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Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which began its assault Tuesday night, recorded the biggest opening weekend so far this year.

Standard & Poor's 500 Index closed Friday with another gain, ending with its biggest weekly gain in a year.

David Levy, chairman of the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center, believes in the future of America. He thinks the economy will not only fully recover but also improve its position on the global stage from its current slump.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Pharmasset, Cytori Therapeutics, and Sequenom. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: QuinStreet, CIENA, Finisar, JDS Uniphase, SunOpta, and Westport Innovations.

The bull market that began in March 2009 may be over, warned a report from Standard & Poor’s.

Spot Gold prices rose for the second day running in London on Tuesday, reclaiming half of last week's 7% drop from the all-time Dollar high as world stock markets rallied again with commodity prices.

A Greek debt restructuring would have dire consequences, ECB policymakers warned, with one suggesting the bank would be unlikely to help the euro zone recover from the shock by delaying interest rate hikes.

Jens Nordvig and his team at Nomura International Securities have shorted EUR/SEK in their model portfolio.

S&P downgraded Greece on Monday to ‘B’ on increased risks that Greece will have to restructure its sovereign debt. Furthermore, the ‘B’ rating has been put on negative watch.

With today’s gain, the S&P 500 index has now more than doubled in value from the Mar. 9, 2009 bear market low.

FBR Capital Markets upgraded its rating on shares of Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) to outperform from market perform with a price target of $43.

For over 70 years the United States has been widely considered AAA top-notch benchmark sovereign risk. Standard & Poor (S&P)'s decision to impose a negative outlook now puts this status under question for the first time, reflecting the unsustainable debt trajectory and risks of policy response gridlock.

Several media outlets have decried the Federal crackdown of online poker in the recent gambling indictment in line with the 2006 UIGEA law.

U.S. stocks rose Tuesday, clawing back some of the previous day's losses as positive earnings news helped buoy shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 65.16 points, or 0.53%, to finish near the day's highs at 12266.75. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index added 7.48 points, or 0.57%, to 1312.62 while the Nasdaq Composite gained 9.59 points, or 0.35%, to 2744.97. The gains came one day after the Dow fell 140 points on credit-ratings firm Standard & Poor's decision to lower its ...

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK on Monday - reacting to a 2 year warning on the nation's pristine credit rating - said Democrats and Republicans needed to reach a deal on cutting the nation's long-term deficits ahead of the November 2012 election, cautioning against waiting for the perfect political moment to tackle the problem.

US stocks ended sharply lower on Monday after Standard & Poor’s (S&P) revised its rating outlook on the United States to negative.

Standard and Poor’s Rating Service cut its outlook on the US Government’s long-term debt to negative this morning and the implications are quite resounding.

U.S. stocks advanced in early trade on Monday as anticipation of solid first-quarter corporate earnings buoyed sentiment.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said that it has downgraded its sovereign credit ratings on the Republic of Ireland to 'BBB+/A-2'.

The companies whose shares are actively trading in Thursday's morning session include Ambassadors International, Tesla Motors, Rubicon Minerals, Meritor and CarMax.

Italian automaker, Maserati, is all set to make its debut in India coming April introducing a new generation of luxury cars to the country's evolving auto market.