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2013/1/31
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Tech stocks mostly fell in early trades on Thursday, with Facebook Inc. and the company now known as BlackBerry leading the declines.
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2013/5/2
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Tech stocks mostly rose in early trading Thursday in a session highlighted by Intel Corp.
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2013/5/1
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Tech stocks slipped modestly in early trades on Wednesday, as Facebook FB and Yelp YELP shares declined ahead of their first-quarter reports, due after the closing bell.
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2013/2/26
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Instagram, Facebook Inc.'s FB popular photo-sharing service, now has 100 million users, the company said Tuesday.
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2013/4/3
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Jimmy Fallon will take over as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" next spring, NBC said in a statement on Wednesday.
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2013/4/10
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Family Dollar Stores Inc. FDO said Wednesday fiscal second-quarter net income rose to $140.1 million, or $1.21 a share, from $136.4 million, or $1.15 a share, a year ago.
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2013/4/11
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Analysts at Goldman Sachs on Thursday cut Family Dollar Stores Inc. FDO to neutral from buy and removed the discount chain from its Americas buy list, after second-quarter results came in below expectations the prior day.
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2013/4/2
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Federally-backed mortgage buyer Fannie Mae reported record profits Tuesday morning, recording its first annual net income since 2006, led by better credit results and revenue.
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2013/3/14
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- A bill aiming to spur substantive reform of the government's role in housing finance was introduced Thursday by a bipartisan group of senators.
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2013/2/5
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- FBR & Co.
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2013/3/15
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The Food and Drug Administration has opened a safety review of diabetes drugs from Merck & Co.
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2013/2/25
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The CBOE Volatility Index jumped Monday as U.S. stocks sold off broadly and concerns rose about political stability in Europe.
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2013/2/21
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The CBOE Volatility Index is on track to log its largest weekly jump in 17 months following Wednesday's Federal Reserve meeting minutes and Thursday's weak economic data.
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2013/3/26
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The Federal Reserve on Tuesday cited Citigroup Inc. C for failing to comply with a federal law that requires banks to establish protections against money-laundering but didn't impose a fine.
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2013/4/15
WASHINGTON(MarketWatch) - The Federal Reserve on Monday introduced a proposal that would assess a fee on the largest financial institutions with $50 billion in assets to help pay for the central bank's oversight of big banks.
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2013/4/15
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The Federal Reserve on Monday identified five obstacles it found from so-called 'living wills' big banks submitted in 2012 to identify how they would divided up their assets if they failed.
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2013/4/3
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - A top Federal Reserve official on Wednesday said he is "hopeful" that the Volcker Rule, which is supposed to limit speculative trading by big banks, will be finished in 2013.
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2013/5/3
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo on Friday pushed back against efforts on Capitol Hill to unwind a global agreement on bank capital, arguing that any attempt to oppose the international deal would give big banks around the world an excuse to seek implementation delays from their own governments.
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2013/4/18
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo said Thursday that the so-called "London Whale," incident, where J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
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2013/3/20
TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- FedEx Corp., FDX the Memphis package-delivery major, reported that for the third quarter ended Feb.
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2013/4/4
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Federal regulators on Thursday privately debated which firms outside of banks are systemically risky, according to a statement from the Treasury Department.
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2013/5/6
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Fannie Mae FNMA and Freddie Mac FMCC won't be able to buy interest-only loans, loans with 40-year terms, or those with points and fees in excess of the thresholds established by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's "qualified mortgage" rule, the Federal Housing Finance Agency said Monday.
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2013/4/3
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Fifth & Pacific Cos.
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2013/1/29
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Fifth Third Bancorp FITB was upgraded to an outperform rating from market perform and PNC Financial Services Group Inc. PNC was downgraded to market perform from outperform by Wells Fargo Securities on Tuesday.
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2013/4/23
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Financial stocks bounced back after dipping briefly on a false report that the White House was attacked on Tuesday afternoon.
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2013/4/17
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Financial stocks were down on Wednesday, after Bank of America Corp.
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2013/4/15
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Financial stocks fell on Monday after China reported slower GDP growth for the quarter and the New York Fed's Empire State Index fell for the month of March.
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2013/4/22
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Financial stocks were down on Monday, slipping on lower existing-home sales for March.
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2013/3/18
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Financial stocks fell on Monday before the market opened, as Cyprus planned to impose a new tax on bank depositors as part of the bailout for the country's financial institutions.
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2013/3/12
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Financials stocks fell on Tuesday as both sides of the political aisle in Washington attempt to present a balanced budget this week.
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