Todays News - Stock Business

Business Insider - NEW YORK — In the face of improving economic numbers, US government bonds seemed like the wrong place to be. Traders fled the safety of bonds and bought riskier investments such as stocks after the unemployment rate Friday dropped to its lowest level .Strong Jobs Report Sends Traders Out Of TreasurysTheStreet.comall 99 news articles .

Why Ford's Stock Surged - All automakers doing business in the US should benefit as the economy continues to recover. But Ford -- and, to some extent, rival General Motors (NYSE: GM ) , which also saw its stock jump on Friday -- is particularly well positioned to reap big gains . .

REUTERS/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY HEADSHOT) Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) gave new CEO Meg Whitman a package of stock options valued at more than $16 million last year, on top of her $1-a-year annual salary, . .

JournalIn the most impressive surge since early last year, the United States added 243000 jobs in January, far more than economists expected. By Jennifer Robison A national jobs report that sent stock markets soaring Friday drew more muted responses in Las .Job growth stuns economists, sends Nasdaq to highest level since dot-com crashSan Jose Mercury Newsall 20 news articles .

By Joshua Freed, AP Business writer / February 1, 2012 Frank Masiello and Joseph Bragandi wear New York Giants football jerseys as they work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. US stocks got a boost Wednesday From solid . .

USA TODAY - | LONDON Feb 3 ( - ) - * US stock index futures pointed to a slightly higher opening on Wall Street on Friday, with futures for the S& P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 all up between 0.1 and 0.3 percent at 1001 GMT.Stock index futures point to slightly higher start (NEWS.GNOM.ES)NEWS.GNOM.ES (press release)all 1,212 news articles .

US stocks traded lower Tuesday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average recently dropped 35 points to 12619, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index fell 1.1 points to 1312, and the Nasdaq Composite index slipped 0.2 points to 2812. Among the companies whose . .

By Adrian Lowery and Hugo Duncan Shares on both sides of the Atlantic soared yesterday on hopes that Britain and the United States are heading for an economic revival. A monthly 'health check' of the UK economy showed it rebounded strongly in January, . .

WASHINGTON - Employers in the United States created jobs last month at the most robust pace since last spring, giving the stock market a fillip as investors saw the data as a sign that the growth momentum of the world's largest economy carried into the . .

The US economy added 243000 jobs in January, bringing the unemployment rate to its lowest level in three years. Alonzo Whitten, 55, of the District, takes inventory of the stock at the soon-to-open Annie's Ace Hardware store in the Petworth area of . .