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When a perching bird sits on a branch, a special tendon on the backside of the ankle triggers its feet to clasp tightly. Thus, the bird can sleep without toppling off its roost. Investors sitting on a successful stock have a similar tendency: to grasp tightly.  

Stocks fell for a third straight day Friday as a disappointing outlook from computer maker Dell Inc. suggested that an economic recovery could be uneven. The major indexes all had moderate losses, leaving the Dow Jones industrials with a slim 0.5 percent weekly gain while broader indexes slid. The market, which has been shuttling between concerns about the economy and traders' need to find high-yielding investments, is back to worrying about the economy.

Investors seem to need a constant reassurance with where we are in the economic recovery   -Brett D'Arcy

 

Investors can't shake their fears that the economy isn't keeping up with the stock market. Stocks fell for a third straight day Friday as a disappointing outlook from computer maker Dell Inc. suggested that an economic recovery could be uneven. The major indexes all had moderate losses, leaving the Dow Jones industrials with a slim 0.5 percent weekly gain while broader indexes slid.

Investors seem to need a constant reassurance with where we are in the economic recovery   -Brett D'Arcy

 

--The stock market ended a down week with light selling as investors grew uneasy about a rising dollar and spiking demand for the safest government debt. After two strong weeks, investors tried unsuccessfully to extend the market's rally after major stock indexes closed at 13-month highs on Tuesday. Disappointing reports on housing and worries about flagging demand at technology companies sapped strength from the market's eight-month rally.

Investors seem to need a constant reassurance with where we are in the economic recovery   -Brett D'Arcy

 

Concerns about Ukrainian debt took centre-stage Friday on European stock markets. The state-owned Ukraine railway company last week defaulted on a $550 million syndicated loan. Steps are being taken to restructure the loan, however nervousness has set in about Ukraine debt, and sovereign debt generally.  

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Nov. 20, 2009) - THIS NEWS RELEASE IS Hawthorne Gold Corp. ("Hawthorne" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: HGC.V ) announces it has arranged a non-brokered private placement of up to 2,439,024 flow-through shares (the "Flow Through Shares") at a price of $0.41 per Flow-Through Share for gross proceeds of up to $1,000,000 (the "Non-Brokered Offering"). Each Flow-Through Share will consist of one common share in the capital of the Company which will qualify as a "flow-  

The week's trading saw investors, who have been pumping money into stocks because record-low interest rates mean paltry returns for the dollar and Treasurys, change that strategy. Many are now questioning whether the massive stock rally this year really has been justified given the soft spots in the economy, and so they've been quick to retreat to safe harbors like government debt and the greenback. The yield on the three-month T-bill, which moves opposite its price, fell to 0.01 percent from 0.02 perce  

THE Government Service Insurance System has sought the trading suspension of Metro Pacific Investments Corp., in addition to filing a criminal complaint against its key officials, over the worsening shareholders' fight in Manila Electric Co. GSIS chief legal counsel Estrella Elamparo said the so-called call option agreement between Metro Pacific and First Philippine Holdings Corp. was designed to prevent Metro Pacific from conducting an expensive tender offer for the rest of Meralco's shares. "[Metro P

[Metro Pacific’s] purchase of the 6.7 percent of Meralco shares of First Holdings disguised as a loan cum call option is clearly a device, scheme or artifice calculated to circumvent the mandatory rules on tender offer with no other purpose but to defraud and deceive the investing public   -Estrella Elamparo

 

Global stocks slid on Friday as investors cut their exposure to risky assets amid signs of an anemic U.S. economic recovery. Investors sought safe havens ahead of a holiday-shortened week in the United States and in anticipation of the year-end period, which can prove to be volatile. Oil fell below $77, weighed by a stronger dollar, and falling stock prices raised worries about the economy and the outlook for energy demand.

It's been a very good year for a lot of people, and it makes sense that players are going to square up positions today ahead of the U.S. holiday and month-end   -Michael Woolfolk