Thursday, September 01, 2005

Stock Markets Afternoon News 9/1/2005

Stocks little changed but oil shares up

New York City Police officer and bomb sniffing dog stand guard on Wall Street outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York, July 7, 2005. (Mike Segar/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. stocks were little changed on Thursday, but oil company shares surged in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and sharply higher gasoline prices.


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Stocks Mixed As Economic Worries Intensify

President Bush meets with former President George H.W. Bush, right, and former President Bill Clinton, right, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005.  Bush, who will tour the hurricane-devastated Gulf Coast region on Friday, has asked his father, former President George H.W. Bush, and former President Bill Clinton to lead a private fund-raising campaign for victims as they did for last year's Asian tsunami. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Growing economic concerns kept stocks narrowly mixed Thursday as investors weighed troublesome consumer spending patterns and slower growth in the manufacturing sector. A surprisingly strong August for the nation's retailers mitigated the losses.


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TSX up, N.Y. mixed on lower manufacturing activity, Katrina aftermath

Hostess Anja of the Samsung company shows a mini television for terrestrial TV programs at the IFA, the world's largest consumer electronics fair, in Berlin on Thursday. About 1,100 exhibitors from 40 countries show their latest products at the IFA, from Sept. 2. until Sept. 7. (AP/Markus Schreiber)Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - Higher gold and energy stocks were mainly responsible for another session of solid gains on the Toronto stock market Thursday. New York indexes moved lower as investors took in higher gasoline prices and mixed economic data - including a worse than expected reading on the manufacturing sector.


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Wednesday's Wall Street Glance

AP - Dow Jones Industrials

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Dollar holds gains before data

Reuters - The dollar held on to its gains and touched a three-week high versus the yen on Tuesday ahead of key U.S. consumer confidence data that will kick off a busy week of economic releases.

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Nikkei recovers after gains

Reuters - Japan's Nikkei share average rose 0.94 percent on Tuesday, with investors buying exporters such as Toyota Motor Corp. as a weakening of Hurricane Katrina eased pressure on oil prices and helped a recovery in U.S. shares.

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NYSE member arrested in threat case

The facade of the New York Stock Exchange on Broad Street in Manhattan April 20, 2005, where it was announced that the NYSE plans to merge with Archipelago Holdings Inc. A New York Stock Exchange member has been arrested in connection with a telephone threat to a fellow member about the NYSE's deal to buy electronic trading company Archipelago Holdings Inc., New York police said on Monday.  (Mike Segar/Reuters)Reuters - A New York Stock Exchange member has been arrested in connection with a telephone threat to a fellow member about the NYSE's deal to buy electronic trading company Archipelago Holdings Inc. , New York police said on Monday.


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NYSE Member Arrested for Alleged Threat

AP - A member of the New York Stock Exchange was arrested Monday for allegedly threatening another member who sued to oppose the Big Board's takeover of electronic rival Archipelago Holdings Inc.

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Oil's Economic Impact May Be Seen This Week

Engineer Ray Johnson waits as Orange County Fire Engine 21 is filled with diesel fuel at a Mobil station Friday, Aug. 26, 2005, in Tustin, Calif. Oil prices crept up to $67.32 a barrel setting a new high Thursday, Aug. 25, 2005. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)AP - Wall Street has been battered in recent weeks by high oil prices and mounting evidence that rising energy costs — including record gasoline prices — are starting to curtail consumer spending.


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Wall Street wants more competition as NYSE, Nasdaq prep mergers

Canadian Press - NEW YORK (AP) - Philadelphia has a stock exchange?

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