Articles tagged with: Capital Markets Lab
State Farm Financial Literacy Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, August 29-September 2, 2011
Exxon Forms Alliance; Crude Oil Prices Fall Due to Jobs Report
Last week Exxon Mobil Corporation and Rosneft (Russia’s largest oil producer) formed an Alliance that could potentially generate as much as $500 billion of investments …
State Farm Financial Literacy Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, August 22-26, 2011
Bernanke Addresses Monetary Policy Makers At Central Bank Conference In Jackson Hole
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke addressed a group of global monetary policymakers at the annual Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Symposium in …
State Farm Financial Literacy Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, August 15-19, 2011
Bank of America Announces Job Cuts; European Banking Crisis Continues To Worry Investors
The Dow ended Friday with a 172-point fall after losing 419 points on Thursday; this was a losing week for the index. August …
State Farm Financial Literacy Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, August 8-12, 2011
Dow Makes Historic 4-day, Triple-Digit Swings
The world witnessed a roller-coaster stock market last week. One of the most notable headlines was the historic weekly activity of the Dow Jones Industrial Average:
Monday, August 8th: down 634 …
State Farm Financial Literacy Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, August 1-5, 2011
U.S. Loses Its AAA Credit Rating For The First Time In Nation’s History
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded U.S. long-term sovereign debt from AAA to AA+ for the first time in America’s history of …
State Farm Financial Literacy Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, July 25-29, 2011
Agreement On Debt Deal Reached; Markets Expect Deal To Become A Bill
Minutes before making his way to the White House briefing room to announce to the world that a deal had been made on addressing …
State Farm Financial Literacy Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, July 18-122, 2011
Caterpillar Falls Short of Estimates; European Leaders Agree To A Second Bailout Package For Greece
U.S. stocks on Friday interrupted a global stock rally as the market impact of Caterpillar’s disappointing quarterly results outweighed the euro …
State Farm Financial Literacy Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, July 5-8, 2011
U.S. Jobs Report Reveals Worse Than Expected Job Growth In June
The stock market ended the week on Friday with a plunge after the Labor Department’s nonfarm payrolls reported an increase of 18,000 jobs for the month of …
State Farm Financial Literacy Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, June 27- July 1, 2011
Stocks End The Week With Light Volume Trading; Sharp Gains
U.S. stocks endured significant gains on Friday amid a report showing an expansion of the manufacturing sector for the month of June. The Dow …
State Farm Financial Literacy Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, June 20-24, 2011
Greek Austerity Package Continues To Worry; Falling Italian Bank Stocks Overshadowed By Positive U.S. Economic Data
On Friday, the stock market was down as it saw a seventh weekly drop in eight weeks amid continuing world …
State Farm Financial Literacy Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, June 13-17, 2011
Dow and S&P Enter Seventh Consecutive Week Of Losses
In the midst of high U.S. unemployment, pessimism over the U.S. economy, and worries of the possibility of Greece defaulting on its government debt, the DJIA and …
State Farm Financial Literacy Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, June 6 -11, 2011
World Remains Divided Over Next IMF Chief
Ever since the resignation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn as IMF chief, there has been great debate as to who should be his successor. The lack of world consensus over who …
State Farm Financial Literacy Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, May 23-27, 2011
Negative May Jobs And Employment Data
On Friday the Labor Department released economic figures that discouraged the stock market as the S&P 500 and DJIA were both down 1% at opening bell, sending stocks further south …
State Farm Financial Literacy Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, May 16-20, 2011
LinkedIn IPO Soars On Opening Day
Social networking company LinkedIn (LNKD) came out with its IPO on Thursday, May 19th with the stock initially valued at $45 per share. LNKD opened at $83 per share and …
