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WALL

BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 14, 2015
Wall St. gains after two-day drop; tech shares rise
U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday after a two-day decline, helped by gains in technology shares.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 8, 2015
Wall St. bounces back on job data, ECB targeting deflation
U.S. stocks bounced back on Wednesday after five sessions of losses, following strong private sector jobs data and as deflation concerns in the eurozone were seen pushing the bloc's central bank into action.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 6, 2015
Wall St. plunges 1%, weighed by commodity stocks
U.S. stocks fell on Monday, dragged down by commodity-linked shares as crude prices fell to fresh 5-1/2 year lows and a strong dollar also weighed on metals prices.
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 31, 2014
Wall St. retreats from record levels; utilities fall
U.S. stocks edged lower on Tuesday, with major indexes pulling back from record levels as the recent rally lost steam, and the trend of modest moves and low volume continued heading into the final trading day of the year.
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 19, 2014
Wall St. gains sharply for second day; Oracle drives tech shares
U.S. stocks climbed more than 1 percent on Thursday, extending a rally from the previous session as tech shares gained with upbeat results from Oracle.
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 18, 2014
Wall St. climbs with energy shares; Fed rate decision looms
U.S. stocks climbed in early afternoon trading on Wednesday as energy sector shares surged more than 4 percent, though investors were preparing for a Federal Reserve statement that may set the stage for interest rate hikes in 2015.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Dec 13, 2014
Wall Street scores in Washington, eyes more anti-reform victories
Five years after President Barack Obama slammed Wall Street "fat cat" bankers, some of the nation's biggest banks this week successfully lobbied Congress to roll back a hotly debated provision in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2014
For whom the Berlin Wall fell?
A quarter century after the fall of the Berlin Wall, democracy and prosperity have not really arrived for most people in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 15, 2014
Eastern Europe's 25 years of transition
Four key ingredients contributed to Central and Eastern Europe's successful transitions after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 11, 2014
China stock market-opening deal sends shares to one-month high; ruble surges
World equity markets hit their highest level in more than a month on Monday, lifted by a deal to give global investors easier access to China's $3.9 trillion stock market and more gains in U.S. equities.
EDITORIALS
Nov 10, 2014
Wall long gone but vacuum remains
The commemoration of the collapse of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, reminds us of the power of the elemental yearning for freedom as well as the failure of our leaders, in the quarter-century since, to build a world that better responds to that driving force.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 6, 2014
Wall St. up after midterm polls, ADP data; Dow hits record
U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday, with the Dow advancing to a record after the Republican Party took control of the Senate in the midterm elections, as expected, and following a stronger-than-anticipated report on the labor market.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 31, 2014
Wall St. up on GDP, earnings; fund yearend lifts winners
U.S. stocks rose on Thursday, boosted by a strong reading on quarterly economic growth and by another round of upbeat earnings reports, including Visa, which accounted for nearly 140 points in the Dow industrials.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 14, 2014
Wall St. drops in late selloff; energy, airlines fall
U.S. stocks dropped more than 1 percent on Monday, with the S&P 500 closing below a key technical support level, as declines in energy and airline shares led a late-day selloff.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 6, 2014
Hewlett-Packard plans to split into two companies, WSJ reports
Silicon Valley stalwart Hewlett-Packard Co , which has struggled to adapt to the new era of mobile and online computing, plans to split into two companies as it looks to put more focus on the faster-growing corporate services market, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Sunday.
COMMENTARY / World
May 19, 2014
Europe's economic Iron Curtain
Twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell, a just-released set of gloomy economic forecasts demonstrate how the countries formerly under Moscow's sway are still painfully connected to Russia and to one another.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2014
Abe adviser says WSJ article on military buildup is false
Etsuro Honda, a key economic adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, denies stressing that one of the main goals of 'Abenomics' is for Japan to build up a more powerful military and stand up to China, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.

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