The 3 Best-Performing Nasdaq-100 Stocks in the First Quarter

By Sean Williams | More Articles | Save For Later

It was generally a great quarter for U.S. indexes all the way around, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 all rising to the occasion and eclipsing their all-time highs.

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Stockman Warns of Crash Of Fed-Fueled Bubble Economy

By Richard Rubin

The U.S. economy is in a bubble inflated by “phony money” from the Federal Reserve and will burst within a few years, warned David Stockman, who was budget director for PresidentRonald Reagan.

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Palm Oil Drops to Two-Month Low as Europe Crisis to Curb Demand

By Swansy Afonso 

April 1 (Bloomberg) --Palm oil fell to the lowest level in more than two months on concern that exports from Malaysia, the second-biggest producer after Indonesia, may decline as Europe’s debt crisis and a slowing Chinese economy curb demand.

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STOCKS NEWS INDONESIA-Bakrie's Visi Media surges on takeover offer

Shares in PT Visi Media Asia Tbk, controlled by the politically connected Bakrie family, jumped as much as 20.4 percent on Monday after the company received takeover proposal from Indonesia-based CT Corp.

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Rallying Stocks Generate Best Return of Quarter, Beating Bonds

By Inyoung Hwang, Joe Richter & John Detrixhe

Global stocks beat all other investments for a second quarter, the first back-to-back outperformance since 2009, as accelerating economic growth pushed equities past commodities, bonds and the dollar.

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Analysis: Insider case against SAC manager may be tough to prove

By Emily Flitter

NEW YORK (Reuters) - To win a guilty verdict against one of hedge fund titan Steven A Cohen's most senior portfolio managers, U.S. prosecutors face a tough task: convincing a jury that a man who already admitted to breaking the law is telling the truth on the witness stand.

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Japan business mood improves as market reacts to "Abenomics"

By Leika Kihara and Kaori Kaneko

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese business sentiment improved in the first three months of 2013, a central bank survey showed, after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's aggressive monetary and fiscal policy prescriptions helped to weaken the yen and bolster share prices.

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Asian Stocks Drop After Japan’s Tankan Misses Estimates

By Jonathan Burgos

Asian stocks fell, led by Japanese shares, after a survey of sentiment among the country’s largest manufacturers missed estimates and an official gauge of China’s factory output expanded at a slower-than-expected pace.

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Bullish Bets Rebound at Fastest Pace in Four Years: Commodities

By Elizabeth Campbell

Investors are boosting wagers on higher commodity prices at the fastest pace in almost four years, rebounding from the least bullish position since 2009, on signs that the U.S. is accelerating and Europe’s debt crisis is easing.

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Euro Drops After Monthly Drop on Weak Economic Recovery

By Kristine Aquino & Masaki Kondo

The euro weakened following a decline last month as economic data signal the 17-nation region is struggling to recover, damping demand for the currency.

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Exxon pipeline leaks thousands of barrels of Canadian oil in Arkansas

By Matthew Robinson and David Sheppard

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil was working to clean up thousands of barrels of oil inMayflower, Arkansas, after a pipeline carrying heavy Canadian crude ruptured, a major spill likely to stoke debate over transporting Canada's oil to the United States.

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EU, IMF resisting Greek bank NBG's takeover of Eurobank: sources

By George Georgiopoulos

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's international lenders have asked Athens to halt National Bank'stakeover of rival Eurobank, worried that the resulting lender would be too big for the state to deal with, two bankers close to the talks told Reuters on Saturday.

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Time to Invest in Micron?

By Sandeep Gupta 

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Where Are These 3 Tech Stocks in Dow's Rally?

Joseph is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.

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Beijing Curbs Second Home Buying as China Cools Property Market

By Bloomberg News

China’s capital, Beijing, banned single-person households from buying more than one residence and increased the minimum down-payment for all buyers of second homes as the government seeks to cool the property market.

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Business-Labor Accord Clears Major Hurdle to Immigration Rewrite

By Kathleen Hunter & Heidi Przybyla 

A deal between business and labor leaders on allocating visas to low-skilled foreign workers sidesteps what probably will be one of many divisions that risk scuttling efforts to rewrite U.S. immigration law.

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Bank of Cyprus’s Customers May Lose as Much as 60% on Deposits

By Paul Tugwell, Tom Stoukas & Georgios Georgiou 
Cyprus may imposes losses of as much as 60 percent on Bank of Cyprus Plc accounts exceeding 100,000 euros ($128,000) as part of an aid deal to stop the country from going bankrupt.

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Investors Did a Run on These 3 Stocks

By Rich Duprey | More Articles | Save For Later

With the terms it placed on Cyprus, the eurozone has its template for future bailouts in place, and depositors in countries with their own shaky finances will be wary about bearing the brunt of the next crisis.

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ETF Insider: S&P 500 Inches To 5-Year Highs

By Stoyan Bojinov | ETF Database 

The tug of war continued on Wall Street this past week as choppy trading proved to be a dominant theme amid a fairly quiet landscape on the news and data front. The bulls ultimately prevailed,

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European Stocks Little Changed in Week on Cyprus Bailout

By Sarah Jones

European stocks were little changed this week as uncertainty in Cyprus and a political deadlock in Italy overshadowed better-than-estimated U.S. and German economic data.

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Cyprus Trading May Resume Tuesday, Exchange Chief Says

By Tom Stoukas 

Cyprus’s stock exchange may resume limited trading on April 2 after closing for more than two weeks as the country faced a banking crisis and ejection from the euro, Chief Executive Officer Nondas Metaxas said.

