jobs, which exceeded economists’ expectations of 60,000 jobs and August’s revised gain of 57,000 jobs.

U.S. financial regulation is capping fees banks can charge merchants for debit card usage. In response, Bank of America and several other large banks have announced their plans to charge consumers to make up for the losses.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the U.S. economy added 103,000 non-farm jobs in September.

Monday's closing was not the bottom of the current downtrend. Instead, the bear market will take the S&P 500 around 975, Douglas Ramsey, chief investment officer at Leuthold Group.

Wall Street clearly cares about the European debt crisis and Friday's session reaffirmed it.

Despite the largely encouraging news coming out of the Eurozone this week, the European Debt Crisis is far from over.

U.S. stocks turned negative as investors reassessed Friday's Bureau of Labor Statics (BLS) non-farm payroll (NFP) jobs report and digested a pair of downgrades from Fitch Ratings.

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Eurozone authorities are discussing ways to recapitalize European banks and the ECB announced on Thursday that it will reintroduce year-long loans to banks. These measures, however, are band-aid solutions that don't address the core issue of the European debt crisis.

U.S. stock futures jumped Friday on a better-than-expected September jobs report, but growth remained to weak to lower the unemployment rate, which remains stuck at 9.1 percent.

In the midst of global market turmoil in the second half of 2011, at least two central banks of developed countries have responded with quantitative easing.

U.S. stocks continued to rally on Thursday’s afternoon session ahead of Friday’s all-important September jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

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The euro has rallied over 100 pips against the U.S. dollar since the beginning of the New York session. Before the U.S. opening, the European Central Bank (ECB) re-introduced two liquidity measures to support the European financial system: one-year loans and 40 billion euros worth of covered bond purchases.

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Heading into Thursday’s European Central Bank (ECB) policy meeting, some investors and analysts expected a rate cut.

U.S. stocks rose Thursday morning as the European Central Bank (ECB) provided support for European banks and U.S. economic data proved better than expected.

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Early in Tuesday's morning session, the S&P 500 Index dipped to a low of 1,074, dropping more than 20 percent from the May 2 high of 1,370 and taking the index into bear market territory.

U.S. stocks have taken a beating in the past few months. Starting late Tuesday, however, the market staged a rally on news that Europe was finally hashing out a plan to recapitalize banks and quiet fears from the European debt crisis.

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U.S. stocks opened slightly down after the release of mixed U.S. jobs data.

Ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded Italian government bonds by three notches to A2 from Aa2 with a negative outlook.