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Rates on all mortgages fall across the board

Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages fell to 6.20 percent for the week, down sharply from 6.46 percent last week, Freddie Mac reported in its nationwide survey. Bank of Internet reports loss for 1st quarter Bank of Internet...

Quotebox: Retail execs' views on tough sales

Many top U.S. retailers posted disappointing monthly sales on Thursday and some lowered their quarterly forecasts as a global financial crisis spurred consumers to clamp down even more on household budgets.

Wal-Mart, Anheuser-Busch, Cisco among big movers

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Wal-Mart Stores Inc., down 64 cents at $53.49 The retailer said Halloween purchases boosted sales at...

Fed To Reserve Funds: Drop Dead (ETFguide.com)

Thursday November 6, 1:35 pm ET By Max Rottersman HANOVER,NH (ETFguide.com) - But when Reserve filed a one-pager on September 16th, shareholders learned an important lesson. What's a shareholder to think, six weeks later, when...

LOMA Dollars

As the economic slowdown continues, selective buying by LOMAs will have an important impact. In the last election cycle, an activist website called “buyblue” put together a list of favorability ratings for businesses, and...

Office Max swings to loss

OfficeMax swung to a third-quarter loss because of a larger-than-expected charge tied to the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. Naperville-based OfficeMax lost $432.7 million, or $5.70 per share. That compares with profit of $49...

Mobile Ads To The Rescue? Not For A While (at AllThingsD)

There are plenty of people -- from Google on down -- waiting for advertisers to start shoveling money into phone advertising. But it's not going to happen in the next few years, as advertisers stick to markets they already...

UPDATE 1-OfficeMax posts quarterly loss on Lehman note

NEW YORK, Nov 6 (Reuters) - OfficeMax Inc reported a quarterly loss on Thursday, hurt by a hefty charge from a note backed by failed investment bank Lehman Brothers, but the office supplies retailer beat Wall Street...

Beacon Equity Issues Technical Trade Alerts on Recent Analyst Upgrades: ADI, YHOO, DISCA, GNTX,...

DALLAS, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- BeaconEquity.com announces the availability of Trade Alerts on stocks making news today. Investors can view all of the daily trading notes for free by visiting: http://www.beaconequity.com/m...

Looking At The Obama Campaign Through The Digital/Traditional Ad Spend Prism

Barack Obama’s campaign depended a lot on traditional media—such as last week’s highly-rated infomercial. With that in mind, BusinessWeek’s Jon Fine opened his Ad:Tech NY panel on media spending asking agency buyers what that...