Money Anecdotes

MINNEAPOLIS — Students at Hibbing High School joined BestPrep and more than 8,200 students in 175 schools around Minnesota to compete in The Stock Market Game this spring. Teacher Tom Bittmann is advising students as part of the curriculum at Hibbing High School.

A tough decade for equities prompts whipsawed investors to ask some tough questions.

How is global financial and economic crisis reshaping world politics, finance, banking, trade and outsourcing? Profiting from rising Chinese trade, yuan and stock market? How do over a half million international companies make profits in China?

Economics Arkansas awarded first place, senior high division/Region 3 of The Arkansas Stock Market Game to Michael Huels and his team from North Little Rock High School – East Campus. The team member was Veronika Steele.

The Treasury is suffering from a shortfall of up to £6 billion in tax income because of the collapse in the property market and hundreds of thousands of small investors fleeing the stock market leading to a sharp fall in stamp duty revenues.

Progress creating a government structure to absorb banks’ rotten assets could provide some relief next week for the stock market, which otherwise faces a tough lineup of woeful corporate outlooks, plunging auto sales and big job losses.

SHANGHAI: Apart from family and friends, Chinese investors have at least one more to be grateful for during the Chinese New Year holiday – the stock market.

YOU heard it here first: the stock market is going to rise this year. Business Diary is breaking with market consensus, albeit without risking a single penny on our daring call, on the basis of the so-called Super Bowl Indicator.

If you want to know how the stock market will perform this year, forget the Super Bowl Indicator.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—-Nexity Financial Corporation today announced that it has submitted written notice to the NASDAQ Stock Market LLC of its intention to voluntarily delist its common stock from NASDAQ.