Greece has agreed with euro zone partners on how to recapitalize Greek banks after a planned bond swap, but has yet to resolve issues related to labor reform and spending cuts in talks with lenders, the country’s finance minister said on Saturday.
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Don
January was the market’s best month in over a decade as both the S&P 500 and Dow Industrials posted their strongest start to the new year since 1997.However, these gains came on the back of considerably light volume.
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Don
U.S. stocks rallied Friday, following a stronger-than-expected jobs report, showing the unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent — its lowest level since February 2009.The Dow Jones Industrial Average [.DJI 12862.23 
156.82 (+1.23%) 
] finished the session at its highest level since May 19, 2008, while the NASDAQ Composite [COMP 2905.66 45.98 (+1.61%) ] settled at an 11-year high.
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Don
ECB press conference February 9. ECB head Mario Draghi will again be in the hot seat next Thursday, during what would normally be a routine meeting of the ECB‘s Governing Council.
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Don
IPOs: has the Facebook IPO filing sucked the oxygen out of everyone’s room?
It’s hard to put the blame just on Facebook, but the spate of IPOs has been disappointing this week.
Several IPOs came, but not many did well.
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Don
The stock-market rally could push forward in the week ahead, absent any negative surprises from Europe.The surprisingly strong U.S. jobs data, and the growing momentum of a 10-week stock market rally could act as a magnet for buyers, with little in the way of new economic reports in the coming week. Europe, however, remains a wild card. Greece continues to work over the weekend with creditors and is expected to be the topic of European finance ministers meeting Wednesday.
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Don
Goldman Sachs has been battling a seemingly never-ending barrage of negative publicity since the financial crisis.
Many of the wounds have been self-inflicted. In 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission accused Goldman of securities fraud, accusations that the company paid $550 million to settle.
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Don
Trading volume in Gilead Sciences [GILD 54.695 5.385 (+10.92%) ] jumped 260 percent on Friday over its 10-day average, after the biopharmaceutical company reported positive results from an early clinical trial of a recently acquired hepatitis C drug.
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Don
Euro zone governments may have to provide up to 145 billion euros ($191 billion) to Athens under a second emergency loan program for Greece, EU sources said on Friday, 15 billion euros more ($19.7 billion) than previously expected.
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Don
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