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Will the Fed go below 1%?

Ben Bernanke & Co. are likely to cut interest rates again on Oct. 29. The Fed lowered its federal funds rate, the benchmark overnight lending rate at which banks lend to one another, by a half-percentage point to 1.5% in an...

Competition stiff for gloomiest market forecast

NEW YORK: Could the Dow reach 7,000? "To make a crazy forecast today is not crazy," said Owen Lamont, a former professor at Yale who has studied economic forecasting. Indeed, in an era of 1,000-point daily swings in the Dow and...

Market Snapshot: U.S. stocks end sharply lower after bout of last-minute selling

U.S. stocks end steeply lower on recession worries By Kate Gibson & Deborah Levine, MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks on Monday were slammed again at the close to end sharply lower after multiple fits and...

Politics pays off for Spanish TV

Jorge Ramos, Univision's news anchor, claims he has conducted more one-on-one interviews with the 2008 presidential candidates than any other anchor in the mainstream media. So far, he has interviewed Barack Obama twice and...

Politics pays off for Spanish TV

Jorge Ramos, Univision's news anchor, claims he has conducted more one-on-one interviews with the 2008 presidential candidates than any other anchor in the mainstream media. So far, he has interviewed Barack Obama twice and...

Forecasters race to call the bottom to the market

Could the Dow reach 7,000? "To make a crazy forecast today is not crazy," said Owen Lamont, a former professor at Yale who has studied economic forecasting. Indeed, in an era of 1,000-point daily swings in the Dow and 30...

Lucrative deal in works of CME

Dave Roeder: Financial regulation in Washington is a jumble, as Congress and the bureaucrats kick around ideas for putting freewheeling credit default swaps under somebody’s control. CME Group (CME), owner of the Chicago...