Money Anecdotes

Henny Ray Abrams / The Associated Press, 2009 A trader covers his face in March 2009 while working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

SATURDAY, March 13 — When the stock market declines, do heart attacks go up? That’s what Duke University Medical Center researchers are wondering based on an analysis of data collected during the current U.S. economic crisis.

Here are middle school rankings in the Stock Market Game as of March 11, 2010.

Mixed economic reports held back the stock market Friday, but gains for the week were strong.

Here are middle school rankings in the Stock Market Game as of March 11, 2010. See updated standings every Saturday at Cincinnati.com/business.

How the Dow Jones industrials and other major stock indexes fared in Friday’s trading Dow Jones Industrial Average – Business – Investing – Stocks and Bonds – Stock market index

Mixed economic reports held the stock market to only modest moves Friday but gains for the week were strong. Uneven figures on retail sales and consumer confidence gave investors little new insight into the economy.

CHICAGO — It was the one-year anniversary Tuesday of the day the stock market began to heal from its 57 percent downturn, and a traditional gift on such occasions, appropriately, is paper.

It’s been a year since the stock market started to rebound, and 10 years since the Internet bubble burst. Investors can learn good lessons from both milestones.

Americans regained more of their shrunken wealth last quarter, mainly because the healing U.S. economy boosted stock portfolios. But the gain was less than in the previous two quarters.