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A surprising drop in the unemployment rate and far fewer job losses last month raised hopes Friday for a sustained economic recovery. The rate unexpectedly fell to 10 percent, from 10.2 percent in October, as employers cut the fewest number...

The turmoil in the markets makes it too easy to justify selling any stock these days. Yet, while panic never helps investors, it's still a good idea to play devil's advocate with investments...Here at the Fool, we like to consider...

Friday that November traffic numbers were up 7.7% compared to last year, while capacity rose by 5.3% during the month to 2.64 billion available seat miles, from 2.51 billion a year ago. Load factor also increased by 1.7%, meaning flights...

Don't break out the champagne yet...The Valley's jobless rate took a serious tumble in November, and some economists say we may have hit the bottom of what once seemed to be a near-bottomless recession. Fifty-five hundred more people were employed...

Although finding good companies and holding them for the long term is one of the greatest secrets to success in investing, there are many factors an investor should consider. How well a company treats shareholders shouldn't be least among them....

The US unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped from 10.2% to 10% during November, in a surprisingly encouraging jobless report sparking hopes that the American economy could be close to bottoming out...Wall Street futures soared ahead of the official opening of the...

Federal prosecutors and officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Securities and Exchange Commission were investigating instances of Mr. Rajaratnam receiving confidential Intel sales data from a then-employee, Roomy Khan...Khan had indicated that Mr. Rajaratnam had set up...

Court records show the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a subpoena in June to financier Elliott Broidy, who pleaded guilty Thursday to felony charges that he showered nearly $1 million in illegal gifts on state officials in New York...Broidy's spokesman,...

New orders for manufactured U.S. goods rose in October for the fifth time in the past six months, beating expectations, the U.S...New orders for manufactured U.S. goods rose 0.6 percent to $360.5 billion, compared with a consensus expectation of 0.2...

Ben Bernanke on Thursday urged Congress not to take away the Federal Reserve’s bank supervision powers or curtail its independence even as he admitted that the US central bank had made regulatory mistakes in the run-up to the crisis. “We...