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Top Stories Robert Powell: Health law's retiree perk won't last long If you are among the estimated 1.3 million retirees too young to qualify for Medicare but fortunate enough to have employer-sponsored health care coverage, count your blessings. The next two years could bring a bit of a windfall.
Corrections: AIG falls amid reports of Hong Kong AIA listing A MarketWatch report late Thursday misstated the timing of AIG share losses, which occurred in after-hours trading.
AIG falls amid reports of Hong Kong AIA listing Shares of AIG suffer mild losses in after-hours trading, as reports say the firm is planning to list its AIA unit on the Hong Kong stock exchange, with the offering said to include a record number of bookrunners.
Outside the Box: Equity defies its eulogizers "The Death of the Cult of Equity" is one of the hoarier old clichés to emerge from the financial crisis, writes David Cottle.
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September 3, 2010 12:32 AM EDT
Over the past two months, economists’ expectations turned out to be overly positive. After taking the heat for being too optimistic, the pendulum swung into the bearish camp. The expectations were suddenly too low, and that set the market up nicely for a solid technical bounce. The ISM Index on manufacturing came out on Wednesday, and raised the bar a little bit. Yesterday’s numbers were fairly close to estimates. Weekly Jobless Claim... full story >>