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This week was all about jobs reports, and after December's employment numbers fell short of expectations, stocks ended the first week of trading in 2011 on a down note. Kenny Polcari, managing director at ICAP Corporates explains from the New York Stock Exchange.

For those of us who live in the Snowbelt, winter has arrived and offices that, just weeks ago, were comfortable are beginning to feel colder as drafts become harder to ignore. If you aren't able to control the thermostat in your office due to cube-mates or a penny pinching boss, don't worry, you...

And so it goes on: the interminable wait for a deal that would make the Beatles music available on the Web. Instead, Apple Corps. Ltd., which manages the Beatles' legacy, and EMI, the band's record label, have announced the release of a limited-edition USB flash drive preloaded with Beatles songs...

Last Friday, regulators seized nine banks, the most on a single day since the financial crisis began more than two years ago. Sure, it was a sign of just how sick many financial institutions have become, but it wasn't all bad news. That's especially true for U.S. Bancorp (USB), the Minnesota-based...

Cables, connectors, adapters; you can't have a gadget these days without needing some kind of extra cord to connect device A to device B. And most of the time retail stores and name brands charge an arm and a leg for the simple pleasure of connectivity. When the AmazonBasics cables begin...

Quadruple Witching Day is upon us, so don't be surprised if the market gets pretty hairy in the last hour of trading. And don't fret, either. No, Quadruple Witching isn't the tag line to the fourth sequel of The Blair Witch Project. Rather, it's a day on which contracts for four derivative...

The $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson set up in October 2008 to buy financial toxic waste, has made the U.S. a $4 billion profit on $240 billion that it invested in hundreds of banks. Never mind that TARP has not purchased any toxic...

As the S&P 500 ($INX) flirts with highs last seen in October 2008, the credit markets have been on edge, and the perceived risk of default is risen to its highest levels in a month -- a time when the S&P was 50 points lower. Since reaching a low point the first week of August, the cost of...

Goldman Sachs (GS) is making headlines again, this time for two macro calls on the economy. Jan Hatzius, Goldman's Chief U.S. Economist, raised his target for GDP growth in the second half to 3.0 percent from a prior target of 1.0 percent. At the same time, Abby Joseph Cohen, the firm's senior...

U.S. Bancorp (USB), the nation's sixth largest commercial bank, reported earnings before the market opened today. Earnings for the second quarter of 2009 were $471 million -- down from $950 million a year ago -- or 12 cents per share, compared to the average of 10 cents per share expected from...