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Record-Smashing Quarter: S&P 500 Ends Above 2007’s Record Close, Dow Posts Best Q1 Since 1998

By: JeeYeon Park CNBC.com Writer

Stocks closed out the first quarter on a high note with the S&P 500 piercing through levels last seen in 2007 to end at a record high near 1,570 and the Dow logging its strongest quarter in 15 years.

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Online Retail's Secret Weapon: A Storefront

By Katie Little | CNBC 

What's old is new again for some ecommerce retailers.

After bowing to the realization that customers often like to see items in person before buying, a growing number of online retail companies are setting up physical stores, while at the same time redefining what brick and mortar means for them.

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Toys ‘R’ Us Withdraws Plan for IPO First Filed in 2010

By Charlie Devereux

Toys “R” Us Inc. (TOYS), the toy retailer owned by Bain Capital LLC, withdrew its plan for an initial public offering after first filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission almost three years ago.

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Big depositors in Bank of Cyprus to get 37.5 percent equity: source

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Big depositors in Cypriot lender Bank of Cyprus will get shares in the bank worth 37.5 percent of their deposits over 100,000 euros, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.

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Dell’s Growth Slump Shows Urgency of Silver Lake Buyout

By Aaron Ricadela, Chris Nicholson & Serena Saitto 

Dell Inc. (DELL)’s board is predicting another year of lackluster growth in fiscal 2014 as demand for personal computers ebbs, underscoring the urgency behind the company’s decision to be taken private, documents show.

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Bond links: Bond-market supply concerns

By David Waring

FT: There are not enough emerging-market bonds to go around.

Reuters: Same goes for high-yield bonds.

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3 stock picks from the next David Einhorn

By Meena Krishnamsetty

There are two ways of taking advantage of the investment prowess of hedge fund managers. Our research has discovered that the most popular stocks among hedge funds have historically outperformed the S&P 500 index by 18 percentage points per year. This sounds impressive — but we also wanted to see whether these historical results would persist.

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Why bond funds and ETFs are breaking

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Bond investors continued to sweat out the most-challenging climate they’ve faced in years, writes Rachel Koning Beals, as managers squeezed modest first-quarter gains by adding riskier corporate debt and avoiding government bonds. See full story.

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Are You Ready for a Coal Rebound?

Piyush is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.

Those who thought that coal was a thing of the past should reconsider their investment thesis.

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Banks Win Dismissal of Substantial Portion of Libor Suits

By David Glovin 

Banks including Bank of America Corp., Barclays Plc (BARC) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) won dismissal of antitrust claims in lawsuits alleging they rigged the London interbank offered rate.

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Market Close Report: NASDAQ Composite index closes at 3,267.52 up 11 points

Thursday's session closes with the NASDAQ Composite Index at 3,267.52. The total shares traded for the NASDAQ was over 1.54 billion.

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Reluctant Bulls Key for Birinyi Amid Record S&P 500 Rally

By Whitney Kisling 

The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (SPX)’s record rally probably has another year to go as investors give up their pessimism and buy, according to Laszlo Birinyi, one of the first money managers to tell clients to buy before the bull market began.

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Bank of America gets most complaints about mortgages, new database shows

Bank of America is the most-complained-about company when it comes to mortgages, garnering more than 15,000 complaints on issues such as loan modifications and servicing since late 2011, according to information released this week from a federal database of consumer complaints.

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Asia stocks modestly higher after S&P hits record

By Pamela Sampson, AP Business Writer

Some Asia stocks buoyed by calm reopening of Cypriot banks and record high
on S&P 500

BANGKOK (AP) -- Asian stock markets were mostly higher Friday as momentum carried over from yet another record high on Wall Street.

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Amazon to buy Goodreads for undisclosed sum

Amazon to buy book recommendations site Goodreads for undisclosed sum

NEW YORK (AP) -- Amazon.com Inc., the world's biggest online retailer that got its start in bookselling, has agreed to buy book recommendations site Goodreads.

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Update-Moody's assigns Aa2 rating to the Sarpy County School District 27's (Papillion- La Vista) (NE) $4.7 million General Obligation Refunding bonds, series 2013B

Sarpy County School District 27(Papillion-La Vista) (NE)

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Japan Manufacturers See Rebound as Yen Lightens Outlook: Economy

By Andy Sharp & Keiko Ujikane 

Japan’s manufacturers predict a rebound in production this month after the deepest slide since the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake, with the central bank poised to step up monetary stimulus next week.

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Xoom Rang The Nasdaq With A Soaring Debut... But What Now?

Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. (More...)

If the IPO Party left you behind last month, keep XOOM on your radar because this débutant has and will continue to revolutionize its industry.

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Chinese Stocks Pare Worst First-Quarter Decline in Three Years

By Bloomberg New

China’s stocks rose, paring the benchmark index’s worst first-quarter loss since 2010, as gains by utilities countered declines by health-care companies.

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STOCKS NEWS THAILAND-Builders rise as parliament meets on infrastructure loans

March 29 (Reuters - Shares in construction firms rallied, outperforming the broader stock market, reflecting hopes that the parliament would approve 2 trillion baht ($68.29 billion) infrastructure loans.

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Great Q1 for Stocks But ‘Tremendous Risk’ Lies Ahead: Elliott Wave’s Hochberg

By Matt Nesto 

"To the victor go the spoils," New York Senator William Marcy famously said of the benefits that come with winning elections.

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Emerging Stocks Pare Quarterly Slump on Korean Builders, Turkey

By Anuchit Nguyen & Ksenia Galouchko

Emerging-market stocks rose to a two-week high, paring the worst start to a year since 2008, as investors speculated South Korea will announce measures to aid the nation’s property market and Turkey’s trade deficit unexpectedly narrowed.

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