Jim Cramer Is Bullish on Dow 30 Stocks posted: 4 HOURS 59 MINUTES AGOcomments: 0 filed under: BloggingStocks, Financial Crisis thestreet.com In the first of a weeklong series examining the 2009 outlooks for the 30 Dow Jones Industrials, Jim Cramer of TheStreet.com looks at the year to come for Alcoa, American Express, AT&T, Bank of America, Boeing and Citigroup. Full Coverage Must Read: 0% 0% Share:

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Workers Forced to Take Unpaid Vacations posted: 5 HOURS 53 MINUTES AGOcomments: 0 filed under: Financial Crisis Winnebago Industries, Inc. Unpaid time off from work is becoming more common as employers look for ways to deal with the recession, and the number of temporarily laid off workers recently hit a 17-year high. Full Coverage Must Read: 0% 0% Share:

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Top Health Care and Drug Picks for 2009 posted: 6 HOURS 29 MINUTES AGOcomments: 0 filed under: BloggingStocks, Investing Health care and drug stocks are often viewed as safe investments in a weak economy, and BloggingStocks takes a look at 10 top picks in the health care sector.
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Prosecutors Seek to Revoke Madoff's Bail posted: 6 HOURS 13 MINUTES AGOcomments: 0 filed under: Madoff New York Times / AP Claiming that accused swindler Bernard Madoff violated the terms of his bail agreement, prosecutors -- who say their case continues to grow stronger -- ask that the disgraced former Nasdaq chairman remain in jail until his trial.
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Overseas Strife Lifts Oil Near $49 a Barrel posted: 9 HOURS 14 MINUTES AGOcomments: 0 filed under: Crude Oil Prices Crude oil futures rise almost $2.50 a barrel, pushed higher by continuing violence in the Mideast and a dispute between Ukraine and Russia over gas imports. Full Coverage Must Read: 0% 0% Share:

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Chrysler's Sales Halved in December posted: 6 HOURS 21 MINUTES AGOcomments: 0 Getty Images Leading another month of industry-wide declines, Detroit automaker Chrysler reports a year-over-year drop of 53 percent in December sales, followed by Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. For the second straight year, Ford Motor Co. finishes behind Toyota in annual sales.
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Subaru Defies Awful Year for Automakers posted: 10 HOURS 25 MINUTES AGOcomments: 0 Getty Images Kicking off the auto industry's latest round of sales reports, Subaru of Japan posts a 7.7 percent slide in year-over-year sales for December, but is poised to be alone among the industry's major manufacturers in reporting a sales gain for the year. Full Coverage Must Read: 0% 0% Share:

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Obama Calls for Action on Stimulus Plan posted: 6 HOURS 22 MINUTES AGOcomments: 0 filed under: Financial Crisis President-elect Barack Obama meets with congressional lawmakers to push quick passage of a massive stimulus plan that would include billions in tax cuts for businesses and individuals and a plan to create 3 million new jobs. "We have to act and act now to break the momentum of this recession," Obama said.
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Market News posted: 6 DAYS 8 HOURS AGOcomments: 0 filed under: Investing Market Update 1 of 8 DJIA NASDAQ S&P 500 10yr Note

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Apple CEO Jobs Explains Weight Loss posted: 3 HOURS 43 MINUTES AGOcomments: 0 filed under: Tech News After months of speculation over the health of Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs releases a public letter explaining his recent weight loss. "A hormone imbalance ... has been 'robbing' me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy," Jobs wrote in the letter. Jobs is getting treatment for the condition and says that he will remain on as CEO. The news comes as Macworld gets under way today.
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Mnuchin Deal for IndyMac Is Great Sign posted: 9 HOURS 7 MINUTES AGOcomments: 0 filed under: BloggingStocks, Investing thestreet.com TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says we need the private sector to get involved. Full Coverage Must Read: 0% 0% Share:

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Madoff Scandal Moves to Capitol Hill posted: 27 MINUTES AGOcomments: 0 filed under: Madoff New York Times / AP The House Financial Services Committee hears from the Securities and Exchange Commission's inspector general in an effort to learn how regulators failed to detect Bernard Madoff's alleged $50 billion pyramid scheme.
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A History Lesson for Chicken Little posted: 1 DAY 1 HOUR AGOcomments: 0 filed under: BloggingStocks More From BloggingStocks:
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Last year's unsettling economic downturn and a wariness of the incoming Barack Obama administration have many readers crying doomsday, Ted Allrich says. In his weekly Comfort Zone Investing feature, the BloggingStocks contributor offers the negative nabobs some historical perspective. Full Coverage Must Read: 0% 0% Share:

