Wall Street Journal: Market News

Are Bonds Expensive? Stocks Cheap? Or Both?
After lagging behind bond performance this year, stocks appear historically cheap compared to bonds, offering investors reason to favor stocks, particularly if they are optimistic about the economic outlook. ...

Recovery Loses Momentum
U.S. economic growth slowed in the second quarter to a 2.4% annual rate. Business investment was strong, but imports were a big drag and consumers contributed less....

Wall Street Journal: US Business

Personal Details Exposed Via Biggest U.S. Websites
The largest U.S. websites are installing new and intrusive consumer-tracking technologies on the computers of people visiting their sites—in some cases, more than 100 tracking tools at a time—a Wall Street Journal investigation has found. ...

Obama Pushes Small Business Bill
U.S. President Obama called on Senate Republicans to move forward on small-business bill, while Republicans said the bill would kill jobs. ...

NY Times

From Taxis to Textiles, Italy Chooses Tradition Over Growth
Like much of the Italian economy, the Carlo Barbera factory is struggling and for reasons, academics say, that reveal much about what ails Italy. ...

A Fear That Academics Are Distracted Directors
When university presidents serve on many corporations? boards, governance experts say, someone is getting short shrift. ...

MarketWatch: MarketPulse

Two Florida bank failures bring 2010 total to 106
SEATTLE (MarketWatch) -- Two bank closures in Florida on Friday brought the total number U.S. failures for the year to 106. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said in a statement that Port Saint Joe, Fla.-based Bayside Savings Bank, and Panama City Beach, Fla.-based Coastal Community Bank were clos...

House OKs new standards for offshore drilling
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Companies that drill for oil in U.S. waters would be required to pay 100% of spill-related damages under a bill approved Friday in the House of Representatives. Written in response to the BP oil spill, the bill removes a $75 million liability cap now in place; requires i...

BusinessWeek: Investing

M&A: Takeover Spree May Point to a Pickup
A spate of mergers and acquisitions during the past two weeks may signal the start of a comeback for global dealmaking in the second half of 2010...

U.S. Companies' Cash May Spur Growth, Dividends
The $1.24 trillion in cash sitting in U.S. companies’ coffers may soon be going back to work to stimulate the economy...

CNN Money: Market news from Wall Street

Stocks: Best monthly gain in a year
Despite a mixed performance on Friday, stocks booked the best monthly gain in a year, with the Dow Jones industrial average and S&P 500 both rising nearly 7% in July....

Treasurys rise on weaker GDP
A weaker-than-expected government report on the economy sent investors flocking back into Treasurys Friday, pushing the prices up on U.S. debt and driving yields down....

National Taxpayers Union


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