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“ Chris Wysopal is the head of a four-iPod family. His wife and two kids all carry the pint-size nano music player from Apple (AAPL), while he uses a 2003-vintage device he got as a hand-me-down from his wife. But source...

“Napa Valley RegisterStocks rise on reassuring comments from Ford CEOThe Associated Press - 9 hours agoNEW YORK (AP) — A stock market reassured by Ford Motor Co.'s assessment of its financial health bounced back Tuesday, regaining some of the ground lost source...

“ Over the last few years, Digg has become Silicon Valley's version of the boy who cried wolf. Like the child who warned local villagers that a wolf was about to attack his flock of sheep, potential buyers of Digg source...

“"The (U.S. business cycle) committee's recession statement confirmed what people have long suspected but were not sure of, and combined with the U.S. factory data, which confirms the gravity of the ongoing recession, stoked worries about how much longer the source...

““Stocks are cheap when valued within the context of a financed-based economy once dominated by leverage, cheap financing and even lower corporate tax rates,” Pacific Investment Management Co.’s Gross wrote in a market commentary posted on the Newport Beach, California-based source...

“ Many Twitter users sent tweets pleading for blood donors to make their way to the JJ Hospital in Mumbai, as stocks were in danger of running low in the wake of the atrocity. Others spread the word about helplines source...

“Modern financial history is a long series of spectacular asset bubbles followed by equally dramatic crashes. Before, during, and after, the question always arises — whether it's stocks, bonds, real estate, or collateralized debt obligations — what is the cause source...

“Remember that E, the earnings, multiplied by M, the multiple, equals P, the price. That’s the price-to-earnings multiple. If a stock’s PE multiple is equal to or less than its growth rate, then that’s a cheap stock, Cramer said. A source...

“General Electric Co. and Caterpillar Inc. lost more than 9.7 percent following a report that manufacturing contracted at the fastest pace in 26 years. American Express Co. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. fell more than 15 percent on Oppenheimer & source...

“The U.S. first entered a recession in December 2007, the panel of economists that dates American business cycles said yesterday. The country’s manufacturing output in November contracted at the fastest pace in 26 years, a report showed. Crude pared losses source...

“But the selling accelerated in the afternoon after the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) confirmed what many have long believed - that the nation is in a recession. According to the NBER, the official body that calls economic cycles, source...

“NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fear that a hobbled banking sector may set off another Great Depression could force the U.S. government and Federal Reserve to take the unprecedented step of buying a broad range of assets, including stocks, according to source...

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