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The purchase of investment blog Abnormal Returns by Twitter-like Stocktwits may signal a new trend in online finance: It's called the real-time Web. Investors can get an instant snapshot of the sentiment of other investing pros by joining an immediate and constant online conversion.

Charles Schwab will likely come in below analysts' estimates when it releases fourth quarter earnings on Thursday. Among its problems: a slowdown in trading volumes and an acceleration of money market fund fee waivers.

You don't hear too many good pieces of news coming out of Tribune Co. these days, but here's one: The bankrupt media conglomerate has finally reached a long-overdue deal to sell the Chicago Cubs. The sale, reportedly at a price of around $900 million, will help Tribune pay down some of the towering...