Is It Time to Sell Your Stocks and Run For Cover? - When it comes to investing, it's hard to know who to follow these days. Since September 2009, the Vanguard Total Stock Market index fund (VTSMX) is up 33.4 percent. The Dow is approaching 12,900, reaching a post-crash high while so much of the debt crisis remains unresolved in Europe as well as here at home. China's economy is slowing, and signs of inflation may speak of an overheating for ...

Could tiny 'fracture' surges in the stock market be the spark that lights the fuse for financial meltdown? - A University of Miami study ays that ultra-fast changes in stock prices - which the researchers describe as 'fractures' - could offer a key to understanding, and preventing, stock market crashes.

Bangladeshi Investors Badly Hit by the Stock-Market Crash - Nobody in Hafizur Rahman's family asked too many questions when the money they sent home to Bangladesh doubled or even tripled within two to three months. "He was like a prince," says Mirza Golam Sabur of his brother-in-law. So when Sabur was told last May that his 55-year-old brother-in-law died suddenly of a heart attack, he was shocked. Shocking, too, was the discovery that the tens of ...

Investors haven’t been this upbeat since the 2008 crash - Chevreau: Canadian investors haven’t been this positive about the markets since the stock market crash of 2008, according to a Franklin Templeton survey

Stock trading 'fractures' may warn of next crash - A strange feature of high-speed trading could be used to create an early-warning system of future 'flash crashes' in stocks

Sunday newspaper round-up: Stock market crash, Xstrata, Tesco - LONDON (SHARECAST) - The London stock market could slump by as much as 30% - with financial shares collapsing by 60% - if the Eurozone debt crisis leads to a break-up of the single currency.

5 Things You Need to Know Before the Stock Market Opens - BOSTON (TheStreet) -- Another failed effort by Greece to secure a finalized austerity deal leads your quick fix of company, market, economic and investing news for Thursday, Feb. 9. Thursday's 5 Biggest Stories This is a bit like that Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day: Greece can't come to an agreement on austerity measures in order to get bailout funds. CBS Greek fatigue is already setting in ...

Making The Case For Occupy Wall Street - For some, this economy is lots better. We keep hearing that an economic recovery is underway. Yet for those who don't have lots of money in the stock market, there's been no economic recovery.

While Regulators Hammer Away At Stock Market, Participants Suggest A Fix - Financial market regulators have spent the past two years trying to fix everything from inadequate derivatives oversight to stock market flash crashes. It's slow going. While Reuters recently reported that regulators have cracked down on exchanges since the 2010 flash crash, former Senator Ted Kaufman's Chief of Staff recently opined on the Huffington Post that ...

Financial Fire Drill: Tips for successful investing - The Stock Market crash of 2008 - 2009 sent people who'd invested into crisis mode. When it comes to investing, the key is to not have all your eggs in one basket.