Markets

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Map of the Market

Map of the Market Interactive treemap of the stock market. View the interactive map.

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How This Bear Market Compares

How This Bear Market Compares The current bear market is already among the worst in history. Here is how it lines up — in losses and length — with those [...]

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UK deficit-buster: Choose your cuts

UK deficit-buster: Choose your cuts Britain’s next chancellor will oversee the start of the most sustained squeeze on public spending in at least 60 years. Without huge tax rises, government [...]

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Unemployment rate by county

Unemployment rate by county More than a year after the meltdown of the financial markets, the unemployment rate continues to edge up providing evidence that the economy, though expanding, has [...]

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Steadier beats mean jittery markets

Steadier beats mean jittery markets Comparison of the annual average beat variance of the songs in the US Billboard Top 100 to the standard deviation of returns of the S&P [...]

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A Year of Heavy Losses

A Year of Heavy Losses A year ago, financial companies were flying high. But as problems in the mortgage and credit markets have grown, the stocks of many Wall Street [...]

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