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It's been a long time since the DJIA reflected just America's smokestack economy. But today's economic rebound is being led so far by manufacturers. And if you plot those Dow components as a group, you'll see they're leading the larger pack by far.

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.

The Travelers represents one of the few moderate-risk/decent growth opportunities around these days.Surprisingly, institutional investors still haven't bid-up The Travelers' share so its stock with PE of 10, looks cheap.

The catastrophe bond market has fully recovered.

The economy may still be in the dumps -- don't let yesterday's early reading on gross domestic product fool you into thinking otherwise. But that hasn't kept U.S. companies from posting bigger-than-expected profits. In fact, four out of every five members of the S&P 500 that reported...

The Federal Reserve's decision to keep interest rates steady and slow its purchase of Treasury bonds sent stocks on a late afternoon roller-coaster ride, as the Dow Jones industrial average dipped, zoomed upward and fell again after the announcement. At the closing bell, the Dow had climbed 120...

What's the opposite of a green shoot? Whatever it is, that's how investors saw today's worse-than-expected jobs figures. The news that June's unemployment rate reached 9.5 percent seemed to kill off a fair number of the economic saplings that bullish market commentators have been spotting...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average of 30 blue-chip stocks will have a couple new members starting next week. General Motors (GM) and Citigroup (C) will exit next Monday, to be replaced by Travelers (TRV) and Cisco (CSCO). GM's bankruptcy Monday explains its departure. Citi is leaving because "the...