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Stocks Could Gain 20 Percent in 2009 posted: 2 DAYS AGOcomments: 0 filed under: Investing While no one expects an immediate rally straight to the top after markets were pummeled in 2008 by frozen credit markets and a shrinking economy, analysts are optimistic markets will make strong gains in 2009. DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images

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The 10 Craziest Days on Wall Street 2008 posted: 1 DAY 23 HOURS AGOcomments: 0 filed under: Investing AP The past year was loaded with enough screaming drops and hairpin turns to satisfy the most extreme volatility fanatic. BloggingStocks takes a look at 10 of the wildest days on Wall Street in 2008. Full Coverage Must Read: 0% 0% Share:

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Investor Group Agrees to Salvage IndyMac posted: 2 DAYS 13 HOURS AGOcomments: 0 filed under: Financial Crisis The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says a consortium of executives from hedge fund firms and private-equity houses has agreed to pay $13.9 billion for what was formerly IndyMac Bank, the second-largest bank to fail last year. soKe.flace('money-recent_bank_failures', '618', '600'); var uid = new Date().getTime(); var flashProxy = new FlashProxy(uid, 'http://www.aolcdn.com/_media/modtools/kit_swfpublisher_javascriptflashgateway.swf'); var flashvars = {}; try { flashvars.lcId = uid; } catch (Exc) { }; try { flashvars.outlet_w = '618'; } catch (Exc) { }; try { flashvars.outlet_h = '600'; } catch (Exc) { }; try { flashvars.targetDivId = 'money-recent_bank_failures'; } catch (Exc) { }; try { flashvars.targetAds = 'money-recent_bank_failures'; } catch (Exc) { }; try { flashvars.omniture_tracker = '0'; } catch (Exc) { }; try { flashvars.adrefresh_wrapper = '1'; } catch (Exc) { }; try { flashvars.appswfURL = soKe.fv('http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,entry&id=346458&pid=346457&uts=1230921415'); } catch (Exc) { }; if (typeof(screen_name) != 'undefined') try { flashvars.userName = screen_name; } catch (Exc) { }; var params = {}; try { params.wmode = 'opaque'; } catch (Exc) { }; try { params.quality = 'best'; } catch (Exc) { }; try { params.allowscriptaccess = 'always'; } catch (Exc) { }; var attributes = {}; try { attributes.id = 'outlet'; } catch (Exc) { }; top.exd_space.refresher.ads2Refresh(new Array( 'money-recent_bank_failures', new Array('93245070','300','250','0','I','') )); top.exd_space.refresher.iFrm2Refresh(new Array( 'money-recent_bank_failures', new Array('Placement_ID', '1368391'), new Array('Domain_ID', '992772') )); top.exd_space.refresher.mmx('money-recent_bank_failures', 'http://www.aolcdn.com/_media/channels/ke_blank.html', ''); swfobject.embedSWF('http://cdn.channel.aol.com/cs_feed_v1_6/csfeedwrapper.swf', 'money-recent_bank_failures-swf', '618', '600', '8.0.0', 'http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/swfobject/expressinstall.swf', flashvars, params, attributes); top.exd_space.refresher.launcher( 'money-recent_bank_failures',{ dynamicSlide:[''], size:['456t'], photoNumber:['19'], title:['Recent Bank Failures'], numimages:['26'], baseImageURL:['http://cdn.compuserve.com/'], imageurl:['http://o.aolcdn.com/photo-hub/news_gallery/5/6/567330/1218040113314.JPEG'], credit:['Gabriel Bouys, AFP / Getty Images'], source:['Gabriel Bouys, AFP / Getty Images'], caption:['The FDIC has negotiated the sale of failed IndyMac Bank to a consortium of executives from private equity firms J.C. Flowers & Co. and Dune Capital Management and hedge fund Paulson & Co.'], dims:['http://o.aolcdn.com/dims/PGMC/5/407/269/70/'], showDisclaimerText:[''], disclaimerText:[''], CSS_Title:['#333333'], CSS_Caption:['#333333'], CSS_Disclaimer:['#333333'], CSS_Container:['#ffffff'], CSS_Border:[''], CSS_PhotoWell:['#ffffff'], CSS_photoHolder:[''], CSS_Buttons:['#2ea359'], CSS_BtnOver:['#1c7f40'], CSS_Scroll:[''], topMargin:['0,0,407,269,408,269,0,0'] } ); Full Coverage Must Read: 0% 0% Share:

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